Talk:The Rules of Attraction

This is not related to the article about the book, but to the book. I just got a copy of it from the library, and I believe there are some pages missing in the beginning. It starts in the middle of a sentence: and it's a story that might bore you but you don't have to listen, she told me, because she always knew it was going to be like that, and it was, she thinks, her first year, or, actually weekend, really a Friday, in September, at Camden,... since I know Ellis has used incomplete sentences in later works (e.g. in American Psycho), I am not certain this actually is a missing page, but I guess someone here has the book and can inform me about it. Ellipse 22:33, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

It's a good thing you pointed this out, because I forgot to add it to the article. The book begins with only a partial sentence, which Ellis did on purpose. The point is to bring the reader in in the middle of the action, rather than the beginning. -- LGagnon 22:39, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick reply (Wikipedia never seems to stop amazing me by quick replies/updates). I was actually able to use Amazon's Look Inside service to find out before I saw your reply, but thanks anyway.Ellipse 13:01, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Secret History

"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)

Sounds suspect. I'm removing it until someone can give a reference to prove it. -- LGagnon 21:41, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Deletion

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)