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Summary: I'll never be the same again...
Review: This book is an addictive trip; after reading it you'll never be same again for a bit of Patrick is in all of us! I'm Patrick and I'm proud!
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Summary: 100 stars for this book
Review: this is my favorite book ever. anyone giving this a bad review should beware bateman..... american psycho rules....period!
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Summary: ooooohhhhhh...........
Review: Wow what a read.....Its a bit slow to start off with but once you have the jist of the story, and he starts off his gruesome killings then its a fab read...not to be read if you are on your own!!!! I think the film probably is one for the real horror lovers!!!!!
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Summary: Gripping and very engrossing tale
Review: I read AMERICAN PSYCHO in the course of two days, and I enjoyed it highly. Of course, it is certainly violent, but the reader will find that is a fast read. Although I am not one for art interpretation, I found this book to be quite a strong commentary on the hollow lives of yuppies of the 1980's. I would hesitate to call it wonderful, but it certainly captures the era. After I finished reading this book, I got a positive feeling not about the story, but about the book itself. It captured the psychosis of one man and it makes you wonder what goes on behind closed doors...
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Summary: Oh my god....
Review: I was told that I had to read this book. I just had to...And I did. There are so many words that go through my mind when I think of this book. But first, I would never want to meet Pat Bateman in a club or dark alley nor would I want to meet Ellis for that matter. Two, I'm glad I didn't read this book when I was told to(years ago). I don't think I would have ever finished it. I'm 24 now and a lot more stable in my thinking. And three...jesus, what is this man? He is so vile, disgusting, careless, digital, inhuman, sick, creative, smart, well-dressed, rich, druggie, alcoholic, "in", obsessive, and well... psycho. I haven't yet ventured to read any other of Ellis' books, but I want to. "American Psycho" is probably one of my favorite books now...
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Summary: Makes you wonder about normal people on the street
Review: I have heard so much about this book and had always planned to read it. When I heard the Leo Di Cap rumor, I went out and bought it b/c I didn't want to be part of the movie hype. I think it is unfortunate that an actor like Leo will be severely miscast because he has huge box office appeal. Leave it to Hollywood to wreck the imagination. Bateman should never be cast- in the same way that Holden Caulfield shouldn't- he should be everyman, b/c that is what Ellis tries to convey- notice how no one ever calls anybody by the right name and it doesn't matter- these yuppies are a dime a dozen. You just never know.
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Summary: A car accident you cannot look away from
Review: American Psycho is nothing less than an astounding literary masterpiece. But it's more. Flawless craftmanship, authenticity and sheer originality aside, this book has the amazing ability to make you feel sick to your stomach that you read it in the first place. It's fascinating and horrific. Impossible to abandon. But after you've finished reading it, you feel somehow dirty. As though you really should have put it down long ago. Which is evidence of its brilliance. And this is exactly why reading American Psycho is such a disturbing experience. Ellis transports the reader, with astounding authenticity, into the mind of a seriel killer. Indeed, Mr. Ellis may tell a terrible tale, but he tells it with such skill and truth and grace that it's really no surprise American Psycho is one of the most controversial and noticed books ever written. American Psycho really is a bit like looking at a car accident. We all stop and look. But we feel uncomfortable with our f! ascination. And comfortable, American Psycho is not. But worth reading? "His Trinity ring from Walter Chin for Cartier seemed to suck all the free light into it, the three bands grinning with gold, flashing against his disposable Acuvue contact lenses as he typed the letters: y-e-s."
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Summary: Oh, please...
Review: This book was a nearly impossible read. The violence was not at all interesting or clever or smart--it was just bloody. There was no exploration of the psychology behind violence, or the linking of violence and sex and money and power. Now that might have been interesting. As it stands, my dropout junior high school boyfriend could have written this book.
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Summary: I'm burning it.
Review: this book is a f***ing joke. i'm kind of sick, but this is just really .... i almost threw up. i liked rules of attraction (before i knew he wrote this) and i think i'll shred it now. Mr. Ellis does not deserve this praise, & is not even worthy of condemnation.
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Summary: A waste of time
Review: I read it, and wondered what I'd done with those three hours of my life. There was nothing "shocking" or "spectacular" about it. More than the story of a serial killer, it's the story of the hollow lives of the "yuppies" of the late 1980s -- the drug abuse, compulsive consumerism and mindnumbing sameness of their lives (half of his "friends" can't even remember his name).
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