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...

¡Mierda santa!Este puede ser el único libro al que le he dado 5 estrellas y que NO tengo la intención de volver a leer JAMÁS. Jamás. Después de terminarlo, me vi obligado a esperar a que mi cerebro se enfriara y se recompusiera antes de poder reflexionar lo suficiente para poner en palabras mi experiencia con esta novela. Y, sin embargo, incluso después de casi 36 horas, la única palabra que sigue burbujeando en la superficie de mi conciencia es... WOW...tanto en el buen sentido como en el no ta...

Jason, un viejo amigo del instituto, sabía que estaría en Manhattan unas noches y me pidió que nos viéramos para cenar. Al diablo, soy un tipo sentimental, y es agradable ponerse al día, incluso con un imbécil de Wall Street. Jason me dijo que Lisa, otra vieja amiga, se uniría a nosotros. Así fue el desglose de la conversación en la cena:20 minutos: comparando las características de sus nuevas Blackberries.40 minutos: la nueva guía Zagat y los mejores restaurantes de la ciudad.20 minutos: coment...

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 ...