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Summary: its a fake
Review: o.k. given all of the flack over this book and the subsequent film that is being made by mary harron i feel that i must point one little thing out. none of the violence in the book actually happens [with maybe the exception of the boy in the zoo and the homeless man]. The fact that one of the characters who Bateman supposedly murders is seen numerous times in Europe is the clue. If this is taken into consideration i think it casts the book in a different light - sort of like that Nic Cage movie Vampires Kiss. All in all a good read, given the vacuousness and utter consumption present.
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Summary: Patrick Romanovitj
Review: just wanted to say that the book resembels "Crime and Punishment" in some respects.
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Summary: Hilarious
Review: This book is so funny and so sick. Its great!! It messes with your mind so much yet you never let go. MAD!!
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Summary: gruesome and gory but oh so clever
Review: Ellis has created a nasty contemporary masterpiece, a chillingly accurate portrayal of the detached, unfeeling existence that is modern life. In a world where everyone is the same and desperate to conform, Patrick Bateman's only stab at originality is what he does with the many bodies at his disposal. The complex layers of this novel are not easily explained in so few words, but essentially Ellis depicts the commodification of the human body so graphically and vividly as to shock. He offers no comforting psychological explanation for Bateman's behaviour either, leaving us a serial killer who is to all intents and purposes, just like you and me.
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Summary: The best written book ever !!!!
Review: This book really suck. It's about an Indian who goes to Montana Have a blast.
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Summary: captivating!!!
Review: Ellis does a wonderful job describing in this work. It is a classic "show, not tell" lesson for any writer. This is a shocking book that you cringe at but can't put down.
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Summary: A incredibly funny satire, but not for the faint of heart.
Review: I thought that this book was really good, and funny too. Everyone in this book is on the edge of some type of mental breakdown, no matter how they hide it. Bateman would say things about how he wanted to, or how he had killed people and the person he was talking to either didn't hear it at all or thought he was making some sort of joke. It might be a bit exaggerated, but it is a good point to make about society, who is even listening to each other any more???
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Summary: It's a satire and a comedy
Review: In looking at all the reader comments before this one, I see quite a few who went to great lengths to analyze the plausibility of the plot and characters. It is all in vain. The book is a comedy. It is an over-the-top satire that is not merely commenting on yuppie life via Bateman, but also via all the minor characters. Women are willingly abused by him, and dry cleaners fail to notice the blood stains on the sheets, and neighbors hear and smell nothing, and friends turn a deaf ear to Patrick's ramblings about murder, and the police fail miserably to follow up on what would be red-hot clues because it's ALL a commentary on the selfishness and shallowness of the 1980s. The violence is so extreme because it is completely anatomically impossible. Hardly any of the atrocities inflicted on his victims (especially the female ones) could actually happen as described. It's described almost the way a 13 year old would describe the violent scenes of a Rambo movie to a friend. Later, when Patrick is chased by the cops after he kills a homeless man, the narrative shifts to third person and the story reads like a treatment for an action movie. When I read some of the many restaurant/night club scenes, I laughed (once out loud--at the scene where Bateman presents to his girlfriend a urinal cake dipped in chocolate, pretending it's Godiva. "It's just so...minty.") When I read the scenes of unending violence, my jaw dropped as I read on and on and on until the chapter ended. My final reaction to these scenes was a gasp at how outlandishly excessive the scenes were. How can you take such nonsense seriously? This was the first BEE novel I have read, and I doubt I will read another, simply because his style has never interested me. It was the subject matter and the controversy that drew me to this book. My primary criticism is that it was too long--we didn't need so many redundant scenes of shallowness, greed, and vapidity to get Ellis' point. 250 pages would have done nicely for this story. It's a shame this book drew such a knee-jerk reaction from various groups and critics. It is by no means a great novel (artistically or politically), but it is a good novel that really is, when you stop and look at it in the proper light, a hysterically funny (read: ludicrous) satire on a particular view of the 1980s.
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Summary: Disgusting!
Review: This has got to be one of the most horrible books ever written. It's supposed to be a book about a psychopath, and I have to admit that the murder scenes are chillingly real. The only thing that Ellis proved to me with this is that he knows his designers and that there is something seriously wrong with the way his mind works.
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Summary: "PSYCHO" A JOLLY SICKO TALE
Review: Yikes! People think "8MM" is bad! Patrick Bateman is a self-absorbed Yuppie S.O.B., who is onstantly trying to get into the latest Manhattan clubs and restaurants, while dispensing advice to his equally shallow and vacuous friends and co-workers about what shoes to wear with Armani dinner jackets. Yet, somewhere amidst all the dinners and clubhopping and cocaine binging and workouts at exclusive fitness clubs and trying to figure out which mineral water is the best for his complexion (it gets rather tedious, but Ellis is BUILDING TO SOMETHING), Bateman starts to let it slip to we readers that he's a homicidal maniac! He kills and maims the homeless outside of trendy restaurants, knifes a young child in the throat at the penguin exhibit at Central Park Zoo, and cannibalizes call girls. He's got the money to cover up his crimes, and even pins some of them on a co-worker that he's murdered. When he actually calls in a panicked confession to his lawyer after being questioned by a private detective searching for one of his wealthier victims, the mouthpiece laughs it off as a joke! The book is set against the backdrop of the mid-to-late '80s, and closes as the '90s loom. It's a chilling tale, and certainly NOT for the squeamish! (How they'll ever make this into a movie without diluting it to the point of banality is beyond me!)
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