American PsychoINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this modern classic, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront. “A masterful satire and a ferocious, hilarious, ambitious, inspiring piece of writing, which has large elements of Jane Austen at her vitriolic best. An important book.” —Katherine Dunn, bestselling author of Geek Love |
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User Review - stbyra - LibraryThingIf I could give this a negative review I would. I remember when this first came out, how everyone was raving about how groundbreaking and pushing the envelope it was. Bullshit. This is sick torture ... Read full review
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User Review - curious_squid - LibraryThingHard time determining stars on this book. It is a very powerful book that really sticks with you as you read it and after you are done. This has some of the most graphic and disturbing scenes I think ... Read full review
Contents
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Section 2 | 63 |
Section 3 | 70 |
Section 4 | 81 |
Section 5 | 114 |
Section 6 | 126 |
Section 7 | 133 |
Section 8 | 137 |
Section 16 | 256 |
Section 17 | 278 |
Section 18 | 306 |
Section 19 | 326 |
Section 20 | 330 |
Section 21 | 346 |
Section 22 | 347 |
Section 23 | 360 |
Section 9 | 142 |
Section 10 | 153 |
Section 11 | 161 |
Section 12 | 180 |
Section 13 | 224 |
Section 14 | 230 |
Section 15 | 247 |
Section 24 | 362 |
Section 25 | 371 |
Section 26 | 382 |
Section 27 | 385 |
Section 28 | 401 |
Section 29 | 403 |
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Page ix - Nevertheless, such persons as the composer of these Notes not only exist in our society, but indeed must exist, considering the circumstances under which our society has generally been formed.
Page ix - Underground," this person introduces himself, his views, and, as it were, tries to explain the reasons why he appeared and was bound to appear in our midst.
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Bibliographic information
| Title | American Psycho Vintage Contemporaries |
| Author | Bret Easton Ellis |
| Publisher | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010 |
| ISBN | 0307756432, 9780307756435 |
| Length | 416 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / Horror Fiction / Literary Fiction / Satire |
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