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Summary: TWO EACH THEIR OWN...
Review: IF YOU LIKE GAUDY HORRIBLE TRASHY HORROR SCENES..THEN THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU. WHILE INTERESTING I FOUND THAT SOME OF THE HORROR SCENES WERE JSUT TOO DISGUSTING TO READ THROUGH. IF YOU HAVE A LOVE FOR ANIMALS YOU MAY WANT TO THINK ABOUT READING A FEW OF THE CHAPTERS..AS THEY INCLUDE DOGS AND SHARP OBJECT...NOT PRETTY. HOWEVER, IF YOUR STOMACH IS STRONGER THAN MINE YOU'LL LOVE IT!
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Summary: Great writing
Review: I just finished reading American Psycho last night and I can't stop thinking about it. Patrick Bateman embodies the essence of greed, power, intelligence, and capitalism. He also is extremely disturbed. This book will overpower you with its name brand commercialism and then throw you down and stomp on you with the grisly realities that reveal the true person behind the entity that is Bateman. The first half of the book makes you in awe of Batemans lifestyle and suggests hints of his insanity. The second half of the book is a relentless reminder of how indifferent Bateman is towards human life and how ridiculous material objects really are. It doesn't matter to the reader anymore about how good Bateman has it. No matter how much he has, he is still unsatisfied with himself and the expensive world around him. He despises everything and everyone. The ghastly deeds continue to pile up. Any hint at pleasant sexual pornography is negated as the reader soon becomes aware that there are no boundaries to Batemans sickness. This book is for the very open minded reader, who will try and take something meaningful about our sociey away from it. Very well written with strong character development. Great ending also.
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Summary: "Miami Blues meets "Silence Of The Lambs"
Review: Wow! I'm pretty jaded, and this book even made me cringe in parts. Not for the sqeamish. It is an almost impossible yet interesting case study of one, no make that a few, severely messed up individuals. Some worse than others. I enjoyed Easton's style, almost making the book a diary. It was hard to put down. It was arousing then gruesome, always explicitly detailed. If you've ever wondered what it would be like to live a life of luxury, or if you've ever pondered whether plaid goes with paisley (big faux-pas), you're curiosity should be satiated with all you need to know about men's and women's fashion, posh Manhattan dives, spring water, Whitney Houston, Genesis, Huey Lewis and the News, stereos and electronics in general, Vodka, prescription pills, oh yeah, and every possible way to kill people, and then some. Patrick Bateman is the most mean spirited, racist, sexist, sadistic, narcissistic, insecure, panic riden, and twisted character to have been created. But, I still managed to laugh out loud at some of his doings (and un-doings). This book is wickedly irresistable.
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Summary: Everything Counts
Review: American Psycho is one of the most original, complex, intriguing, and cleverly written novels I have read. It has various critiscisms thrown at it. Most are obviously misguided. Some (though I know none yet, but am sure) are justified. Some such as "the bits about the 80's music artists are boring", show the sheer detail and cleverness of the novel. They are boring. They can be interesting if you happen to love the artist any of them are about. They are supposed to be boring. (To put it simply). Everything in the book is put there purposefully, to show something; about a character, mood, etc. Just reading the last lines of the book shows the subtle nuances, the dramatic statements.
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Summary: makes me think censorship might be a good idea
Review: Brett Easton Ellis would probably make snuff films if he thought he could get away with it. It's creepy that this is the second book of his that mentions snuff films. It makes me think that maybe he is aroused and excited by the material in this book and is indulging his warped fantasies, but pretending that his book is extreme satire. Therefore I have no respect for him as a writer or as a member of my species.
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Summary: A very intense ride
Review: This is an absolute masterpiece. Set in the early ninties, American Psycho has the ability to make you read this book in one sitting. I started reading the book at 10:00 a.m one day and looked up at the clock as I got to the midway point and it was 2:30!!! The book definately starts up slow but when it picks up pace it is a very detail oriented and extremely explicity ride. Read this book!!!
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Summary: Where's the plot?
Review: I saw an add for the movie and went online looking for a website...and found out it was actually a book too. So, while on my way back from my girlfriend's house in Philly, I picked it up at 30th St. Station's bookstore...for the next three days I could not put it down. I love this book. What really caught me off-guard was that I expected it to tell me a lot about eighties decadence and I actually came off of it feeling like the nineties and twentyfirst century aren't much different. As a philosophical work, it's really interesting watching Patrick find "the good life" on his terms, however repulsive. But this book had no real plot and the descriptions of the eighties music acts (none of which I like either) ticked me off. All in all, a fascinating book minus a few meaningless sections.
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Summary: A Needless Examination
Review: As I read this, what, nine years ago now, I remember just shaking my head. I was 18 and the book seemed interesting, well, I was wrong. I keep each of the books that I read and when the movie was released I glanced back at my copy and still I wondered what the point of its writing was. Was Ellis just beating the hell of of his typewriter/computer keyboard to get out his aggression, kill the computer instead of a person (from his fine descriptions in the book you could figure that he would choose to kill a female, but more than likely he isn't capable of such acts, so he spews them forth into hack novels.) It is interesting to see the almost straight divide between people who liked/loved the book and those who hated it. This book has no redeeming value, it is trash. I consider reading it one of my mistakes of youth.
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Summary: Be prepared
Review: Be prepared for this one....at once one of the funniest and most revolting pieces of literature out there. I had to skim through some of the murder scenes as they were too explicit, and frankly, unnecessary. One of the great points of the movie was that the "scare factor" involved the idea that you, the audience, would dream up the deaths of the various characters. Maybe it would match Patrick Bateman's desire, or maybe it would fall short, but it was left to the viewer to fear the unknown. Here the violence is over-the-top and done for shock value. I'd say it was supposed to de-sensitize the reader, but the idea is to make the reader want to read your work. The latter killings became ho-hum for me because I didn't care how gruesome they were. As a reader, I wanted to try to find an answer, so I'd skip ahead to his behavior following the murders.As for the comedic aspect....wow! Great dialogue and neat cut-out characters that spoof the 80s. The U-2 concert scene is classic! Just watch out for the 2nd chapter...it's funny on screen but painful in print. Overall, a provocative read that leaves you wanting more story, even after 399 pages!
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Summary: "American Garbage"
Review: Yes. We get it. The de-valuing of humanity and over-valuing the chattels, ownership, the mundane. I am sending this book back to wherever it came from and demanding my money back. Makes one wonder why in the world one could ever defend "The Freedom of Speech" at all zealously. Take the "Art Imitating Life" position and throw that in the garbage with the book.
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