
The Rules of Attraction
by Bret Easton Ellis
Taste attributes: dramacomedyunsavouryheavyrealisticsimpleglossyenclosedemotive & stirringself destruction/implosioncomplex relationshiptroubled leads
Boxlist takeAn intimate, dark novel: grounded and simple. Best if you like close-up stories over spectacle.
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Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: very dark · Weight: balanced · Realism: true to life · Story: simple · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: very confined · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
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3.5 / 5
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About This Book
First Sentence: “And it’s a story that might bore you, but you don’t have to listen, she told me, because she always knew it was going to be like that, and it was, she thinks, her first year, or actually weekend, really a Friday, in September, and Camden, and this was three or four years ago, and she got so drunk that she ended up in bed, lost her virginity (late, she was eighteen) in Lorna Slavin’s room, because...
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- Author
- Bret Easton Ellis
- Published
- 1987
- Pages
- 286
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- Open Library
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