Just like the characters in the book present themselves, bored, intelligent and dozed-off with too much money, I think the content of this book is to be processed between the lines; as the pages drip with cynicism and glibness, the people behind the words develop and function. I’m glad to see Ellis’ writing of collegial sex, drunkenness and drugs through the eyes of obviously intelligent creatures, as opposed to the common way of “politically correctly” finger-pointing at what’s right and demonising what’s wrong.

The three main characters intertwine, lock and disperse throughout, as people do, in a variety of ways. Their personalities are unveiled as I read on, and I actually got a lot through this book. In a way, it was like opening somebody’s diary; thoughts never said, love unrequited and cheap thrills, it’s all here. School daze.

i absolutely loved this book…then later loved the movie. BEE is brilliant!

This book is far better than the movie adaptation (aside from the brilliant Victor in Europe sequence) and is probably more approachable than American Psycho or Glamorama.

my favorite page of this book is the one where it just has lauren’s name on the top and no other text. the best part of the book is when paul and sean each tell about a “date” they had, though the details what happens are totally different. i know that messing around with multiple narrators and demonstrating the subjectivity of reality is nothing terribly new (though very postmodern), i think rules of attraction addresses the issue very well in a causual, real-life way.