Published: 1991
Author: Bret Easton Ellis
Genres: Adult, Crime Fiction, Literary, Satire, Fiction, Lawyers & Criminals, Self-Help, Psychology, Humor & Comedy, Horror, Dark Humor, Urban Life, Vintage Contemporaries
Check the summary of this book here:
Cutthroat capitalism, Reagan economics, Wall Street, cocaine, AIDS, nightclubs, awesome pop music, and serial killers are all part of this graphic novel's depiction of the 1980s decade. The author was placed on the FBI's watch list after the publication of this book.
My copy of the book had a psycho joke in it, and many of the pages were out of order, forcing me to go forwards and backward every few pages, but I still enjoyed it and thought it was a new trick by the publisher or author. If anyone else had the same problem, please leave a comment or send me a message and let me know if it was just me or if everyone had the same jumbled book.
I admit that I first watched the movie before reading the book. The movie and the book, in my opinion, are both fantastic, but they aren't always the same in some parts, and that was a great learning experience for me because it shows an idea can be executed In two different ways and you can still get an amazing result from both. Plus I enjoyed the main character in both versions. I am not a psycho but I laughed so much at a lot of things he did.
Christian Bale did this role perfectly as with any role he does and he made this character so fascinating to watch. I think it was possible to do all that this character did in those times but now it is not possible because of the technology and I miss those books and stories because today's authors must be very inventive in order to get around all of the advanced technology, such as a camera in every corner and hand.
Because of what the main character does and thinks, some parts of the book may offend some readers. So don't read or watch the movie if you're easily offended or can't handle gore and murder.
I'm not going into detail because I consider this book and its main character to be an art piece, and I don't want to spoil it for readers who think the same way I do, so just read the book and then watch the movie if you haven't already, and enjoy the art that few can fully understand.
Synopsis:
“INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this modern classic, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other.
Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.
“A masterful satire and a ferocious, hilarious, ambitious, inspiring piece of writing, which has large elements of Jane Austen at her vitriolic best. An important book.” —Katherine Dunn, bestselling author of Geek Love”
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Rating: 100/100
Recommended: 100/100 Yes.
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