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American Psycho
 

American Psycho (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Bret Easton Ellis

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... (read more)

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vanz
  • Rated 5 stars

“violence is only a minimal part of the fascination (or repulsion) of this book. which is a masterpiece of writing and social critique. a breakthrough in literature for style an narration, in my opinion.

don't get annoyed by the apparent superficiality of the story and characters, and of the extreme use of shocking violence: it's not the novel, it's the society, and noone managed to depict it so clearly (and painfully) like Ellis. Palahniuk, maybe. and if you like Palahniuk you...”

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tmmercury
  • Rated 1 stars

“I don't care if a book has torture, rape, murder...unlimited violence, but leave the animals alone. Besides the random animal cruelty, I would have been able to finish this book.”

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Community:
  • Rated 4.008805 stars
Amazon:
  • Rated 3.666667 stars
  

Newest Comments

  • FU MANCHU

    fu manchu said:

    “American psycho - naughty boy”

    posted Friday, July 18 2008
  • Mark S

    mark s said:

    “There are fragments of this book that show signs of genius, but those are few and far between. Unfortunately, but to Ellis's luck, this book got great press for its unacceptable violence, which I must say was okay. It's definitely not the worst of his books (ie The Rules of Attraction), but it you want to read a great novel, it's all about Less Than Zero.”

    posted Friday, May 9 2008 ( | view 4 replies )
  • koopa matthew

    koopa matthew said:

    “this book is awful. the worst by far of all ellis' works.”

    posted Friday, May 2 2008
  • Geo

    geo said:

    “Es un libro impresionante, cada capítulo es una fina descripción mordaz de una mente asesina y bestial. La narración te va envolviendo al grado de estremecerte por el miedo. La película no le hace honor, por mucho, recomiendo el libro.”

    posted Wednesday, December 12 2007
  • srinidhi

    srinidhi said:

    “To add to what everyone has already said, this book is a very very well-written book, but i wouldn't recommend this to people who don't have a stomach for it, and a very large stomach at that, lol.”

    posted Monday, August 20 2007 ( | view 1 reply )
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