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1075 reviews
Bret Easton Ellis

Vintage, 1991

This Is NOT An Exit
'American Psycho' is a satire of the 1980's (among other subjects) centered around narrator Patrick Bateman who is the yuppie-to-end-all-yuppies. Though the humor is as dark as possible, it's true to Ellis and true to the story. I cannot find any failure whatsoever with this book. For readers who complain parts are "boring" or "gross": I would tell you that this is not accidental. Bret Easton ...

The Informers

76 reviews
Bret Easton Ellis

Vintage, 1995

Outstanding, yet least read book by BEE
Each chapter, or should I say story, of this book is very well written. Each character has a different voice, and all stories are interested. I have trouble trying to understand why this book is not more popular amongst readers and BEE fans alike.

American Psycho

10 reviews
Bret Easton Ellis

Picador, 2000

An engaging social satire
I relaxed on my Ethan Allen couch to read Bret Easton Ellis's late-1980's Manhattan-of-yuppie-excess thriller, American Psycho. I had to put it down to dine on quail sashimi with peach ravioli and baby soft-shell crabs with grape jelly, and after dinner I noted that the Vintage Contemporary cover was a far from ideal surface to snort cocaine off. After donning my Valentino Lycra sports outfit, ...

Lunar Park

123 reviews
Bret Easton Ellis

Vintage, 2006

Ellis delivers again
I found this to be one of the most bizarre, creative, and entertaining books I've ever read. It's so hard to describe, though, that I've had to leave and come back to this review a dozen times! Ellis, who shot to what was really unprecedented stardom in both literary and Hollywood circles with Less Than Zero, then followed it up with one of the most controversial publishing events in ...

AMERICAN PSYCHO (PICADOR THIRTY)
BRET EASTON ELLIS

PICADOR, 2002

Less Than Zero

223 reviews
Bret Easton Ellis

Vintage, 1998

Ignore the movie version, read the book, it's (unfortunately) pitch-perfect
Ellis is an expert at chronicling the callow consumerism and nihilism of a particular breed of American wealth. He hits it here. These characters aren't at all overblown. They are incredibly shallow. They are exactly as shallow as they would be if they were actually alive. If you don't know people who are exactly like this then you've never known anyone from Sherman Oaks or Beverly Hills. And ...

American Psycho

7 reviews
Bret Easton Ellis

MacMillan, 1997

Don't look at it through your own eyes.
I've read various Amazon readers' American Psycho reviews over the past couple years and find that most of them either loved or hated the book. Most of them get that the author is using satire and most of them can describe for you a nice summary, including the crux of the work: are those murders real or imagined; that is, is Bateman really a psychotic killer, or is he a harmless loser who takes ...

The Rules of Attraction

131 reviews
Bret Easton Ellis

Vintage, 1998

Perfectly Written
After reading "Less Than Zero" I was excited to give another Bret Easton Ellis novel a try, and this turned out to be one of those books I never wanted to end. Every page was full of something interesting and thought provoking and what at times seemed shocking also seemed like the harsh, honest truth. And this has become one of my favorite novels that I know I'll read over and over again. ...

Glamorama (Vintage Contemporaries)

311 reviews
Bret Easton Ellis

Vintage, 2000

You have to read the whole book
Yes, it does seem like a lot of name dropping and hipsterisms in the opening hundred pages or so, but that is just laying the foundation for the huge story to come. This is probably my all time favorite novel, way better than American Psycho.