A review by cayleejanet
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

Did not finish book. Stopped at 53%.

this was the worst 200 pages i’ve ever read. patrick as a character isn’t well written, like obviously the point isn’t to like him it’s to understand him, but nothing he does has any explanation past “he’s a psychopath”. fuck this book dude. and so much of it is just descriptions of what people are wearing and all the bullshit - i get that the point is about capitalism and apathy, but i seriously did not care. i could not begin to care about Ellis’ message or ideas. fuck this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Ableism, Animal death, Antisemitism, Blood, Child death, Death, Drug use, Violence, Torture, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Rape, Racism, Racial slurs, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, and Gore