false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166110042m/9912.jpg 9912 22 Set at a small, affluent liberal-arts college in New England at the height of the Reagan 80s, <b>The Rules of Attraction</b> is a startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three students with no plans for the future--or even the present--who become entangled in a curious romantic triangle. Bret Easton Ellis trains his incisive gaze on the kids at self-consciously bohemian Camden College and treats their sexual posturings and agonies with a mixture of acrid hilarity and compassion while exposing the moral vacuum at the center of their lives.<br><br>Lauren changes boyfriends every time she changes majors and still pines for Victor who split for Europe months ago and she might or might not be writing anonymous love letter to ambivalent, hard-drinking Sean, a hopeless romantic who only has eyes for Lauren, even if he ends up in bed with half the campus, and Paul, Lauren's ex, forthrightly bisexual and whose passion masks a shrewd pragmatism. They waste time getting wasted, race from Thirsty Thursday Happy Hours to Dressed To Get Screwed parties to drinks at The Edge of the World or The Graveyard. <b>The Rules of Attraction</b> is a poignant, hilarious take on the death of romance. 814440 1987 The Rules of Attraction total:4738|5:935|4:1644|3:1538|2:493|1:128| 4738 16979 6015 297 3 4 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 12 11:54:06 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 12 11:54:13 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 4 false false Tue Mar 20 15:58:22 -0700 2007 Tue Mar 20 16:07:07 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 3 false false Tue May 15 11:55:14 -0700 2007 Wed Mar 04 20:35:57 -0800 2009 I couldn't believe that someone could put together a written work, which not only emanates the characters hyper-sexed-over-zealous-self-conscious-unaware-searching-for-love-not-knowing sadness, but uses...more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 21 07:35:41 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 10 09:23:19 -0800 2009 1 The story is told from a lot of different perspectives, ...more...]]> 1 2 false false Wed Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 12 21:23:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 18 14:44:24 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Jun 24 20:22:06 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 24 20:35:26 -0700 2008
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The Rules of Attraction is more or less an homage to the 80s. It is set at...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 17 17:55:41 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 18:56:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 19:15:23 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 16:51:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 13:48:04 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 15:38:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue May 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 11:50:26 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 14:23:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Jun 24 13:43:01 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 07:49:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 1 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Wed Jun 25 10:06:46 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 25 10:09:48 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 1 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Fri Jun 27 07:45:08 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 27 07:48:04 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 15:28:01 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 24 13:49:58 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 20:10:25 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 13:03:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Sat Aug 15 20:04:44 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 20:09:18 -0700 2009
American Psycho aside, the Bret Easton Ellis's books ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 23 17:55:24 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 08:53:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 true false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 05:56:58 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 11:28:47 -0800 2008
I especially enjoyed the Rashoman-like quality of using multiple narrators to tell the same stor...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=9912