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Summary: BLECH!
Review: I don't understand how ANYONE can enjoy this book! It sputters along without a plot, and spends whole chapters about a morning's routine! It contains GRAPHIC sexual depictions, which I found disgusting (I'm 16--not in my 60's or anything....even my friends thought it was gross). SICK, SICK, SICK!
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Summary: POLLUTION
Review: The most obvious criticism is that this novel is a poor piece of writing. It lacks both plot and structure and is much too long - 400 pages of rambling, repetitive, juvenille shlock. How BEE can write so many pages with absolutely nothing to say is astounding.The more important criticism, however, is that this novel is a manifestation of the wickedness that is destroying our society. This author has taken the time to create something ugly and harmful - labouring to find the most vicious way of expressing violence against women. He is not merely commenting on society, he is actively contributing to it's pollution.
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Summary: Into The Mind of Evil
Review: I first purchased this book back in 1991 when it came out. Here in Canada it had been banned for a few months due to all the contraversy surrounding it. Reading it did not take more than a few days and I must admit it left me squeamish at times while reading it. Brett Easton Ellis writes from the point of view of the serial killer, his tought process, likes, dislikes, and fantasies. Having an interest in criminology, I found this book interesting and somewhat disturbing at times. Sociopaths are among us. Everyday people we meet and this book points out that no one knows the person sitting next to us at the movies, the dinner table, etc.... The killings are brutal, highly graphical and in great detail. As far as every person's wardrobe, hair style and many other details pointed out, Ellis has done a good job in giving insight into the mind of a notorious killer and the way they perceive the rest of us in our daily lives. I am looking forward to seeing the film and hope that they give this book justice on the big screen.
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Summary: American Classic
Review: This is a classic book, I love it. The ways this guy kills his victims is so twisted, so wrong. That is is an instant classic. I rank this right up there with A Clockwork Orange and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. If you haven't read this book you should.
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Summary: Good
Review: I think this book is good, maybe lacking in a couple of ways. But the descriptions were excellent, and I don't think it was really meant to scare anyone, I think it was to show the differences between day and night with the main character.
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Summary: provacative
Review: This book did disturb me the first time I read it. I wanted to find Mr. Bateman and kill him. However, when a book provokes me this much, I call it success. It is satirical once you get past the absolute horror of what you're reading and it does have the effect of making you feel quite happy with your own semi-normal life. I would have to say that it reflects everyone's fascination with the perverse and the strange. This book is just a super-concentrated form of the violence we witness everyday. I think, in a strange way, it is poking fun at the reader. We are fascinated with violence; reading this proves it--Read it, and move on. You have to respect the Ellis' high-powered imagination. So, grab your Tums and enjoy!
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Summary: The guy next door
Review: Once you start to understand WHY Patrick Bateman goes into such detail about clothes and other mundane items, this book becomes a great read. It is a macabre look at America (and everywhere really) and possibly the innerworkings of a mind that may live next door to you. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Reality
Review: American Psycho is a chilling, mesmerizing, horrifying book. Itis also hideously realistic in so many ways. This book was not written for escapism. This is reality. Much has been made over the books graphic content. Yes, all you've heard is true. This is the most graphic book you will ever read in your life. There are very in-depth depictions of violence and sex. However, the violence serves a purpose. If the book didn't have such graphic descriptions, the message would not come across nearly as well. What's the message, you ask. American Psycho is, first and foremost, a truly brutal satire of materialism. That's what it is, folks, a satire. It deliberately tries to make the uncontrolled materialism and decadence of the 80s look very stupid and bad. Does it succeed? Astoundingly well: every single line of dialogue, every single line of narrative in the book, serves to satirize. The book has Patrick Bateman, the main character, constantly rattling off exactly what people are wearing and who made it, as well as providing proper social ettiquette to his colleagues. People in the story constantly forget each other's names, but remember things like what restuarants they eat at, etc. In the story, what a person is really like means nothing. These people are what they own. The people in the story are cold, flat, and inhuman. The story is about how such a society can produce someone like Bateman. The facade that Bateman wears eventually totally dehumanizes him. He appears to be a rich, successful Wall Street type, and to the world around him, he is. However, he is a really a savage, inhuman serial killer who will torture and murder on a regular basis. He even confesses a few times in the story. Be warned: the book does not have a clear, identifiable plot. It is simply a series of events that happen, and not in real chronological order. There are spots that are skipped over a bit. However, it is still easy to follow. The book is also brutally funny. The dialogue is hilarious, and some of the exchanges between the characters had me laughing out loud, which I hardly ever do when reading a book. Be warned though: the book is just as graphic as you've heard, and probably more so. Don't let that turn you off of it though, unless you really are afraid you can't handle it. To close, despite the controversy surrounding it, American Psycho is a superb book. No, it's not for everyone, but it is a book you will never forget.
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Summary: TOO MUCH
Review: This book utterly disgusted me, i read it several years ago but the memory of it has stuck with me. The reason i read it was because it is a well known book and i wanted to see what the fuss was about I actually only managed to read 3/4 of it before i had enough, i was so disgusted by it i actually ripped it up. Whenever i see the book now i have to hold myself back from doing the same thing. A totally materially obssessed person, sickenly sexually perversive/abusive and uncontrollably violent. A book of lists of expensive items (yawn)- who cares? Unless you are yourself obsessive. In general upsetting - completely over the top, file under PERVERSE
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Summary: it's just a funny book!
Review: okay, yeah, yeah,yeah, there are problems with this man. he kills, he maims, and he's just plain evil. all his friends are shallow, so are his mother and brother. when all you have is money and clothes, what else do you do to fill in your lack of depth. you try to reach into others to get it, right? well, unfortunately he reaches way too deep in other people. i think the torture is a bit too in depth for my taste (leaves nothing for the imagination), but i have to give credit to BEE for engrossing detail. people, it's just a book about silly, shallow, ultra-rich, white people who are too absorbed in themselves to help society. just remember yourselves and your ambitions when you read it.
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