Set primarily during the late '80s, Bret Easton Ellis' "American Psycho" is a scathing (and often explicit) satire on the excessess of wealth and its dehumanizing effect on the main character, Patrick Bateman - a Wall Street investor by day and a psychopathic serial killer by night. Ellis' graphic descriptions of violence and sexual sadism (barely even touched on in the film adaptation, starring C... read more
Description: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 deNow 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.... (more)(less)
Manufacturer : Vintage Release date : 1 March 1991 ISBN-10 : 0679735771 |
ISBN-13: 9780679735779
"Patrick Bateman.
There's metrosexual, and then there's homosexual. Poor Bateman seems to have snapped because he refused to admit that he prefers to pitch for the other team.
The killing, the insanity, the superficiality...I can forgive all of that in Bateman, but what I couldn't stand was his inane knowledge of brand names.
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"I have heard alot of good things about Bret Easton Ellis and was eager to read some of his work. I only ever read this novel by him, but I was told that American Pscycho was his magnum opus.
Sadly, it was very disappointing.
It seemed that the author was padding the novel with trivial things to hide the fact that there wasn't much action going on.
There were entire chapters dedicated to petty trivia I was not very interested in."
theglenntucker added this to a list 2 years, 4 months ago
"What is is about? Set in Manhattan and beginning on April Fools' Day 1989, American Psycho spans roughly three years in the life of wealthy young investment banker Patrick Bateman. Bateman, 26 years old when the story begins, narrates his everyday activities, from his daily life among the upper-class elite of New York to his forays into murder by nightfall.
Personal note: What a book! Again, it is still very bleak and I won't say it is a feel-good book... But it is so spellbinding. Loved the "
The_Dash08 added this to a list 2 years, 7 months ago
"This is literally the best book I have ever read. The movie does not compare to how great this novel is, but Christian Bale is perfect to picture in the place of Patrick Bateman."
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