Psycho oh my god you are a psycho!! (American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis)

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Product:	American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Date:	17/09/01 (3 review reads)
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Advantages: action, thrilling

Disadvantages: not more books

American Pyscho follows a Wall Street banker, Patrick Bateman, who also happens to be a blood thirsty killer.

It offers an insight into how the rich, one whom Bateman is one, look down in disgust at those in the gutter, and shows us how futile the life of the upper classes are.

If this was all that the novel dealt with, I could probably accept it. However, he has a bad habit of describing in detail everything that everyone is wearing. including himself, something that I found amusing at first, but as I progressed through the book, just iritated me.

Some of the passages which describe some of his murders are just disturbing, and I was left disgusted on several occasions, so disgusted infact that I had to put the book down.

This was a book that I struggled to finish. I kept on wanting to reach the end, but whenever I did read it, it never engrossed me so much that I found it hard to put down.

I did enjoy the film, but novel I didn't find a good advertisement for Mr Easton-Ellis' other work. I won't be rushing out to make other purchases of it, anyway.

I did say that I read the book in an attempt to help me understand the film, but now I am tempted to go and rent the film inorder to help me understand the book.

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