My Interest in Bret Easton Ellis: The Rules of Attraction

This novel illustrates a research finding which I often cited when conducting group therapy with juvenile sex offenders back in the day. When a man looks deeply into a woman's eyes, she thinks, "He loves me." When a woman looks deeply into a man's eyes, he thinks, "She wants to have sex with me."

Mr. Ellis puts us inside of the various heads of his college student characters, and the disparity between their views of reality is hilarious and heartbreaking. There was also a movie. As with Less Than Zero I was a little exasperated by the film. This book is not about young love.