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Summary: It's all fun and games 'til someone loses an eye!
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It gave me many ideas regarding fashion and health & beauty products that I may want to try myself. It also provided me with many ideas for ways to spend my idle time. I hope to put some of these ideas into action very soon. A great read!
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Summary: Warning: this book will induce drowsiness
Review: In American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis manages to accomplish what I previously thought was impossible: to create the most horrifically violent and also the most horifically boring book I have ever read. Any fan of this book who says its critics just can't handle the graphic content is absurdly short-sighted. I don't fault Ellis and writers like him for the violence and ills of society. To be honest, the only violence this book will incite is the desire to perform one of the described acts of torture on oneself as a more pleasurable alternative to reading the book. I do, however, fault him for writing a book that is dull and lifeless to the point of being unreadable.If the author is attempting to make an intelligent commentary on greed, violence, and pop culture in the 80's he fails miserably to do so. Each and every character is unsympathetic and annoying. The descriptions of violence and sex fail to titillate or provide suspense. The prose is flat and hollow. If the author looks to attribute all this to the fact that the story is told through the narration of a psychopath then he has taken on a task greater than his limited writing talents can handle because this book is so lacking in any entertainment value that any point he is trying to make (of which I can see none) is lost. This book may attract readers out of morbid curiosity but they will find themselves feeling like adolescents trying to view the Playboy channel through the scrambling, desperatley scanning for something provocative but in the end being only frustrated, annoyed, and ultimately, bored to tears.
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Summary: Flat out, the worst book I have ever read
Review: I am not sure if it is the writing style or the content that places this book at the bottom of my reading experiences. It is a rare book that makes you feel cheated for having spent the time to suffer through it.
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Summary: Somebody owes me my time back!
Review: This was possible the first book I have ever wanted to stop reading. Not due to the content, but rather the lack of it! Ellis has to be one of the laziest authors of his time, this books reads like a copy of GQ with some reviews from Rolling Stone and a few pages from Penthouse thrown in to add some pages. I finished it only hoping at one point it would become a story with some sense of flow, but the book continued to be choppy and totally out of touch with anything that would make it seem realistic. If it weren't for the publisher giving up on it, I would have thought all the hype was created by the publisher just to sell an otherwise doomed book.
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Summary: Horrible, atrocious, and no point
Review: I bought this book to see what all the hype was about. I should have saved my money. This was the most disgusting, vile book I have ever read. People often wonder where children get there ideas to blow up schools and murder their peers. Material like this that falls into the wrong hands can do damage. I am a firm beliver in free speech, but when something like this is out to the general public I can't help but wonder who is reading this book and who will want to be just like the subject of the book. People don't like to blame the media, in reality media has alot to do with the acceptance of violence. Read this with caution, and parents be aware what your children view and read.
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Summary: More a bad short story than a great novel
Review: American Psycho is one of those rare books that manages to be boring and repellent at the same time. Despite the gory detail, nothing happens. Admittedly, that may be the point of the book. If so, it hardly needed to be 400 pages long. Yes, it is rich in detail. It may even be an interesting commentary on the jaded, desensitized eighties. But the bottom line is that nothing changes thoughout the lifespan of the book. This may be all right for reality, but for fiction, it's just dull. I admit, however, the book has desensitized me to the extent that if Bret Easton Ellis is murdered by some twisted freak I will not care.
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Summary: Down with the 80's!!!!!
Review: Ellis demolishes the materialism of the late 80's and early 90's while simultaneously showing us, we'e not far off. His attack is hot and acidic so what out or you might get burned. I found myself on the verge of a break down while reading it and those who have followed my read have also skirted that edge- it's that strong!!!!! Only fo those desensitised Gen Xers not for the sensitive.
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Summary: Brett Easton Ellis in his time
Review: I understand the complaints about the novels (lack of) structure and I think, like Martin Amis, conclusions will always be a problem for him - he tends to stop rather than end - but his talent for portraying the way pop culture and consumerism seep into everyone and everything is often brilliant. I'm thinking particularly of the opening sequence in American Psycho with 'Be my Baby' playing on the stereo while the squalor of Manhattan glides past and corporate power-talk fills the air. I can remember imaging it 'on-screen' when I first read the words. The book really captures the venal brutality that permeated America and Britain during the Eighties, it was something that - even as a child growing up - often seemed intensely alive in all aspects of the culture. I'm glad his sense of humour has been picked up on widely because he has an unrivalled ability to satirise how absurd our values have become while stilling acknowledging the inevitability of the urges that keep us attached to them. I think that's a truly valuable thing for an artist to achieve.
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Summary: The depth takes you to another level
Review: This is one of the best books I have ever read. The critics of this book should shut their mouths and open their eyes and ears to what Ellis is really trying to convey. The explicit scenes are only character to Ellis's genius of syntax and etc. People shouldn't shun this novel because of skin-crwaling languge, because this is truly one of the best pieces of fictional work ever.
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Summary: Definitely not all sweetness and light.
Review: Like it or not, Ellis will probably be included in literature history. As for the repetitiveness, I agree that his points could've been made on less pages, but the effect seems to be all about REALLY DRIVING IT IN, unrelentingly, and yes, to shock. Shock you into reality. As much as many people hate it, I think this book is like getting a bucket of ice cold water (or vomit if you will) thrown into your face to wake you out of the work-a-day existence most people have. So if one wants to be only reminded that there is beauty and goodness all the time, don't read this. It will certainly give you a feeling of defilement. That said, should the Marquis de Sade's writings be burned along with this?
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