Title: Ellis the Modern Primitive
Product review: Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll on the rocks with a twist of inevitable tragedy. The Rules of Attraction is Scott Fitzgerald in the early days -- on crack. No plot here, but plenty of viginettes of college life that climax into a big depression fest. Characters are believably young and savage, souless, seeking after the unattainable. The writing is raw, the details are too close to home. There are few who can portray the Human Beast the way Ellis can, down to the deficating, vomiting, copulating, and overdosing of the 1980's uppercrust college crowd. It's so real, you'll probably read it only once, and after all things considered say that a healthy dose of debauchery is the only way to understand the human condition. Of course it doesn't touch Less Than Zero or Glamorama in this respect, but it's good enough to write home about about.
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