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The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis, Brent Ellis, Jonathan Davis, Lauren Fortgang, Danny Gerard is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Rules of Attraction about?

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 she was a Freshman and had a roommate and Lorna was, she remembers, a Senior or a Junior and usually sometimes at her boyfriend’s place off-campus, to who she thought was a Sophomore Ceramics major but who was actually either some guy from N.Y.U., a film student, and up in New Hampshire just for The Dressed To Get Screwed party, or a townie.” This is the second novel from Ellis, of American Psycho fame. It doesn’t depart much from the style (run-on sentences, sex, drugs, 80’s MTV music videos, more drugs, more sex, some violence thrown in there) of his other works, except that here it works throughout the whole book. Here he gives us a little more to work with, like allusions (Howard Roark!), different narrators, a setting that’s not L.A, and a semi-coherent plot. His tale

Who reads The Rules of Attraction?

It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.

Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Bret Easton Ellis, Brent Ellis, Jonathan Davis, Lauren Fortgang, Danny Gerard
Publisher
Picador
Published
2011
Language
EN
ISBN
9781447212447
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction
Rating
3.71 / 5 (214 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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