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.
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【Dressed to impress on a trip to nowhere】 Bret Easton Ellis "American Psycho" is one of those books where you just can't take the middle road. It tells the story of Patrick Bateman, a young, good looking financier who escapes the gross materialism that has invaded Manhattan of the 1980's by taking drugs, having sex and what else . . oh yeah killing people as graphically as possible. Most opinions will involve either the word "boring" or "genius". Other opinions might begin with "eeew gross" or "stylish." No matter what the opinion you either love this book or you hate it, there's just no stradling the fence. Unless your personality is a bit off, you won't be able to finish this book. You will either be bothered by the extreme levels of violence (Ellis redefines "rat trap"), or you won't be able to wade through the first very slow moving beginning. If the violence bothers you, there's nothing I can suggest. Go read Judy Blume, or get that donation to Jerry Falwell in the mail. Unfortunately I have heard people say the book is too slow moving in the beginning. They just can't wade through Bateman's droning about clothes, shampoos and restaurants. "Who cares if he likes Phil Collins?" the masses ask. "What does Donald Trump's car have to do with anything?" Come on people, that is the actual satirical part of this satirical novel. It is a commentary on the "Me Generation." Ellis takes aim at the financial capital of the world and hits the people that make it go with both barrels. Although this book has an ultimately depressing message about the nature of modern (or post-modern) life, it is also one of the most darkly funny books I have read in a long time. (Patrick's enthusiastic ravings about some of the worst music ever produced in the eighties are particularly comical). All in all, I reckon you should brace yourself for the carnage, prepare to come away knowing more about skin care routines (and 80's synth pop) than you should and give it a read.★★★★★