Name: American Psycho
Rating: 3.689373297002725 (367 reviews)
ISBN: 9780679735779

Bret Easton Ellis

Patrick Bateman is Harvard-educated and intelligent. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the one he was born with. His nights he spends in ways we cannot begin to fathom - doing impermissible things to women. He is living his own "American Dream."

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American Psycho

Amadeus Nicoya

Not really a book i would recommend. its a heavy lecture to be honest

strikingly relevant today, even relatable at times, worringly

Mikhail Sumygin

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.


i had to take breaks reading this because of the sheer gore. insane read. ellis’ writing is fantastic, juggling drastic changes in tone and writing the most unlikeable narrator imaginable but i still couldn’t put the book down. a LOT of slurs. 

james cao

An international bestseller and true modern classic Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and works on Wall Street; he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to a head-on collision with America's greatest dream - and its worst nightmare - American Psycho is a bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognize but do not wish to confront.Celebrating 40 years of outstanding international writing, this is one of the essential Picador novels reissued in a beautiful new series style.

Eva Ströberg

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This is a book that doesn’t age gracefully. I found it tedious and simply a bore while trying to plow thru the pages. Half of the books were probably references of designer names in the 80s (especially American ones, the last time I heard of Bill Blass since the early 90s)
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Patrick Bateman, the American psycho, is a narcissist who is a banker by day and murderer by night (or so he thought). He cares so much about his look and abhors others. His life is filled with hanging out with banker friends in night club and snorting cocaines while violating women is also his middle name. 
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I swear, there’s nothing interesting about this book that isn’t on repeat already since chapter 1. Sorry not sorry
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been reading this shit since november. one of the rare times where the movie is better than the book. patrick bateman, you are so annoying and i’m glad to not be in your head anymore.

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Molly M

i don’t think i really liked it so much as i appreciated it. definitely a horror story. also i think this guy is using satire as a guise to air his racist and sexist ideas.

Colton Ray

Whatever I was expecting from this book, I didn't get. I was hoping for some critique or insight into the depths of Wall Street yuppies and white-collar sociopaths in 1980s New York. Instead, I got a strange, disjointed journey of one supremely dysfunctional man and his nightly crimes, interspersed with his diatribes on pop music and his vapid meanderings with even more vapid friends. Much name-dropping of Donald Trump, which was jarring due to present consequences, but accurate, as he's always been the proto-Patrick Bateman (apart from (view spoiler)[the murdering and cannibalism, of course.) (hide spoiler)] Aside from his run-ins with celebrities of the time - an awkward elevator meeting with Tom Cruise and a concert where he meets Bono - the book is frustratingly linear and one-note.

The book is really no more or less than that. There's nothing really to learn here aside from sociopaths being broken and empty (which I suppose might be the point) but I don't see much use for nihilism for nihilism's sake. Yes, we get that Patrick is a detached psycho; we don't need pages of prurient detail for (view spoiler)[how he rips out intestines and shoots children in the head (hide spoiler)]. It's shocking, but I would find more value in reading the manifestos and ramblings of actual serial killers instead of a fictional one, and I don't even think there's that much value in either. 

I would never recommend this to anyone, but for some reason, I wanted to see American Psycho through to the end, which of course was anti-climactic (view spoiler)[though I think a little darkly clever, as he confesses but no one will believe him (hide spoiler)]. I might have enjoyed the movie better as a more dramatic and condensed version. At 400 pages, the book is simply too prolonged and pronounced. Ellis clearly has talent and a vision; it's just not one that I find especially worthwhile.

Expresses the sometimes frightening juxtaposition of humanity and exposes those who hide behind a facade of deceit to show the evil that lurks. 

Rebecca

Irvine Welsh

annalyse! 

an excruciating read. the only positive is the fact that i’ll never have to read this book ever again.

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