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Summary: What is this world coming to!
Review: We are all going to hell in a hand basket. Even though I consider myself an open minded person, I believe in the right to free speech. This book goes way too far in it's graphic, graphic, graphic detail of violence. Even though I am a fan of the movies "Silence of the Lambs" and "Seven". This book is just too much--it just goes too far. Let me put it this way, after reading it you feel you need to take a shower, seek spiritual direction. Please keep it out of the hands of children, actually adults too. YUCK!
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Summary: horror at its worst
Review: I was unable to finish this book. Although I can be a fan of murder and madness novels, this was unbearable. the violence was extreme and the continous name- dropping of material wealth (ie. Gucci, Tumi, Expensive resturaunts) became boring. I am ashamed that I bought it. If you can finish it without throwing up, I would be surprised.
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Summary: An excellect book that tells a sad tale
Review: I have to say that i bought this book because of all the bad reviews that people were giving it. I have a real problem when people try and blame things like this book, video games, TV, and anything else they can think of for the real world problems with violence. Some of these people should realize that any normal person would be able to tell the differance between fiction and reality. With that said, the book is great. It tells a sad tale of fictional reality that is absoulutly enticing. True it is extremely violent in some places, but I have seen worse on the 5 oclock news. Many times i found myself becoming part of the book. Part of the appeal of this book is the fact that it has caused so much contreversy. In my humble opinion, if you want to stop the violence in reality, stop making a big deal about fictional violence.
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Summary: This is one of my all-time favorite books
Review: Look past the violence (yes, there's a lot, and, no, this book is not for the squeamish) and enjoy a really clever and funny book. Bateman is one of the most interesting characters I've ever read. American Psycho is a vivid snapshot of the 80s - BEE's best work.
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Summary: Hey, it's America
Review: I read this book about 10 years ago, when I was reviewing it for my college newspaper. Our campus bookstore had banned it at the request (demand?) of the university Women's Center. I hated the book and said so in the review but wrote an accompanying editorial in which I chastised the bookstore manager for censoring the book and buckling under pressure from the women's center. Bottom line...the book has no social or literary redeeming value and I can't imagine anyone actually enjoying it. But people will read it (and now, go see the movie) because it's so over-the-top. C'mon...is that really what the 80s were all about?
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Summary: Boys will be boys!
Review: Was put onto this one by an English friend after reading the novel "E-Males" by Allen Jarvis - supposedly the UK's answer to Bret Easton Ellis? Whereas Ellis's Psycho goes one step further than Jarvis's E-Male - he actually KILLS PEOPLE he doesn't like! - both young men seem obsessed by the exact same fascinations: pornography, sex, clothes, designer drugs, hip clubs and their status with respect to their peers. What is it with young men today, hey? Would like to recommend some Irvine Welsh to anyone who's read both these books and Don DeLillo's "Americana" to anyone who loved Psycho. Just my thoughts! Thank You!
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Summary: Absolutely amazing
Review: This book left me speechless. The vivid detail, not to mention it's strong message about one problem about our miserable world, was painfully accurate. I can't wait to see the movie this weekend though I doubt that it will be nearly as good as this amazing book.
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Summary: You'll either love it or hate it
Review: If you don't like people who have more money than you, or you like dark, satirical, nonliteral stories, you'll love this book. However, if you are a status-seeker or (God-forbid) actually aspire to be rich, you'll hate this book. Bret Easton Ellis always writes about the perils of money. Oh yeah--I've noticed that a lot of people who love this book and rant against Wall Street are from far, far away and probably haven't ever worked on Wall Street. Don't think that everything you see in the movies or in books is the norm. Most people on Wall Street are not as evil as you think. In factm they're pretty normal.
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Summary: Best argument for censorship ever
Review: This book, which begins rather humorously with constant descriptions of what designer suit the protagonist is wearing, degenerates to such a grossness in description, of refrigerated skulls and the activities related to them, that, fearful that someone else in my family might actually pick up this filth, I ripped it apart and threw it away. I can not believe there are actually people that can read or write this terrible material. (By the way, the 1 star is only because I couldn't go negative.)
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Summary: just my imagination?
Review: I just finished the book last night and still haven't figuredout exactly my take on it. I can't stop thinking about it. Myproblem is that the "satire" angle only works if, as I cameto suspect about 1/4 of the way in, that all of PB's perversion and inhumanity is not real at all - that it is only in his imagination- something to "kill" the time in his pathetic existence ... THAT'S the irony there. I mean, the story line is COMPLETELY implausible and pointless otherwise ... and one character makes an allusion to this near the end as well... Anyway, very very thought provoking, but I don't know if or why I would recommend it to anyone - it is just all too bizarre and traumatizing. But perhaps that is a good thing to experience in life. I do know that this book has deeply affected me in ways that are surprising and that I have yet to name. It had a way of getting under my skin without my permission and attaching itself to my psyche... diabolical indeed. END
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