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Established at a little, affluent liberal-arts school in New England at the peak of the Reagan 80s, The Guidelines of Attraction is just a startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic story around three individuals without any plans for future years--and on occasion even the current--who become entangled in a curious romantic triangle. Bret Easton Ellis teaches his incisive look about the children at home-consciously bohemian Camden University and treats their erotic posturings and agonies with a combination of acrid humor and empathy while subjecting the moral vacuum at the middle of their lives.Lauren changes men each time she changes majors and still pines for Victor who divided for Europe weeks before and she might or mightn't be creating anonymous love-letter to ambivalent, hard-consuming Sean, a hopeless romantic who only has eyes for Lauren, even when he results in bed with half the university, and John, Lauren's ex, forthrightly bisexual and whose enthusiasm hides a shrewd pragmatism. They spend your time getting lost, competition from Thirsty Thursday Happy Hours to Fitted To Get Screwed events to beverages in The Edge of the Planet or The Graveyard. The Guidelines of Attraction is just a touching, entertaining undertake the demise of love.