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The Rules of Attraction
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From Ellis, Bret Easton
This report was last updated 2/15/2022.
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 457 Ratings, we counted 171 Reviews available on their site.
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".
Report Card
Fail Overall Grade
WARN
Unverified Purchases

WARN
Brand Repeats

WARN
Suspicious Reviewers

WARN
Phrase Repetition

PASS
Rating Trend

PASS
Word Count Comparison

PASS
Overlapping Review History

PASS
Reviewer Participation

PASS
Reviewer Ease

PASS
Incentivized Reviews

PASS
Deleted Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews
This was an original hardcover copy, clean, perfect, not one ... [Go to full review]
Aug 17, 2017
100%
TRUST
TRUST
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Verified Purchaser
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Easy Grader (avg. rating: 5.0)
Least Trusted Reviews
Bret Easton Ellis is a master writer. I think that ... [Go to full review]
Feb 21, 2002
0%
TRUST
TRUST
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Unverified Purchaser
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One-Hit Wonder
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Never-Verified Reviewer
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Overrepresented Participation (posted 1 Review)
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Easy Grader (avg. rating: 5.0)
Analysis Details
Warn
Unverified Purchases

105 of the 171 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. While this is a higher percentage of unverified purchases than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the unverified purchases and verified purchases isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
Unverified purchases may be the result of Kindle Unlimited readers, buyers who didn't pay full price, or reviewers who did not purchase the product at Amazon. Read more about our Unverified Purchases test.
Warn
Brand Repeats

Brand Loyalists
4 of the 171 reviewers have reviewed multiple products but half or more of their reviews are for this brand. While this is more Brand Loyalists than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the Brand Loyalists and non-loyalists isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
Warn
Suspicious Reviewers

Never-Verified Reviewers
61 of the 171 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. While this is more Never-Verified Reviewers than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the Never-Verified Reviewers and reviewers who have written at least one verified purchase review isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
Take-Back Reviewers
52 of the 171 reviewers have had at least one of their past reviews for another product deleted. While this is more Take-Back Reviewers than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the Take-Back Reviewers and reviewers who don't have any deleted reviews in their history isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
Warn
Phrase Repetition

Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.
Common Phrases in Reviews:
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2 reviews
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(5.0/5)
2 reviews
(5.0/5)
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30 reviews
(4.1/5)
(4.1/5)
2 reviews
(5.0/5)
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10 reviews
(4.5/5)
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9 reviews
(4.2/5)
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2 reviews
(5.0/5)
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Common Phrases in Titles:
4 reviews
(3.5/5)
(3.5/5)
61 of the 171 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is an excessively large percentage which may indicate unnatural reviews.
Pass
Rating Trend

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- 2%
- Created over 2 days
We counted 171 reviews for this product over the span of 8,787 days, an average of 0.0 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 1 or fewer reviews on any given day.
However, we see the following 2 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 4 reviews were created on just 2 days. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Pass
Word Count Comparison

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- 25%
- Have an overrepresented word count
In the graph above, we can see the distribution of review word counts for this product and the expected distribution for this category. We see the following 1 group with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 42 reviews (or 25%) are within an overrepresented word count group. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Pass
Overlapping Review History

Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
22% also reviewed:
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
11% also reviewed:
Fight Club 2 (Graphic Novel) by Chuck Palahniuk
7% also reviewed:
American Psycho (Uncut Version) (Killer... by LIONS GATE HOME ENT.
7% also reviewed:
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
6% also reviewed:
Less Than Zero by TCFHE
5% also reviewed:
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
5% also reviewed:
American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition: A... by Neil Gaiman
5% also reviewed:
Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales by Stephen King
5% also reviewed:
The Road by Vintage Books
53 of the 171 reviewers have substantial overlapping product review history. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Pass
Reviewer Participation

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- 29%
- From reviewers with an overrepresented participation
We see the following 1 participation group with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 50 reviewers (or 29%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Pass
Reviewer Ease

The ease score is the average rating for all reviews that a given reviewer submits. The average ease score for reviewers of this product is 4.1, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.3.
4.1 Product's Average Ease Score
4.3 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Pass
Incentivized Reviews

On Oct 3, 2016, Amazon prohibited incentivized reviews, however we still test for them since there are still millions in our dataset.
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- 0%
- Admitted to receiving an incentive
We didn't detect any reviews that used language indicating they were incentivized.
Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.
Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.
Pass
Deleted Reviews

- 0
- Reviews have been deleted
We have not discovered any deleted reviews for this product.
There are a few limitations to keep in mind regarding the Deleted Reviews test:
There are a few limitations to keep in mind regarding the Deleted Reviews test:
- We don't have a magic ability to collect every single deleted review; we can only identify reviews as deleted if we collect them on one date and then notice they are no longer visible on a subsequent date.
- We have no information on reviews that were never published in the first place.
- We also don't know why these reviews were removed. It could be action from the platform, personal decision by the review author, part of an entire account closure, even some data error on our part, etc.