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Einfach Unwiderstehlich
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Bret Easton Ellis' zweiter Roman, 1987, zwei Jahre nach dem Debüt "Unter Null" in den USA erschienen, schildert ein paar Wochen im Leben einiger Collegestudenten an der US-Ostküste. Es ist, als würde man bei der Lektüre in einen rasant schnell geschnittenen Film hineingeraten, der aus den verschiedenen Blickwinkeln der Figuren von Partys, Drogen & Sex erzählt. Lauren vermisst Victor, der gerade quer durch Europa reist, und tröstet sich – da Tony gerade kein Interesse anmeldet – zwischendurch mit einem Erstsemestler, der Steve heißt, glaubt sie zumindest. Sean, Protagonist von "Einfach unwiderstehlich" und Bruder von Patrick Bateman, will Lauren, nimmt aber, da die Sache so einfach nicht ist, erstmal mit Susan vorlieb. Und mit Deidre.
"Einfach unwiderstehlich" ist ein Abgesang auf eine Generation von Collegestudenten Mitte der 80er Jahre: keine Vision, nirgends, es sei denn, man begreift den verzweifelten Sex in allen Lagen und Dröhnungsstufen als visionäres Revival von "Love and Peace
"Einfach unwiderstehlich" ist ein Abgesang auf eine Generation von Collegestudenten Mitte der 80er Jahre: keine Vision, nirgends, es sei denn, man begreift den verzweifelten Sex in allen Lagen und Dröhnungsstufen als visionäres Revival von "Love and Peace
269 pages, Paperback
First published September 1,1987
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269 pages, Paperback
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August 1, 2002 by Distribooks Inc
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9783462030006
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3462030000
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German
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Patrick Bateman
October, 1962: Patrick Bateman is born.1980: Bateman graduates from Phillips Exeter Academy.1984: Bateman graduates from Harvard University.1985: Bateman has a short discussion with his estranged brother Sean about his future.1988: Bateman graduates from ...
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Sean Bateman
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Lauren Hynde
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Paul Denton
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Victor Johnson
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Rupert Guest
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About the author
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Bret Easton Ellis is an American author and screenwriter. Ellis was one of the literary Brat Pack and is a self-proclaimed satirist whose trademark technique, as a writer, is the expression of extreme acts and opinions in an affectless style. His novels commonly share recurring characters.
When Ellis was 21, his first novel, the controversial bestseller Less than Zero (1985), was published by Simon & Schuster. His third novel, American Psycho (1991), was his most successful. Upon its release the literary establishment widely condemned it as overly violent and misogynistic. Though many petitions to ban the book saw Ellis dropped by Simon & Schuster, the resounding controversy convinced Alfred A. Knopf to release it as a paperback later that year.
Ellis's novels have become increasingly metafictional. Lunar Park (2005), a pseudo-memoir and ghost story, received positive reviews. Imperial Bedrooms (2010), marketed as a sequel to Less than Zero, continues in this vein. The Shards (2023) is a fictionalized memoir of Ellis's final year of high school in 1981 Los Angeles.
Four of Ellis's works have been made into films. Less than Zero was adapted in 1987 as a film of the same name, but the film bore little resemblance to the novel. Mary Harron's adaptation of American Psycho was released in 2000. Roger Avary's adaptation of The Rules of Attraction was released in 2002. The Informers, co-written by Ellis and based on his collection of short stories, was released in 2008. Ellis also wrote the screenplay for the 2013 film The Canyons.
When Ellis was 21, his first novel, the controversial bestseller Less than Zero (1985), was published by Simon & Schuster. His third novel, American Psycho (1991), was his most successful. Upon its release the literary establishment widely condemned it as overly violent and misogynistic. Though many petitions to ban the book saw Ellis dropped by Simon & Schuster, the resounding controversy convinced Alfred A. Knopf to release it as a paperback later that year.
Ellis's novels have become increasingly metafictional. Lunar Park (2005), a pseudo-memoir and ghost story, received positive reviews. Imperial Bedrooms (2010), marketed as a sequel to Less than Zero, continues in this vein. The Shards (2023) is a fictionalized memoir of Ellis's final year of high school in 1981 Los Angeles.
Four of Ellis's works have been made into films. Less than Zero was adapted in 1987 as a film of the same name, but the film bore little resemblance to the novel. Mary Harron's adaptation of American Psycho was released in 2000. Roger Avary's adaptation of The Rules of Attraction was released in 2002. The Informers, co-written by Ellis and based on his collection of short stories, was released in 2008. Ellis also wrote the screenplay for the 2013 film The Canyons.
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Took me just about all semester to read (because I was busy). The kaleidoscopic narrative lent itself well to thay though— a fun read but pretty depressing too sometimes. I like any book that mentions REM.
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At first glance, this book is pointless. It's an endless loop of drugs, sex, and parties. It has no plot, it begins and ends in the middle of a sentence, there are too many characters strewn about, too many labels, too many songs, too many places. You finish the book and for a moment you think 'wait - what? That's it?' but you realize yes, that is, in fact, 'it'. The apathy Ellis invokes in his readers, shows in his characters, is still masterfully done. He breezes past topics like suicide and abortion which, when you give the way they're treated some thought, make you sick. His narrative choices may seem haphazard with the shifting first person perspective, the shifting tenses (AND THE RANDOM PASSAGE IN FRENCH WHICH I STILL CANNOT UNDERSTAND AFTER GOOGLE TRANSLATE), but it allows him to show how self absorbed his characters are and how differently they view the same things, the same people. He slips in little clues that tie in with events that are mentioned in passing and if you're paying attention to seemingly random paragraphs and details, you get a greater sense of what Ellis is trying to get across to the reader. I am constantly left wanting to read more of his work.
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'The Rules of Attraction' is a dark satire that follows the lives of hedonistic and unsympathetic college students. Centred around an unusual love triangle between its three protagonists, the novel is a multi-perspective tale that depicts different forms of desperation and abrasiveness. Packed with page-turning scandal and sharp narration, the book is a strangely intoxicating read that quickly moves from sensational events to bizarre tragedies. Overall, this novel largely portrays the world as a dog-eat-dog environment, and implies that the idea of being loved and cared about by your peers is totally daft.
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2.5 stars. It wasn't terrible but I couldn't get invested in the story or characters, nothing about it was able to grab me but might reread this on a later date as I have the physical version
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The biggest problem with The Rules of Attraction is that it's essentially a carbon copy of Ellis' debut novel Less Than Zero. It follows a large cast of college kids who are all either gay or lesbian or bisexual (because apparently straight people don't go to college?), who have sex with anything that moves, who smoke cigarettes and do cocaine a dozen times a page, and who wander around aimlessly, failing all of their classes and going to mindless parties all the time. They're all generally just big wastes of carbon atoms who treat life as if it's meaningless and who act like complete deadweights and burdens on everyone around them.
The thing about Ellis' "college kid" books is that you may enjoy the first one, but because they're just lazy pointless clones of each other, you'll almost definitely like each one that follows less and less, and that's what we have here. I liked Less Than Zero, but this is literally just a clone of it with different but equally one-dimensional and forgettable characters. My advice is to pass on this one.
It was interesting that Clay from Less Than Zero and Patrick Bateman from American Psycho had cameos in this one, but those still don't remotely make this worth reading.
The thing about Ellis' "college kid" books is that you may enjoy the first one, but because they're just lazy pointless clones of each other, you'll almost definitely like each one that follows less and less, and that's what we have here. I liked Less Than Zero, but this is literally just a clone of it with different but equally one-dimensional and forgettable characters. My advice is to pass on this one.
It was interesting that Clay from Less Than Zero and Patrick Bateman from American Psycho had cameos in this one, but those still don't remotely make this worth reading.
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Manic and not very likeable. It follows the love (though that is hardly the word) lives of a group of students at a New England university in 1985. It opens mid sentence and unfolds in frantic chunks, focusing on different characters. It's certainly frank about sex and drugs etc, but it's not as funny as it seems to think; my overriding impression is that of a precocious child trying to shock - so what? Still, an interesting contrast to the exaggerated naïveté of Starter for Ten A Novel.
In Ellis' defence, he does warn you. It opens with a Tim O'Brien quote which sums it up very well: "The facts, even when beaded on a chain, still did not have real order. Events did not flow. The facts were separate and haphazard and random even as they happened, episodic, broken, no smooth transitions, no sense of unfolding from prior events."
In Ellis' defence, he does warn you. It opens with a Tim O'Brien quote which sums it up very well: "The facts, even when beaded on a chain, still did not have real order. Events did not flow. The facts were separate and haphazard and random even as they happened, episodic, broken, no smooth transitions, no sense of unfolding from prior events."
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Der 2. Roman von BEE nach "Unter Null". Hier bekommt man ein üppiges Collegestudentenleben mit Partys, Sex und Drogen Mitte 80-er. Ein bisschen "Unter Null"-Vibes. Nur war "Unter Null" frischer, krasser und schonungsloser.
Unter ganz viel Personal, das entweder blau oder zugedröhnt (oder auch beides) ist, und wo jeder mit jedem getrieben hat, könnte man im Endeffekt 3 Figuren herauskristallisieren, aus dem Blickwinkel derer wir dieses Leben beobachten dürfen.
Da ist Paul, der in Mitchell verliebt ist. Michelle geht aber mit Susan aus. Und so lässt sich Paul auf die Bezieung mit Sean ein. Sean ist Bruder von Patrick Bateman. Sean steht total auf Lauren, mit der er später auch so eine Art wie Beziehung hat. Lauren vermisst Viktor, der sich in Europa treibt und sie nicht zurückruft. Sie hält die Einsamkeit nicht aus und lässt sich auf eine Affäre mit einem Erstsemestler ein, dann auf die mit dem Freund ihrer Freundin, dann auf die Beziehung mit Sean...
Ja, ich konnte selbst irgendwann nicht mehr durchblicken, wer mit wem. Es ist aber auch irrelevant, denn man ist gewohnt, dass BEE unter ganzem Sodom und Gomorra andere Themen versteckt. Hier geht es wieder um die tiefe Einsamkeit, Sehnsucht nach Liebe, gleichzeitig um die Angst vor der Bindung, der Zukunft und die Unwissenheit, was diese betrifft. Es geht auch um Selbstfindung/-verständnis: Was will man? Wer ist man? Wer will man sein? Man hält sich jedoch nicht mit der Suche nach den Antworten auf. Man zieht lieber einen Pot und man geht zu einer Bums-Klamotten-Party, um wenigstens für eine Nacht (oder paar Stunden) nicht alleine zu sein.
Wie ich schon erwähnt habe, fand ich "Unter Null" stärker. Nichtsdestotrotz ist dieses Buch für BEE-Fans ein Muss. Und ja, Clay und Patrick tauchen auch hier kurz auf:)
Unter ganz viel Personal, das entweder blau oder zugedröhnt (oder auch beides) ist, und wo jeder mit jedem getrieben hat, könnte man im Endeffekt 3 Figuren herauskristallisieren, aus dem Blickwinkel derer wir dieses Leben beobachten dürfen.
Da ist Paul, der in Mitchell verliebt ist. Michelle geht aber mit Susan aus. Und so lässt sich Paul auf die Bezieung mit Sean ein. Sean ist Bruder von Patrick Bateman. Sean steht total auf Lauren, mit der er später auch so eine Art wie Beziehung hat. Lauren vermisst Viktor, der sich in Europa treibt und sie nicht zurückruft. Sie hält die Einsamkeit nicht aus und lässt sich auf eine Affäre mit einem Erstsemestler ein, dann auf die mit dem Freund ihrer Freundin, dann auf die Beziehung mit Sean...
Ja, ich konnte selbst irgendwann nicht mehr durchblicken, wer mit wem. Es ist aber auch irrelevant, denn man ist gewohnt, dass BEE unter ganzem Sodom und Gomorra andere Themen versteckt. Hier geht es wieder um die tiefe Einsamkeit, Sehnsucht nach Liebe, gleichzeitig um die Angst vor der Bindung, der Zukunft und die Unwissenheit, was diese betrifft. Es geht auch um Selbstfindung/-verständnis: Was will man? Wer ist man? Wer will man sein? Man hält sich jedoch nicht mit der Suche nach den Antworten auf. Man zieht lieber einen Pot und man geht zu einer Bums-Klamotten-Party, um wenigstens für eine Nacht (oder paar Stunden) nicht alleine zu sein.
Wie ich schon erwähnt habe, fand ich "Unter Null" stärker. Nichtsdestotrotz ist dieses Buch für BEE-Fans ein Muss. Und ja, Clay und Patrick tauchen auch hier kurz auf:)
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