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Summary: Darkly Hilarious!
Review: Ok, ok, while this book is very disgusting in it's detail of Patrick's murders, tortures, etc., it is very funny. Look beneath the horrifying scenes and you find someone so wrapped up in himself that he has to explain for ten pages or so what he wears to work, to go out, etc. He represents (at least what my idea was) the yuppie in the age of Reaganomics. The most important thing to him in every day life (all crimes aside) is watching the Patty Winter's Show , eating at the "in" places and seeing what everyone else is wearing. One of my favorite scenes is when Patrick gets his manicure (funny in itself, how many men do you know who get a manicure?) but he's talking to his manicurist and explains to her that he really wants to put the song "Don't worry, be happy" on and wear a smiley face and torture someone. That scene in itself, don't worry, be happy while I kill you I found funny--in a dark way. Not like a light slapstick. :) Plus, the fact that (and this goes for all of his confession scenes) no one even reacts when he says it. They just go on doing whatever the were doing, depicting the selfish,self-centered,yuppie stereotype. They are all too wrapped up in themselves and being rich, hip and the it thing of the moment that they don't even notice when someone says they murdered someone last night. This to me is very odd, put there for a purpose, and in a dark way, histerical. For those of you who do not know, American Psycho is going to be made into a movie. It begins shooting very soon (if it's not already) in New York City (I think). It is starring Christian Bale (Velvet Goldmine, Little Women,Empire of the Sun) and is being directed by Mary Harron. I'm told that this movie is going to be less voilent (or at least we won't be shown the really horrible stuff) and it is going to deal more with soulessness. :-) Look for it!
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Summary: Brilliant, scary
Review: Where Ellis truly asserts his genius is in actually making you like Pat Bateman. I was appalled with the graphic depictions of death and depravity, but I couldn't put the book down. Read it.....
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Summary: Good book but, diappointing!
Review: This book could have been an excellent book. Patrick Bateman was definitely an American Psycho. This book would have been much better if it had a plot and was written in the third person. Excessive descriptions about fashion got a little boring but, Ellis did a wonderful job describing the murders. This book could have you aroused one minute and the next minute you would almost feel physically sick. The ending was poor and three chapters of the book seemed to be Ellis's way of talking about his favorite musicians. I still have no idea why these chapters were put in this book. My expectations of this book were never lived up to.
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Summary: Repulsive subject, good book
Review: I found the book disturbing and upsetting, and I have a pretty strong stomach. This is not to say it's a bad book, but it is definitely not a book for my mother to read. It is truly frightening how a character like Patrick Bateman thinks, and the author makes it very clear. Something about Bateman is very real, for a fictional character, which shows the talent that Ellis has. It's just that the character is so troubling to those of us who never have thought about such things as dismembering our friends, loved ones or strangers on the street.
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Summary: An amazing novel, with prose you just want to gobble up
Review: What can I say that hasn't been said? This book simply must be experienced.
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Summary: Look around you...
Review: I read this book when I was 23...Today I'm 26 and I still think that nobody like James Spader (do you remember him at "Less than zero",as Rip?) for playing the role of Patrick Bateman.
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Summary: The Most Disturbing Book I have ever read
Review: I feel like I have missed something: that there is a point to this book : a message, a moral, some kind of statement about society - SOMETHING - and I'm just not getting it. I'm not a prude, I'm open-minded, I'm educated, I can handle a lot but my intial reaction after finishing the book was that I needed to throw it away. Horrible, disgusting, frightening, disturbing, twisted. What was going through the authors mind when he wrote this? I like the way Ellis writes, I think his style is good and I think I know what he was trying to get with all the fashion and food talk right along with the murders and attacks - all in the same monotone reaction from Bateman.(i.e.: gutting a street person meant about as much to him as what he had for breakfast or where he is going to have lunch). So I won't fault it for that or being boring. I just don't see a point to it. A reason for it actually being. (Perhaps the main character was just a madman/insane and imagined it all? there are hints to that.)I won't recommend this book, and I will warn others against it. I am dissapointed in Ellis and doubt I'll be checking out his other works.
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Summary: A wonderful must-read!
Review: This book is truely amazing. Some people are blind to the allegorical nature of the novel and say that it is mysogonistic. I say to those people, "Get over yourselves!" This is a brilliant aproach to the greedy eighties. Ellis' character doesn't only attach women; he attacks homeless people, children, and gays too. I think he's hilarious. As a homosexual, I didn't think Ellis was attacking homosexuals when the main character killed the homosexual man who was walking his dog. This book is not about hating people. Its about loving yourself too much. Its about being so greedy that you'll kill(brutily) to get what you want. And isn't that what Michael Milken did?
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Summary: Body, Evidence, Blood and a Brooks Brothers Suit
Review: This novel had to be one of the most important contriubtions to literature in the 1990's. It allowed us to reflect on a time which was rather tasteless in and of itself and one in which personal gain could be accomplished without any shred of emotion. Easton delivers with scathing detail and keeps the reader attached until the end. You come to see the world through the eyes of Pat Bateman and have a great deal of sympathy for a man who has been wholly infected with the blackness of society. I could not put it down.
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Summary: THIS IS A GREAT BOOK
Review: I FOUND THIS BOOK DISTURBING, I WOULD LIKE TO RECOMEND FOR THOSE PEOPLE THAT DOESN'T LIKE NORMAL BOOKS. I LIKE THE PARTS WHEN BATEMAN TALKED ABOUT MUSIC. HERE IN MEXICO WE ARE LOOKING FOR THE REST OF BRET EASTON ELLIS ' BOOKS
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