American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis Reviews

Patrick Bateman (otherwise known as the "Anti-hero") is a handsome, rich, well-educated, and intelligent man. He works on Wall Street and has many friends, all of whom are very similar to Bateman: shallow, empty and cruel. He is often referred to as "the boy next door," a very misguided description, by the way. He tortures and ...  Read the complete review

came highly recommended to me this book, by people whose opinions i'dd always trusted. for the first few chapters i wasn't enamoured. the detailed descriptions of colleagues clothing and hygiene rituals were tedious. then suddenly i was hooked. all the previous detail had given me an insight into what a f***** up man patrick bateman is. thing is, ...  Read the complete review

I have high earning relatives in London so I was introduced to the concept of 'young upwardly mobile persons' from a young age, and being from Newcastle, taught that these were a very dislikable breed. Ellis agrees with this in his book which is not really about a serial killer but a satire of 80s capitalist America, a time when Ronald ...  Read the complete review

Clawing its way back into the bestseller lists after the release of the movie adaptation, this book is probably the best guide to the ethical ecology of Ronald Reagan's America: greed as a creed. Greed for money, greed for status, and greed for power. Greed made flesh in the shape of the Über-yuppie Patrick Bateman, whose psychopathy and ...  Read the complete review