INTERNATIONAL 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 … 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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Really frightening.
This book is shocking, it is horrible, and yet at the same time the overall description of what so much of our society seems like now is compelling. Valuing material things, appearance, one-up-man-ship, but at the same time people and even animals are “meat”, disposable and easily replaceable. The continual reference to brand names adds a layer of the banality of this modern world–
Psychological horror story. Very realistic, very psycopathic
So, I’m not sure how I feel about this book.
On the one hand, the author did a wonderful job of creating the character Pat Bateman and portraying real mental illness in the form of psychosis and violent tendencies. Pat was such a believable character/villian that it was hard to distinguish between his fantasies and the real crimes that he committed. While the unreliable narration made it confusing, this is also what made it such a compelling read.
However, I am at a loss for the ending. For everything that Pat had done, or believed he had done, I thought there would be some kind of ending with a bang, but instead it was very vague and I’m still confused as to exactly how much had just been in Pat’s head.
If you’re a fan of horror and psychological books, this one is a classic for a reason though I don’t recommend it to readers who prefer a clear cut ending because this one is up to reader interpretation and will leave you scratching your head.