American Psycho

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Summary: Repulsively well-written.
Review: I read this book lying in the hospital waiting for a blood transfusion (go figure!), and I have to say when you get pass the gore and sadistic torture scenes, Ellis carved an appropriate headstone for the yuppie-infested, gimme-gimme-gimme-it's-mine, 80's morality/mentality. I think he saw Dahmer coming--almost. Patrick Bateman was a lot more loathesome. After leaving the hospital, I returned to my African-American-womanist sensibilities and promptly put my copy of this book on the barbecue grill and torched it. Rest in pieces, Patrick Bateman. 'Nuff said..

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Summary: THE WORST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ. BAR NON.
Review: tHE WORST BOOK i HAVE EVER HAD THE DISPLEASURE OF READING. i LOVE GROSS SEX AND MURDER SCENES. THIS BOOK MADE NO SENSE AT ALL. THE SEX SCENES WERE WELL WRITTEN AND WOULD HAVE FIT IN ANOTHER BOOK. BUT THE WRITTING WAS SO POOR I WAS EMBARRASED FOR THE AUTHOR. THIS BOOK REALLY SUCKED! I would be happy to tell it to the author. This book proves that any one with the right connections can get a book pub- lished. This book really really sucked!

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Summary: A real good book
Review: The only reason I did'nt give this book a 10, was because I did'nt like the presentation of the three musik groups! Everyting else is the best i've read, and that is quite some books

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Summary: Literal Deconstruction
Review: While so many defenders of this novel are either saying, "At least give it a try; it's not as bad as the media has made it out to be," I'm urging you to read it once. Let it digest. Mull it around in the ol' gulliver a bit. Let the shock subside. Read some other books. Now, read it again. As with any good book you'll see through the gloss and gore of the novel's extremities and begin to scratch the surface, digging beneath the surface. You'll start to see some of the underlying, blackest-of-black humor, the necessity of the verbosity, the inherent value of the graphic nature of the infamous scenes and their necessity in the workings for the whole of the novel. Now, repeat the aforementioned steps. Why do I give this novel a 10? Not because I am some pentagram-scribbling, 80's heavy metal imagist enamored with naseous renderings of gore and dismemberment. Not because it is deemed cool in countercultural crowds to embrace that which is shunned by popular opinion. I give this novel a 10 because I have read it four times in the course of four years, and each time I read it, my appreciation for Ellis' genius grows even greater. After my first reading I thought, "This novel could use some HEAVY editing." I would have rated it a six or seven. Subsequent readings have squelched this opinion. I now can see much more of the total picture, the underlying structure of this seemingly structureless novel, and the seemingly insignificant allusions to Bateman's past and future acts deftly hidden among the sprawling prose that constitutes the first fourth of the novel. This book deserves to be read. Taught in university courses. (I proudly presented a presentation on it to my American Novel course.) Studied. Revered. It is one of the most important novels of the late 20th century.

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Summary: All the dismemberment aside, Patrick's not a bad guy.
Review: If only the world was as simple as Patrick made it out to be. In all my years of reading, never have I come across a character with more panache. He exemplifies the young, rich, spoiled, New Yorker of the 80's. I have yet to find a writing so meticulously centered around a man and his ego. A wonderful piece of writing that deserves 4 thumbs up !!!!

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Summary: A high school students dream-of-a-book-report...
Review: My Jr. Honors English professor almost went into cardiac arrest when I delivered my oral presentation on this novel. One hell of a book... to say the least.

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Summary: modern nihilism at its best
Review: Not much else can be said. One of the most graphic and most depicting books i have ever read. A masterpiece for its time!

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Summary: I will defend this book for ever
Review: A portret of Manhattan in de early 80's , from a generation that is obsessed by externals , from an insensibility that turns almost in cruelty.

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Summary: amusing and disgusting
Review: Quote "here's a quarter, go buy som fuckin' gum you crazy nigger", Bateman says after slaying a poor old bum and his dog. Says it all, right

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Summary: Breathtaking!

Review: It's an incredibly sharp satire of human violence, hilarious and depressing in equal measures. Ellis' dark outlook on life really comes foreward in this wonderful book