American Psycho

i really like this book. it's quite hilarious though the violence is hard to stomach. a biting indictment of the greed is good era.

Insane, but good.

Few things more disturbing than witnessing a single guy sitting out by the apartment pool reading this and laughing aloud. Imagine what they thought of me.

Somewhat disturbing but SO interesting how the mind of a schizophrenic and sociopath works, especially as the book progresses. I can't wait to read it again--I'm sure I'll pick up on all kinds of nuances the more times it's read.

Keeping tabs on everything, yet being nothing, and getting away with everything. Commenting on the late 80's

WHAT.A.BOOK!

Wow, I've read this book how many times now, maybe three? And yet every time I open to the first page again and read, "ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE" it just grips me with a new cold curiosity of what I may have missed. A chaotically original tale of a Wall Street serial killer driven by greed, and fueled by contempt for those closest to him. The reader is strapped in for what is nothing less than a haywire ride through the mind of a murderer.

A stunning insight into the dark, cold reality of the extremes of Americanism: success, greed, vanity, consumerism. When one fully understands the underlying realities of the 'American Dream' then they would find themselves rooting for the protagonist. Bateman is the monster and America, the Frankenstein. Everything in the book, from the people and language, to the products and personalities are sticly American. Patrick Bateman and what he symbolizes is, after all, solely an American creation.

One of the greatest books I have ever read.

Excellent book, an unabridged version of the movie of course. The amazing thing is as much as I know Bateman is a joke, I still find myself wanting to be that rich, good looking, oversexed consumerist that he is. It's one of the thing that fascinates me most, in between all of the murder, of course.

No No NO. Avoid.

cool but not so cool