American Psycho
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4.3 • 68 Ratings
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
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 Post
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Patrick 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 Love
Customer Reviews
American Psycho
American Psycho is a terrifying Metaphor for Greed in the heart of the American Dream. Terrific book!
A one of a kind novel.
I debated reading this book, buying the paperback, and getting a nasty look, tossing it in my closet. Having. Seen the film, and finding it both hilarious and disturbing, and reading about all the hype around the novel, I decided to buy the digital version to see if I could really understand the hype, and finish it.
I get it. It’s an excellent novel. It wasn’t really disturbing, more so, just satire cranked up to 11. Assuming the entire book is loaded with gore, chapters and chapters of unrelenting cruelty, where, people have actually skipped parts, is completely incorrect.
The book is darkly, extremely funny, save for the graphic parts, that build and build in cruelty and intensity, but the attention to clothing brands, fashion advice, and the all important image and status of oneself, is oddly, very relevant today.
Be warned, it’s bleak, uncomfortable, but still a satire about image, status, and the 80s, though, again, it can easily be applied to the 90s or today, with social media. In my opinion, that’s why the book, minus, to-the-point cartoonish violence that’s spread thin throughout the pages.
A must read, but there is NO verifiable plot. It’s mainly tone, and commentary.
Another 5 star review
If you’re reading reviews and don’t already know that this novel is a must read for fans of psychological thrillers, save yourself some time, and dive right into this totally disturbing, bananas-crazy, creepy, bloody modern American classic.