If you are thinking of reading American Psycho, be prepared to laugh, be prepared to gag, and be prepared to see the most horrible side of American society. The impact of this book will knock you off your feet. It’s not only shocking, at some point you just think, what if this really happens? Can someone seriously have a twisted mind like Patrick Bateman? Some parts of the book are so descriptive that it almost made me physically sick. I’ve never read anything that comes near the horror, the sickness but at the same time the fantastic way which the story’s told. Even so, Bateman, who expresses his true self by torture and murder, prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront. The wealthy elite grows infinitely wealthier, the poor and disturbed are turned out onto the streets by the tens of thousands, and anything, including the very worst, seems possible. I’ll quote a few lines: “American Psycho is set in a world (Manhattan), and an era (the Eighties) recognizably our own. After reading the back cover, I certainly got a clear vision of what the book will be like. Reading the title, American Psycho, I was hoping the book was about the perfect all American life, and that this was a cynical way of telling that it isn’t. I was therefore curious about the book and decided to read it. Few books have created as much controversy as American Psycho.
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