American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis Reviews

It's 1980. It's America - Wall Street - and the Yuppie is king. Double breasted power suits, slicked-back hair, leather briefcases and executive toys - in the land of the highly-paid, workshy executive, image is everything. The image Patick Bateman give off is a professional - he has the designer underwear, the des res, the expensive ...  Read the complete review

Right. Serial Killer. New York City. Tons of victims. Is there anything else to this book? Well, all the characters are extremely shallow, partially because they are not alive long enough for the reader to gain and insight into what they are like as a person. But even the main characters (they dont die): Evelyn, Jean, Paul Owen excert a very ...  Read the complete review

Worryingly (as you may tell by the books title) this is my favourite book. To give a small, non-spoiler preface to the events in the book this is a story about Patrick Bateman, the epitome of the 1980s yuppie. He is obsessive compulsive about the various things that he either loves or requires to fit within his self styled idea of ...  Read the complete review

What a quality novel. To enjoy this fully you need to move past the gore, blood and quite frankly sickening parts, and look at the underlying message and themes of the book. Sure, you can read this for a cheap thrill (if this kind of stuff floats your boat). But to get more out of it, think of the setting and think of the main character. ...  Read the complete review

Being one of those odd people who is truly fascinated by violent crime and people's motives for it (mainly because I can't possibly imagine anything motivating me to commit a violent crime...), I thought I'd really enjoy reading American Psycho. Hailed as a literary masterpiece by many, an unnecessarily gory romp by others, it seemed to contain ...  Read the complete review

American Psycho - A great read if you think you can stomach it! Brett Easton-Ellis you are my hero. This is a seminal book for me, whether you were born in the 80's, lived through it or are discovering shoulder pads, big hair and nouvelle cuisine for the first time. It is impossible to justify the actions of Bateman however you cant ...  Read the complete review

Author: Bret Easton Elllis Publish Date: April 1991 Number of Pages: 399 Age Suitability: Strictly for adults with strong stomachs RRP: £7.99 Amazon Price: from £3.15 I, like most was aware of the stigma that followed American Psycho before I decided to read it. Perhaps the stigma and warnings of graphic ...  Read the complete review

You see, you may not get it. You may be so mainstream that you feel a book has to have a beginning, middle and end - how quaint. This book, more than any other by the author and certainly by the benchmark of modern authors, casts aside the dull and restricive notion of the novel structure. Thank God! This book starts in the middle, has ...  Read the complete review

A man with two quite separate lives, a man with two quite different outward personas. This is the story of a successful, rich, capable 26 year old American city trader who, beneath his polished veneer is a psychopath. He kills for fun and revels in the agony of others. How can these two sides to his nature co-exist and how do his friends ...  Read the complete review

American Psycho is a stunning and beautiful jouney into the mind of an individual who"just wants to fit in". The reader embarks on a wonderful excursion into the skull of New York yuppie Patrick Bateman. What I wouldn't give to be able to go back in time and read this book for the first time. Up to the present, I have read the ...  Read the complete review

American Psycho, one of the most contraversial books of recent times... one of the most popular, too, as it is consistently voted high in surveys on people's favourite books. So I guess I'm going to have a lot of people disagreeing with me when I say that personally, I think its also one of the most overrated... For those of ...  Read the complete review

American Psycho undeniably has a cult following and to give Ellis his due the subject matter and literary style do even today come accross as being both fresh and raw. From this perspective I would agree that American Psycho is probably a groundbreaking work. The novel centres around Patrick Bateman, yuppie and paid up subscriber of the ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

I saw the film of American Psycho and thought it was superb, having always previously found that "the book is always better than the film" I had to buy the book immediately! Once again it was true - the book is truly a masterpiece, both as a work of fiction and as social comment. Patrick Bateman is both a hero and an anti-hero for our ...  Read the complete review

I've read "American Psycho" by B.E. Ellis, ten years after its publication. I don't know why I've been waiting for such a long time before reading it but when I saw the trailer of Mary Harron's movie I said: "I must read that book". While reading I was always guessing how that book could be put into a ...  Read the complete review

First of all I would like to clarify that I read the book about 3 years before the film came out when my brother was in the middle of reading the Easton-Ellis books(I point this out because the film is not as good and I would advise reading the book FIRST!).The important thing with this book is to remember that there is a lot of butchery later on ...  Read the complete review

This was going to be called, THIS IS NOT AN EXIT, but someone else stole that, so, well... “ ‘…So what did Ed Say?’ Hamlin asks, interested. ‘He said,’ I begin, ‘When I see a pretty girl walking down the street I think two things. One part of me wants to take her out and talk to her ...  Read the complete review

When i began to write this it turned out i need it for an essay, so it is a bit long winded. Sorry about that. I got good marks though!! Probably be locked, but least you can read it. Patrick Bateman is twenty-six years old, he works on Wall Street at a firm called “Pierce and Pierce”. He is described as ...  Read the complete review

Probably one of the most misunderstood books of all time, American Psycho, follows the life of one man, Patrick Bateman, where he lives an upper class lifestyle in America in the 1980s ‘greed is good culture’. Although Patrick has a very successful job, is well educated and seemingly well mannered he hides a sinister secret, he is a ...  Read the complete review

American psycho is a brutal but brilliantly satirical insight into the eighties business class America, and shows sometimes all too accurately the dangerous power of money. It is terrifying in its detail, but hugely witty and stunningly written. Easton-Ellis has a unique style which is captivating and very easy to read. For the ...  Read the complete review