I read this book for Banned Books Week. I can absolutely understand why it was challenged. I can't even think of how to write a proper review about it. I just want to throw out expletives and wild hand gestures. Bateman scared the shit out of me! He's the guy everyone wants to date and wants ar...
By: Bret Easton Ellis ISBN: 0679735771 Publisher: Vintage Contemporaries / Random House Publication Date: March 1991 Format: Paperback Pages: 399 Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and he works on Wall Street, he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to...
AMERICAN PSYCHO - American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis is one of my favorite books. It’s a work of true genius, about a sadistic murderer who is self-obsessed. The thing that’s great about this author is his strong voice - several of his other novels convey similar themes. The reader is transported ...
Patrick Bateman is handsome, well educated, intelligent. He works by day on Wall Street earning a fortune to complement the one he was born with. His nights he spends in ways we cannot begin to fathom. He is twenty-six years old and living his own American Dream. [ synopsis from goodreads ] So....
“I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human ...
Original review (2/8/2011):This book was intense. It made me feel really uncomfortable. It's hard to put it into words. Definitely not for the weak of heart. Great writing. ETA 10/31/14 after watching the movie at least 10 times in the last two years: The movie was a lot more palatable then the ...
It's been a long time since I last read this (was reading it regularly when it first came out).Follows Patrick Bateman, rich, young, yuppie as he moves through the world as he sees it, and the reader sees it for how inconsequential it really is.The violence and workd view given caused a bit of a sho...
"American Psycho" begins with the usual disclaimer. "This is a work of fiction. All of the characters...are imaginary and are not intended to refer to any living persons..." I should hope not.It is rare to read a book cover to cover when you cannot stomach any aspect of any of the characters. They a...
Note: The review below was taken directly from my Goodreads account. Warning: Spoilers be down below! I feel like I should do a PSA for this book before my review, so here it goes:Warning: This book contains graphic sex and violence. If you have a queasy stomach or don't like non-missionary se...
This is a strange book. I suppose that I see it as a commentary on the emptiness and pathological state of society reflected in the psychopathic murdering of the main character. In that case it is a kind of brutal satire of materialism and shallowness. It seems that some people think that the boo...
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