American Psycho
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Bret Easton Ellis
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this modern classic, the acclaimed author of The Shards explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. "A seminal book.” —The Washington PostOne of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsPatrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.“A masterful satire and a ferocious, hilarious, ambitious, inspiring piece of writing.... An important book.” —Katherine Dunn, bestselling author of Geek LoveLook for Bret Easton Ellis’s latest novel, The Shards!
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Author
Bret Easton Ellis
Pages
416
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Date
2010-06-09
ISBN
0307756432 9780307756435
Ratings
Google: 4
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"This is the apex of Bret Easton Ellis’s writing, which is a whole lot of books on the same privileged, indulged, and bored population. If someone is on your case that you have to read some Bret Easton Ellis, make it this one and remember you only get to read so many books over the course of your life and move onto something more interesting and varied. And then be sure to watch the movie, because the film adaptation is the apex of the story. "
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CaitVD
"I gave it 3 stars it was good but I was disappointed "
Kayliekreads
"I don't even know what to say about this book. I gasped out loud multiple times while reading this haha. It was incredibly dark and ****** up, but it was creative. It is obnoxiously detailed, so some parts of the book were difficult to get through. I think this translated better in the movie than in the book. This book was also super disgusting, so I would not recommend it to someone who doesn't frequently read and/or watch gory horror. This is my third Ellis book, and I didn't think it would be more disturbing than Less Than Zero (it was)."
Emily
"Tough read for some, however, it has tons of important messages hidden beneath all the gore!"
olivia cain
"I've never had the urge to put a book down, but yet keep reading, before. This book will make you cringe once you realize how this psycho constantly flips a terrifying emotional switch (the movie did this no justice) as he did in this book. Tons of amazing American pop culture and style references, and the homeless man with his dog scene will be with me forever..."
Hillary Hayes
"Not for the faint of heart, and not easy to recommend—while it’s slow to start, the payoff is immense, incredible even. I’ve never felt so invested in a first person perspective before; the way he speaks through the prose is so effortlessly enrapturing that I’m obsessed. Bateman is cold, his consciousness a surreal suburbia that twists itself into whatever shape he needs. This book will make you laugh from surprise, gasp with horror, and, maybe, feel connected to the psychopath within the pages."
Basil
"Describes what everyone is wearing in the same amount of detail used to describe the murders. "
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Mason Hilke
"what did i just read? but i liked it??"
Sunnavi Chhem
"Perfectly encapsulates the problems with yuppy society. While is seems to be more a look from within, rather than a scathing look from below, Patrick Bateman is a despicable character and unreliable narrator that depicts the Upper Echelon of Society. The violence is graphic, but worth it to prove that he is irredeemable and loathsome. What many readers find as ‘boring’ details are actually necessary to ground the mundane and banal world it creates. 10/10 would recommend for those with strong stomachs and penchants for anti capitalist tendencies. "
JB Baisa
"It shows the true character of who patrick bateman is and is not filtered like the film. The sheer gore and disgusting detail of his victims makes it all the better, adding to the the question of, "did he actually do this?" "
loaf man
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