booknerdpride 's review for:

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

1.5

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I hate that you read the first 50 pages of this and know exactly what to expect for the rest of the novel. I do believe that Bret Easton Ellis is a deeply talented writer, and I fell in love with his most recent novel, The Shards. This just… dragged. Consider yourself briefed with a trigger warning for every hateful topic you can think of, with a backbone of raging misogyny. I get it, I just don’t like it. Plain and simple. Even Ellis himself gets uncomfortable when people say they love his book. I take no shame in letting a book not connect to me because the character was that  terrible. Good writing, lousy story. 10/10, wouldn’t read again… But still impressed by the damn writing… the detail….