American Psycho
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4.2 • 93 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
Patrick Bateman has it all: good looks, youth, charm, a job on Wall Street, reservations at every new restaurant in town and a line of girls around the block. He is also a psychopath. A man addicted to his superficial, perfect life, he pulls us into a dark underworld where the American Dream becomes a nightmare . . .
American Psycho is one of the most controversial and talked-about novels of all time. A multimillion-copy bestseller hailed as a modern classic, it is a violent black comedy about the darkest side of human nature.
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Customer Reviews
Dark Satire
A work of dark satire.
The violence is extreme and there are lengthy passages that are self-consciously tedious in which Bateman pores over the minutiae of his friends' and colleagues clothes, hairstyles, menu choices ad infinitum.
If you can wade your way through the boring bits, and Ellis himself has recommended that readers do so, there are moments of hilarity to be had, such as when Bateman pontificates on why Genesis are the greatest band of the 1980s!
Uncomfortable.
I understand the motive behind the prose but this book is hard going at times. The film based on it displayed greater humour.
Rubbish
Don't waste your time. If you think that continuing to read this drivel will give you some kind of insight into the drivers behind the narrator, your wrong. This self indulgent and often obscene tomb will reveal nothing.