American Psycho

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In a black satire of the eighties, a decade of naked greed and unparalleled callousness, a successful Wall Street yuppie cannot get enough of anything, including murder. Now a major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films, released Spring 2000, 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.

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horrifying, but I couldn't put it down submitted by KOH on August 15, 2017, 10:41am A really fascinating, gory, darkly humorous, thought-provoking book.

Yuck submitted by EJZ on July 23, 2018, 8:42pm What stuck with me about this book was how incredibly gory it was. Fans of the movie will find much more graphic and disturbing things within the book. Not to my taste, perhaps I'm getting old. Well written certainly, but too much gore. Also get the feeling that Easton Ellis is a pretty messed up dude.

It's all about the 80s - and now (2010s) submitted by pepemama on August 7, 2019, 1:55pm This is not a horror or gore story. It is a vanity tale. I read it in the 80s (and two occasions since then)- the me generation. Patrick Bateman to me is the stuff that comes off when we create our vain "perfect" image. All of the bad stuff congeals into a mass, and that mass is Bateman. Just like in the current climate of youtube influencers, presidential tweets and reality stars; this is the world of Patrick Bateman. After reading this book you will feel as if you need to go to confession. But for me, some of that is because our values and priorities now seem to be even more shallow than in the 80s.

Intense, but Great submitted by MikkiMoscara on June 15, 2023, 9:14am I really liked this novel. It's a psychological thriller, and I found it interesting. It's great writing. The book is not for the squeamish, but it really drives into the psychology of a narcissis and a story of the times. The novel does a good job of putting you in 1980s Manhattan.