I hate this book (American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis)

Member Name: number63

Product:	American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Date:	20/11/00 (20 review reads)
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Advantages: At least you can say you've read it

Disadvantages: Well, it's rubbish

Maybe writing the seventeenth opinion on this waste of a good tree is more of a favour to it than anything else, but anything I can do to bring its rating down, I will.

There's not much point in going over the details of this story: yuppie obsesses over clothes and business cards, kils people, but MAYBE he doesn't...all very mysterious. Had it been half the length, it might have been a far better book. And, to be fair to him, Ellis has written better, so maybe it's not all that fair to him that this is his most famous offering.

As it stands, 'American Psycho' contains far too many obsessive descriptions of Armani suits for my liking, and chapter-length dissertations of the merits of Phil Collins work far better on film (where they last maybe a minute and a half) than they do in print. The famous scenes of murder and torture, while occasionally gruesome, are not exactly features likely to make a book worth reading. By the time I'd trudged through 400 pages of this pigswill, I was angry for having wasted so much precious time.

It can't be a bad thing that 'American Psycho' is now a film. An hour and a half is about as much of your life as you should be willing to give it, and at least now, people don't have to read it.

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