The Rules of Attraction
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The Rules of Attraction

by Bret Easton Ellis

1987•Drama•286 pages

Taste attributes: dramacomedyunsavouryheavyrealisticsimpleglossyenclosedemotive & stirringself destruction/implosioncomplex relationshiptroubled leads

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Boxlist takeAn intimate, dark novel: grounded and simple. Best if you like close-up stories over spectacle.

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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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Characteristics

Where this book sits on each taste spectrum

SlowPACEFast
FamiliarORIGINALITYOriginal
DarkTONEWholesome
LightWEIGHTINESSHeavy
FantasyREALISMRealistic
SimpleINTRICACYIntricate
Non-LinearLINEARITYLinear
UnderstatedSTYLEStylised
IntimateSCALEEpic
RestrainedEMOTIONIntense

Genres and themes

DramaComedySelf destruction/implosionComplex relationshipTroubled leads

Subjects

College studentsNew england

Details

Author
Bret Easton Ellis
Published
1987
Pages
286
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