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Summary: Fiction or Fantasy
Review: Frankly, I'm surprised at how many people took this book literally, perceiving it to be just another slasher/serial killer book.We are, for the first time in my knowledge, meeting a serial killer in the making. American Psycho is a portrait of the psychotic spiralling out of control---but only in his mind...for now.
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Summary: Best Ever
Review: Not the type of book that you read more than once, but very entertaining and hard to put down. I wish it that is had been 800 pages as opposed to 400 pages, it was fantastic reading.
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Summary: THE American Novel of this century!
Review: Its scary. Very scary. Not beacause of the killings and torture and all that, but because of the carelessness. It's not Patrick Bateman that is the scariest person in this novel; it's the world that c r e a t e d him. This truly is a great work of fiction (?) about a world devoid of feeling. Where looks and fashion rules. Do you think Bateman & Co live meaningless lives? Then consider your own life. Do y o u think about other things than work/school, working out and hanging out? Hardly. If you belong to this generation (especially if you're a guy) do think about other thing than getting laid and getting that pump?? I don't. Perhaps I should???
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Summary: Strange and keeps you wondering until the end
Review: A rollercoaster ride throught the mind of a mixed up yuppie. You are kept wondering all the way through the book - Did he do all these murders or are the all in his mind. Way up the facts and you can come up with two answers. Yes - There is to much detail for him not to of done it & No - No man could do this and not be found out. The thing that coming back to me was the fact that all his so called friends could never get his name right. Was he dreaming up the murders his way of showing that he was important and had great power in the world than his friends. An outstanding book.....
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Summary: Sick, twisted, and brilliant
Review: This novel evokes powerful emotions from anyone who reads it. It is one of the most shocking books that I have ever read and it was absolutley impossible to stop reading it once I began. The novel truly cuts to the heart of the "modern industrial world" and reveals more about human perversity and cruelty than all of the other books I have ever read combined. A must read!
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Summary: Repetitive and boring
Review: This is one of the most disappointing reads I have come accross for a long time. The author presents fashion, food, sex and death or injury as the interests of his main characters and repeats himself time and again. The circle of events is broken up on occasion by a mindless assessment of Phil Collins and Huey Louis's musical careers. At least I have found a book which sets the lower standard against which I can judge any future books I read. SAVE YOUR MONEY!!!
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Summary: An essential novel!
Review: Sick; twisted; grisly; horrific; and absolutly fantastic. "Surface surface surface is all people found meaning in." The novel describes just how sick contemporary culture has become. I wish I had written this book.
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Summary: Dérangeant mais captivant
Review: Ce livre est extremement subversif. Quel monstre peut se cacher derrière un tel homme? Quelqu'un qui croit trop en une société materielle deshumanisante. La profondeur du livre se révèle dans le paroxisme de son sadisme : ce n'est pas une évolution du comportement de Bateman, c'est une découverte de sa vie, une introspection de ses pensées, terrifiant. Et en plus, il s'en sort bien!
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Summary: A book of Complete Horror which you cannot put down.
Review: AMERICAN PSYCHO is a riveting study of a yuppie serial killer who will go to any length to kill with gore those less fortunate who exist in his world. This book is half high fashion and half X-rated gore/horror. KJP 10/98, book read in 1991 and I have never forgotten it and loaned it to several.
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Summary: For godsakes, people, think about this
Review: If morality begins and ends with the self (egoism) and the only moral constraint is retaliation, then, if you can avoid retaliation, anything is permissible. This is the logical conclusion of contemporary American popular morality. If you're an Objectivist or a libertarian, if you think compassion is "stupid", this book is for you. This cautionary tale should be set in the philosophy section right in the middle of the collected works of Ayn Rand and her disciples. As an example of what I'm talking about, witness the sicko who wrote that he considered this book his "bible" and is moving into investment banking. Only people who lack conscience and compassion deny that conscience and compassion are integral to human motivation. The whole world is turning sick with the cult of me me me. I have a feeling Ellis saw this and wrote his vision of it. Bravo to him.
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