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Summary: A ride through hell.
Review: A bit boring at first with all the talk on clothes and restaurants, but certainly picks up the pace. It's a bit scary because you become the killer, your heart races when he's running, as if you don't want to get caught. A definite must read.
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Summary: The BEST, the VERY BEST!!
Review: I can honestly tell you that I have always hated to read. My English teacher sophomore year told me about this "AMAZING" book he read, called "American Psycho." So I figured..."Hey, he is a pretty cool guy, he would probably know if a book was good or not." So drove to Borders that night and bought the book and read it the same night...It was the first book I ever enjoyed! The best book!!
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Summary: The moral majority?
Review: I was moved, and so to was my stomach. A flawless effort from a pioneer author. I cannot bring myself to give an equally flawless rating due to the nature of violence that is too prevelant in all walks of socity today. To applaud this book 100% would be to condone the efforts of evil case subjects. Congrats, however, to Mr Ellis.
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Summary: MAKE UP YOUR OWN MIND
Review: American Psycho has been criticized and praised, but mostly a lot of nonsense has been written about it. This is a powerful book, charting one man's isolation from the world and the absurdity of his environment. THe brilliance of some of the descriptions, the clarity of the prose as clothes hanging on soulless yuppies are punctiliously detailed, and the sheer anger of the writer make this an interesting and compulsive read. It is not a masterpiece, it is not a stupid work of titillation. It is an ambitious and striking novel. READ IT FOR YOURSELF.
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Summary: Bret easton Ellis presents the ultimate in 1980's allegory.
Review: In American Pyscho Bret Easton Ellis uses the most brutal of humankind, the serial killer, to give expression to the cutthroat world of 1980's Manhatten. He concludes that looks are deceiving and that richer doesn't always mean better. His giving form to this monster does not mean we have escaped the cruelty of the world we create. This is our doing he seems to be saying and we can sit in judgment all we want, but first we should look at ourselves and look for the bit of Patrick Bateman in us all.
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Summary: CRAZY. GENIUS.
Review: This book is extremely intriguing and keeps the reader thinking during and after he has read it. The story walks a fine line between fiction and true crime. It is told in such a non-chalant way that the horror creeps up on you, making it more effective due to the readers unpreparedness. Without a doubt, the oddest part of the book is the charater's point of view, which gives the terror an even chillier twist, and needs to be experienced, not explained. Also, by the use of modern, everday people and events (such as Hugo Boss or Whitney Houston)and interweaving them into the story, as if they were just as common as a brutal murder, Ellis gives a different meaning to the word frighten.
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Summary: Deeply disturbing but an incredibly good read!
Review: I still find it hard to believe how one man could be twisted enough to do the things he did. Did he actually do them? Did he dream them? Could I become like him? Could anyone? I'm still reeling from the emotions that this book provoked. It is an incredible piece of work!
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Summary: An hilarious Swiftian satire of 80's Yuppiness.
Review: Anybody who reads this only as a "thriller" is missing the point. Whether real or imagined, Patrick's bizarre and violent psychotic behavior is the perfect counterpoint to his obsessive, venal preoccupation with the full spectrum of Designer possessions: clothes, furniture, restaurants, accessories. The question I think Ellis asks is, "Which behavior is MORE Psychotic?"Steve Jackson
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Summary: Nauseating, and completely devoid of literary value
Review: I am appalled at how many readers gave this book a glowing review. I was slightly interested at first in how the character moves from his empty upscale Manhattan existence to his nocturnal visits to the underworld. But after a few back and forths from Bateman, yuppie stockbroker to Bateman, hero-psycho-killer and I was not only ready to lose my lunch but I was monumentally bored at the flat one-dimensional feel of this story. It takes more than an ability to blithely describe murderous scenes of rape, decapitation, and gore to make a novel compelling. I read Less than Zero years ago with and felt it was flawed but mildly interesting. I realized that Ellis was still young and perhaps would hone his craft. He hasn't!!
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Summary: Absolutely hilarious, Swiftian satire of 80's Yuppiedom.
Review: The big question I think Ellis poses is this: Are Patrick's grotesque, obsessive, repulsive descriptions of murder and sexual mayhem really any more psychotic and outrageous than his grotesque, obsessive, repulsive descriptions of the shallow netherworld of Yuppiness... the designer clothes, the pretentious (and totally silly) restaurants and their awful food creations? Seems to me the irony is totally intended and entirely appropriate. That particular group of shallow, greedy, superficial, venal vulgarians is about as psychotic and murderous to the human spirit as any since the days of the Holocaust.
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