My absolute favorite part of the book is a 4-5 page dinner reservation discussion. It is hard to imagine people so totally consumed with fashion, trends, wealth, elitism … and yet, I’ve known some (dated one), and the truth is very often stranger than fiction. The brilliance in this novel lies in the strong ties to reality. The last 100 pages contain the most gruesome things I’ve ever read, and I’ve read most Palahnuik.īret Easton Ellis built the main character’s madness masterfully. The sex scenes are intense and vividly described. This guy makes Dexter Morgan look like Ramona the Pest. There are an exceptional number of clever laugh-out-loud moments, although make no mistake, it’s dark humor. It’s a brilliant and biting social satire, with emphases on fashion, food, music (I’ve had Genesis songs stuck in my head for two days) – material wealth, status, fidelity (lack of), identity (lack of), etc. Love it (Reviewer A): “The controversial novel about a handsome serial killer who moves among the young and trendy in 1980s New York” perfectly describes what the book is about, but doesn’t give a hint about what the book is. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront. 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. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan.

Synopsis (from Amazon): 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. Make sure to vote in our poll at the bottom of the post even if you haven’t read it.īook: American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis This month’s selection is also on Boxall’s 1001 List of Books to Read before you Die. So the question is… do you Love it or Hate it? Continue reading to find see our two reviews. Many thanks to Charisma for helping us out last minute. I was the “Hate it” reviewer (to be fair I didn’t hate the book but I hated elements of it) and Charisma was the “Love it” reviewer. The results were close with the “Love its” taking 56%. Last month we discussed Stranger in A Strange Land by Heinlein. Welcome to the Love it or Hate it post! Each month, we’ll pick one book to review and two contributors will battle it out to convince you to pick it up or throw it out. Instead people either seem to love it or hate it. Have you ever noticed how some books seem to drive a wedge between people? You check the reviews and find almost no middle-of-the-road ratings.

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