Talk:The Rules of Attraction

message: "The protagonists of Donna Tartt's 1992 novel The Secret History are referenced by 'Stuart'" How can they be referenced if this book was published in 1987? Is it just a coincidence? -Fetology 21:31, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds suspect. I'm removing it until someone can give a reference to prove it. -- LGagnon 21:41, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Secret History

message: Before we start a pointless revert war, can someone explain why that text had to be deleted? The summary box exists so that things like this won't happened. -- LGagnon 17:33, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Deletion

message: Hey, i've never edited wikipedia before, and dont really know what im doing. But considering (IMO) the book is much much better than then film, does there deserve to be more info about the book than the film other than charater overview? More on plot, analysis, etc.
Could somebody but a stub or expand tag on the page? Thanks. =D
70.238.246.3 05:00, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expand? 

message: Seriously, someone needs to do a re-write.  I've only read the book once, so couldn't possibly ;-) but this article is POV, contains original research, is largely unsourced and is about as encyclopedic as....something very unencyclopedic.  Sort it out!! 82.19.66.37 20:36, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Worst wiki article ever? 

message: From the article's 'characters' section: "At the beginning of the novel, it is revealed that Lauren lost her virginity at a party during her freshman year at Camden, where she got so intoxicated that she passed out in bed with another student only to awaken and find herself being raped by a pair of townies."
It is not at all clear that this happened to Lauren. This story is told by an unnamed person, to an unnamed narrator. With the exception of its beginning, all of the chapters in the book start with their narrator's name. The book begins partway through a sentence, and therefore the narrator of this first chapter remains anonymous. The narrator contributes little more than the words "… she told me …" in the first line. Otherwise the chapter could almost read as a third person account (similar to the beginning of Ellis' American Psycho, where Tim Price is introduced in such a way that he initially appears almost the third person subject of the book, and it is a while before Patrick Bateman comes to the fore as the first person narrator).
Given the 'endless cycle' interpretation referenced in the 'plot summary' section, it seems plausible that the narrator is in fact Sean, and the story is the hitchhiker's from the end of the book (which finishes mid-sentence) simply carrying on back into the beginning. Sean comments toward the end of the last chapter, "She started telling me her life story, which wasn’t very interesting …". This potentially refers back to the opening line of the book, "and it’s a story that might bore you but you don’t have to listen …".
Skimming back over the novel now I cannot find anything later in it that implies that the opening story is Lauren's. I might have missed something though—can anyone else spot something that does? The film adaptation portrays the events has happening to Lauren, but its plot is significantly different from the book's.
Dr.Jamf (talk) 13:09, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Characters: Lauren Hynde 

message: The Community page for "The Rules of Attraction" on Facebook (which includes the Wiki article) is showing a different cover by a different author of the similarly titled "Rules of Attraction." I'd fix this myself, but I'm not sure how. This doesn't directly involve Wikipedia but I thought it might be an issue since the article is generating the wrong image for that site, which may indicate a problem.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.117.164.111 (talk) 03:39, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Community Page on Facebook has wrong cover image