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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Vacuous decadence taken to the extreme. There are passages I had to skip for fear of hurling, but Ellis nails the lack of morality and compassion in today's up and coming elite. It's what replaces the emptiness that's frightening. (  )1   jwcooper3 | Nov 15, 2009 |  I really liked this when I read it, though it seems silly now. (  ) ccavaleri | Nov 13, 2009 | 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 |  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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