Welcome to Wall Street ~A boys club for wealthy bachelors.Where greed creates madness, and image is king!! Where loneliness is disguised by materialism. Where exclusivity fosters paranoia. Where the pursuit of success and violent impulses ignites evil, ultimately unleashing from beneath a black, double breasted Armani suit.American Psycho is one consistent, unrelenting, insatiable, racist, mysogynistic, obsessive, homophobic, possessive, bombastic, entitled, preverse, deranged stream of consciou...

This book shocked me. Though not for any of the reasons I might have expected.Not shocking fact #1: This book is about a psychopath.Yes, how very astute of me. I hadn't seen the movie before I picked American Psycho up, but most people who know a bit about books know a bit about Patrick Bateman. Despite this book not being very old, Bateman has a certain infamy amongst fictional serial killers and psychopaths. He is so wholly devoid of morality, completely disconnected from reality and human emo...

Jason, an old high school buddy, knew I was in Manhattan for a few nights and asked to meet up for dinner. Fuck it, I'm a sentimental guy, and it's nice to catch up -- even with a Wall Street douchebag. Jason told me that Lisa, another old friend, would be joining. Here's the conversational breakdown at dinner: 20 minutes: comparing features on their new Blackberries.40 minutes: the new Zagat guide and the city's best restaurants. 20 minutes: glib commentary on people we grew up with. Lisa leave...

THIS IS FULL OF SPOILERS - FULL TO THE BRIM. THESE ARE SOME MUSINGS THAT IN NO WAY RESEMBLE A BOOK REVIEW. YOU CAN READ IT, BUT I AM TELLING YOU STRAIGHT UP - THERE WILL BE SPOILERS. actually, it's not that bad, spoiler-wise.paul bryant recently reviewed/revised his review of this book (hi, paul bryant!) and i read it and the dozens of intelligent remarks his negative review sparked, both pro and anti-this book, and there isn't anything i can add to the discussion that hasn't already been said b...

I actually read this book a few years ago, but I stumbled across the Goodreads reviews of it, and felt I needed to add my voice, because it is such a difficult piece of lit in a lot of ways,and honestly, it probably is more deserving of a thesis paper than of a measly little review on Goodreads.American Psycho is a brilliant book. Genius. It will no doubt deservingly be remembered as Bret Easton Ellis's masterpiece, his tour-de-force of sadist misanthropy. I effing HATED it.American Psycho is a ...

(another update incorporating comments about BEE's latest novel - apparently he's still at it!)Before we start - a quote by Norman Mailer about Bret Easton Ellis : "How one wishes this writer was without talent!"*********People think the pages and pages of descriptions of hacking and chopping up women are ironic. Well, in one sense they are, but in another sense they aren't. People who like this book should ask themselves why they want to read pages and pages of descriptions of hacking and chopp...

⛧⛧⛧⛧⛧Awakening on the other side of catharsis, as if returning from a trip of unknown extent, baffled, amused and dumbfounded, I stepped out of Patrick Bateman's razorblade-cold stream of consciousness yet again with a sense of an even greater appreciation for this dark, controversial, satirical piece of art known as 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨. This book swept me away when I was first introduced to it many moons ago, and even now, after revisiting it years later, I still consider it to be one...

in my manic pixie dream girl erahttps://emmareadstoomuch.substack.com...as soon as i added this to my tbr, i received multiple comments, messages and missives by carrier pigeon telling me i was going to hate it. that is a surefire way to guarantee i'll read something, but not anytime soon.years passed.when i finally got to it, the hype was too much.i don't detest this book, just like i don't think it's The Most Shocking Read Ever or Unforgettable or A Modern Classic or any of those high-falutin'...

This book is TRUE. I live on an island of bankers, investment brokers and trust company lawyers and all of them are drunken, mad psychopaths with Jack Nicholson laughs and a propensity for getting into a lot of trouble at weekends.They drink and they snort and they screw and they sail and they make loads of money and every now and again some of them disappear never to be heard of again. The women, the secretaries and admin staff come out from the UK husband-hunting but quickly find they are the ...

Unholy...Shite!!This may be the only book I've rated 5 stars that I have NO intention of EVER reading again. Ever. After finishing this, I was forced to wait until my brain had cooled down and re-congealed before I could cogitate sufficiently to put my experience with this novel into words. And yet, even after almost 36 hours have ticked by, the only word that keeps bubbling up to the surface of my consciousness is...WOW...in both the good and not so good vareity. At first, I'd thought about try...