American Psycho
Described by Publishers Weekly as "a grisly, gritty gross-out (about) the cool yuppie lifestyle of Patrick Bateman, 26, whose avocation is torturing and dismembering his female victims and festooning his apartment with their body parts, " this book by the author of Less Than Zero is sure to cause...
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Described by Publishers Weekly as "a grisly, gritty gross-out (about) the cool yuppie lifestyle of Patrick Bateman, 26, whose avocation is torturing and dismembering his female victims and festooning his apartment with their body parts, " this book by the author of Less Than Zero is sure to cause a stir.
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Format: ebook
ASIN: 9780679735779
Publish date: 28-03-1991
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Edition language: English
So excited to read this book.
Maybe I'll get back to this one. Ellis and i seem to fight, stylistically, and he typically wins, and i typically withdraw to the corner. I admit he is a decent writer—I'm no author, so he wins by default—, but he typically leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Like vacuuming, I recognize that it needs to...
When at the tender age of fifteen(-ish) I heard this book had been banned, I borrowed it from my local library (they had to order it from another library further away) and I read it. I can't say that I particularly enjoyed reading it, but neither do I remember enough to accurately rate it. Christian...
Much of the reason this gets three stars and not two is for the first two thirds of the book, and the craft evident. At first the book is pretty entertaining and obviously well-constructed. When the first graphically described violence comes, it is horrific and one of the most disturbing and stomach...
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