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zjames 's review for:
American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis
Hoo boy. This was the most graphic, morbid, sadistic, violent, and depraved book I have ever read and will hopefully ever read.
Think of the most violent horror movie you've ever seen and multiply it by a factor of 5-10. I do remember the movie being disturbing, but the book takes the violence to a much further level.
There's a lot of cleverness in the writing but Ellis doesn't seem to know when to stop or how to end the book. Bateman's life is a shallow, consumer-driven world where he feels empty and completely lacks empathy and so he resorts to ever more violent deeds in order to fulfill his fantasies.
This cycle of living a hollow, emotion-less life, and then following it up by an increasing sequence of depraved acts, repeats several times in the book to the point where it starts to get boring. It's like yeah yeah I get it, these people are bored and unhappy despite all the wealth and status and luxury they've obtained. Money doesn't buy you happiness. Shocker. Can we move on now?
Anyway, I gotta go return some video tapes.
Think of the most violent horror movie you've ever seen and multiply it by a factor of 5-10. I do remember the movie being disturbing, but the book takes the violence to a much further level.
There's a lot of cleverness in the writing but Ellis doesn't seem to know when to stop or how to end the book. Bateman's life is a shallow, consumer-driven world where he feels empty and completely lacks empathy and so he resorts to ever more violent deeds in order to fulfill his fantasies.
This cycle of living a hollow, emotion-less life, and then following it up by an increasing sequence of depraved acts, repeats several times in the book to the point where it starts to get boring. It's like yeah yeah I get it, these people are bored and unhappy despite all the wealth and status and luxury they've obtained. Money doesn't buy you happiness. Shocker. Can we move on now?
Anyway, I gotta go return some video tapes.