American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis Reviews

Seen, and liked, the movie? This book on which the film was based will blow your mind! Bret Easton Ellis' writing skills create pictures in your mind, which are far more gruesome than the director or producer of a movie could ever come up with.The book is set in the mid-eighties Wall Street. Well I presume it is Wall Street because that is ...  Read the complete review

What a fun-tastic book. It's what we all needed to read about, at just the right time. The guy has no morals (who has nowadays); he takes the limits of morality and cuts them to pieces. I can't praise this book enough; I dont want to talk about the book itself too much, that would spoil it for anyone out there who hasn't read it yet ...  Read the complete review

I bought this book after seeing the film, in the hope that reading the book would make the film more understandable. Unfortunately, I was wrong. It only made it worse. 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 ...  Read the complete review

American Psycho is essential, a revealing insight into current society. The book focuses on the life of Patrick Bateman, the "perfect" businessman; smart, educated, well-mannered and obsessed with how he is perceived by his business companions/friends. He is also a terrifying psychopath with a propensity towards sudden and incredible ...  Read the complete review

I bought and read this book when it first came out, during all the controversy. After finally finding a shop that actually stocked it, as several had banned it here in Glasgow, i started it and found that i could not put it down. And i have since read it a second time. The story is about Patrick Bateman, a Wall Street Business type by ...  Read the complete review

American Psycho is the one book that I own that I have made all of my friends read! While parts are sickeningly umcomfortable and the descriptions wildly vivid in places, there is no denying that this is one book that once you've picked it up, you will never put it back down. I read it through in one go; I just couldn't find a place to ...  Read the complete review

Patrick Bateman is a very neat and well dressed yuppy. Being quite high up in his fathers company he is quite well off aswell. Oh and he also kills people. The book is kind of his confession about his unusual habbit. The book takes us very graphically, through a few years of his life. Be warned...if you're squemish you may not like ...  Read the complete review

American Psycho is not an easy book to read -it is highly offensive, and much of the action is quite disturbing. It's easy to criticise the book for these faults - I really never have read a book as sickening as this However - the book is good, it tells the story of Patrick Bateman, a late-eighties young, upwardly mobile New York ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

I think this novel is fantastic! The way Ellis takes the reader into the mind of a psychopath obsessed with people's appearances and killing and depressed at the sad things in the world (e.g. the homeless) is frighteningly believable and frightening. Aside from the main story the novel is also packed with plenty of themes and ideas that are ...  Read the complete review

American Psycho is billed as a black comedy, but quite frankly there is nothing amusing about Patrick Bateman or his twisted and very sick pass times. This book, amongst other things, is boring. Patrick Bateman is obsessed with what people are wearing, what they are eating and where they are eating it. This means that American Psycho is pages ...  Read the complete review

I did enjoy this book BUT it is not for anyone squeemish as at certain parts things are writen in great detail and i found myself having to read it again just to make sure it said what i thought it did!!, it does also get a bit too strange in some parts!!! the constant review of what everyone they guy meets is wearing i think is there to proove ...  Read the complete review

I read American Psycho (several times) about 7 or 8 years ago. It still sticks in my head as one of the most powerful books I’ve read, having left me feeling as if my soul had been scrubbed with a brillo pad. The book potters along nicely for the first hundred pages building up a vivid picture of “the heroes” angry but dull, ...  Read the complete review

All my friends told me to stay clear of this book due to its "sick" "twisted" content, but after reading the first hundred pages or so I wondered what all the fuss was about. It was just detailing the life of this yuppie. What he liked to wear what he thought of other peoples dress sense and what restaurants he liked to dine ...  Read the complete review

American Psycho is a clever, and misunderstood satire on the eighties, and an excellent serial killer novel. Yes, there is little to no plot - it is a sequence of events and encounters - but this is the point, Easton Ellis is putting forward his views on the emptiness and materialism of America. Patrick Bateman is an ingenious ...  Read the complete review

Patrick Bateman is 26, handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He works on Wall Street by day earning a fortune. At night he spends it in ways we cannot begin to understand. Patrick Bateman is also a psychopath. Bret Easton Ellis's bitter and aversive second novel takes us on a head-on collision with America's greatest dream ...  Read the complete review

This is the worst book I have ever read in my life. It would suit someone who havs lost the plot and has to read about some one with a really twisted mind. I read about the first chapter, recommended I may add by people who I thought had a good sense of logic and sensitivity. I ab. Love a good read, but in honest opinion it has just been written ...  Read the complete review

I have never been in a situation where in hated a book so much that I couldn't put it down, however bizarre that may sound! I enjoy reading forensic/ crime thrillers, but the gore and mutilation that this book contained were far too much for me. Having said that though I still couldn't put this book down, I guess that I wanted to see ...  Read the complete review

This is a book that divides opinion – you either get it or you don’t. It’s not really about a serial killer – it’s about 80/90’s greed and the blandness of the Wall Street traders who ran rampant during that era. Our narrator is Patrick Bateman, a successful trader with a secret – he kills people for fun. ...  Read the complete review

I have to admit I bought this book on the internet and sent it back for a refund after having very quickly read it. Couldn't bear to have this piece of trash on my bookshelf. This is just a "feel bad" book, it's boring most of the time, the style is poor, the characters are hateful and it tries to be shocking but tries too ...  Read the complete review