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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I loved both Glamorama (by far my favorite of his books) and The Rules of Attraction, so I picked this book up last spring. What a mistake! The themes Ellis covers here are more elegantly discussed in Glamorama, and the characters much more interesting and relatable (despite their vapidity and foolishness) in the later novel. I say skip this book, rent the Christian Bale movie, and check out a copy of Glamorama instead. (  ) krysbrezinski | Oct 27, 2009 |  This book ate into my brain when I read it, even though it consists mostly of lists of product and brand names. (  ) hilaritas | Oct 19, 2009 | This book ate into my brain when I read it, even though it consists mostly of lists of product and brand names. ( ) hilaritas | Oct 19, 2009 | Ellis really uses style to his advantage here and I love the result. It's a great picture even if obviously over-wrought and just seething at the seams. The negative reactions to this book tend to be focused on "it's too violent" which I think is pretty stupid and misses the point entirely. Also, I find it offensive that women's group tried to get it banned for its scenes of violence against women, as if it would be perfectly alright to have a book wherein men where brutally tortured, and also ignoring the fact that it's obviously a critique. That's my rant. Read it before you judge it. (  )1  phette23 | Oct 19, 2009 | I was looking forward to finally reading this novel and I have to say it was a bit of a struggle. The struggle wasn't because of the violence or sex -- those are the good parts -- but by the monotony of Bateman's life. There was a point about half way through that I wanted to scream "Ok already, I get it!" but on and on it went. As much as it pains me to say this, I think I liked the movie better. ( ) sareidia | Oct 2, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0679735771, Paperback)Now a major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films starring Christian Bale (Metroland), Chloe Sevigny (The Last Days of Disco), Jared Leto (My So Called Life), and Reese Witherspoon (Cruel Intentions), and directed by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol).In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. 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. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:08 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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