Customer Reviews
My first BEE novel - By: N. P. Preston, 16 Dec 2008 
This is my first book by BEE & only casually picked it upin the bookshop.
Its a well written book, not for the faint hearted as it can be quite graphic indetail & some parts rather disturbing (I cringed heavily when he mentions the animals)
I loved the intricate detail he put into every action & throughout the book I was imagining each detail, I wont go into too much detail as it will spoil the book.
The book is very dark & yet I managed to burst out with laughterin a few parts, Im not quite sure if that makes me crazy...
I thoroughly enjoyed the book, & am looking forward to reading another novel by BEE.
Reader will enjoy this book if they are fans of Palanuhiks works also.
The most pointless book I've ever read. - By: M. Saxby, 23 Jul 2008 
Yep, without doubt.
It's shocking, no doubt, but mainlyin its inanity...
The constant references to Labels, restaurants, bars & clubs, the obsession with physical fitness, the racism, the sterotypical 'Wall Street workers', the gratuitous, graphic violence & sex all become deeply tedious VERY quickly...
And... as soon as they do you realise there's no storyin this book.
I thought I must have missed some deep meaningin this 'work', but I suspect the point the writer thought he was making is so 80s that it really doesn't have any meaning today anyway.
Other reviewers talk about how it's poking fun at the Yuppies - Duh... if you don't get thatin the first 3 pages you're probably on a life support machine.
This book could be subtitled "Irony for Dummies", it's so heavy-handed.
This is one of only two books that I've given up on part way through (and don't bother to say it all comes clearin the last third as it's now recycled into something useful, like toilet roll... Actually I'll admit I skim read the last 100 pages after originally writing this & THEN recycled it - The last 100 pages were rubbish too...)
It read like it was written by a 14 year old trying to upset his parents.
Waste your life, if you wish, but I'll not waste another second on this...
I'll never let a stranger perform oral sex on me, ever! - By: Ms. S. Cottee, 15 Jul 2008 I'm a bit confused as to why other readers have said this is a black comedy, I laughed once! Perhpas if i had read thisin the early nineties it may have resonated with me more. But it didn't. The only thing that kept me going, was the wanting to know "where is the stuff of the reviews read?"
I'm not a page skipper, but I did indeed skip through a lot of the boring detail over designer labeling. There were no descriptives other than Bill Blass & the rest of the unheard of (to most of us) hoards of designers.
I feel fobbed off when a writer leaves the ending with no ending, I need closure, American Psycho doesn't leave that. I wanted him caught & beaten to a pulp as nasty as the pulps he had beaten his victims to. What does that say about me!! This book will, if it hasn't already stop many peoplein their tracks when thinking about having some wild or spontaneous sex with someone we really don't know. So it might do for the human race what condoms & AIDs warning couldn't. There may be less STD's around now if it was written a lot sooner. I for one will never ever have oral sex with a stranger or even half stranger again. I will seriously think twice about perhaps three times before I even goin for a cup of coffee. What sort of impression does this book leave with society's young people, the impressionable ones. There's already enough machete weilding tenagers out there now. I wouldn't be suprised if most of them had read this book. The gore & torture only gets worse the deeper into the chapters you go. BUT & thank god at least he stops yabbering on about designer labels & his bloody 100 assorted different face creams, we actually get some good writingin parts, I enjoyed maybe a page until the torture started again. Oh & the chapters on his favourite music, well if I'd wanted a music review I'd have gotten a copy of rolling stone.Its an inconsistent read, for example: as he leaves us at the end of one chapter about to go on a date with (lets say) Evelyn. At the start of the next chapter the girl has a new name a differnet girl! Oh & he gets called by all sorts of names throughout, to the point where i started thinking, has this guy got multiple personalities not just the two, Mr Boring & Mr Psycho. His head isin such a mess that I as a reader was just as confused..I'm sorry to damn it as he's had rave reviews for this peice of work. But its not funny, its sick & I do wonder what goes onin the minds of the reviewers so far that find it an amusing read. Yes it is a banal & superficial world he portrays, but its not done well. Or perhaps i'm just not sick enough.
I love this book - By: Starkweather, 23 Oct 2007 
I only read this book after I seen the film, which is portrayed wonderfully by Christian Bale. The book itself is the blackest of comedies with a hint of sarcasm about it. The violencein American Psycho, which is described down to the closest of details, is only a small part of the book as a whole. The rest of it is about the day-to-day life of an American businessman who is rich, good-looking but rarely happy & those are the most entertaining parts for me.
You may find it heavy going having to read the over-described details on everything from fashion to electrical products, but trust me, it gets easier. As I write this I struggle to pinpoint exactly why this book is entertaining, it just is. It's funny, quirky, sarcastic & plain sick all at once & it can play tricks with your mind. The interaction between characters is comical, as everyone is so self absorbed that half the time they don't know who one another are. But that doesn't really matter: having the right suit, business card & restaurant reservations are important. It's the 80's & image is everything to yuppies livingin New York city.
one of my favourite books - By: Hambletta-Maud, 22 Sep 2007 bret easton ellis writes beautifully crafted sentences - of that there is no doubt. evenin the more unsavoury parts of this novel (e.g. when the character of patrick bateman is being sarcastic, racist, homophobic, misogynistic, as he kills & tortures, during his innermost thought, & evenin his detailed descriptions of situations & objects, the words used by bret easton ellis are chosen just right).
a highly entertaining gluttony of wholesale slaughter, unbridled paranoia, complete & utter self-loving & self-loathing & vacuousness. read it for yourself.
