American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis
One of my all time favourite books. Its just pure brilliance.
Anyone else love it?
[CENTER]"My words'll expose George Bush and Bin Laden
As two separate parts of the same seven headed dragon
And you can't fathom the truth, so you don't hear me
You think illuminati's just a fuckin conspiracy theory?"
- [B]Immortal Technique - The Cause of Death[/B][/CENTER]
This was my first book of Ellis that I read and I loved it. I saw the movie first and read the book afterwards. I think it's the only book I've read so far that made me stop reading for a bit because of the graphic detail involved, which usually doesn't happen to me.
The detail was a little graphic sometimes (okay, maybe more than a little), but it didn't make me stop. Patrick's laborious attention to wardrobe and pop culture tangents make him who he is.
A very good book. A very chilling book as well.
Anyone else think there could be a real Patrick Bateman-esque person out there? I do.
It's satire and character study both rolled into each other very well.
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great book, much better than Glamorama.
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I read this recently and it took me about a month to get through it. I loved it, recommended it to those I thought could handle it. It took so long for me to finish because of the graphic detail in it. I would be reading and had to stop because it would make me physically ill. This usually doesn't happen to me but the details were so intense and precise that i couldn't help but imagine what a person would look like splattered over my living room.
Go to this (recently dead) thread: [URL=http://www.chuckpalahniuk.net/community/showthread.php?t=14465&page=2&pp=25&highlight=kabol+psycho]Ellis' work, including a breakdown and rebuild of [i]American Psycho[/i][/URL]
Kabol
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play hard, like it's work to be done.
honestly the attention to detail in the gore is what kept me reading
I have this habit of biting my nails when I'm nervous. You know, just a little bit. Just a nervous desire. When I run out of nails, I start chewing on my cuticles. These are all the things you do when you aren't thinking about it. Things that you just kind of find yourself doing but don't think about stopping. And—though this has never happened before—when I run out of cuticles, as in they are all sherraded, ragged, bleeding but none left hanging, all flush to the curves and tight white from chew marks, I would start to bite into the skin on the side of my fingers. Just gnawing at the skin, breaking the skin one layer at a time, one bit of flat flesh at a time and chewing the rubber feel between my teeth. You know, one of those things you don’t think about. Anything to get through to the next chapter.
When I got done with American Psycho the side of my fingers were red. All of them. I never even noticed that I had gotten a little blood on the book itself (which was fitting, actually). My fingers ached for days. Thankfully, cuticles heal quickly. The skin on my fingers healed slowly. That book was certainly not a simple read. But, God, how Bret Ellis paint can a picture, and without the use of corny, simple tricks. He'll just write it out, word for word, and then it hits you in the stomach. Like all at once. Like suddenly, "Oh my God, I can't believe he just fucking did that."
Like the time that Bateman picked that woman's arm up. Off the floor. She was on the bed or something. Anyway, he started hitting her in the head with the arm. But he wasn't holding the arm with two hands. He was holing it in one. By the end. His hand around the bone that connects to the shoulder.
If anybody wants a diagram on how to describe an action scene, read that book. It'll help.
Kabol
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play hard, like it's work to be done.
[QUOTE=JKabol] He'll just write it out, word for word, and then it hits you in the stomach. Like all at once. Like suddenly, "Oh my God, I can't believe he just fucking did that."
Like the time that Bateman picked that woman's arm up. Off the floor. She was on the bed or something. Anyway, he started hitting her in the head with the arm. But he wasn't holding the arm with two hands. He was holing it in one. By the end. His hand around the bone that connects to the shoulder.
If anybody wants a diagram on how to describe an action scene, read that book. It'll help.
Kabol[/QUOTE]
my favorite deaths had to be the one were he ended up walking around naked with the one girls head hanging from his dick and the car battery to the breast untill the breast exploded thing was awesome.
that book is so enjoyable.
i'd love to meet ellis.
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^^^Same here. Hopefully I'll get the oppertunity someday.
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play hard, like it's work to be done.
[QUOTE=Dublo7]One of my all time favourite books. Its just pure brilliance.
Anyone else love it?[/QUOTE]
I haven't read it yet. Bought it the other day, and it's on my long-list of "books I have bought but haven't read yet". *tuts*
Apparently it made my old english teacher nearly vom on a train. Has to be good.
i loved it in retrospect but as i was reading it i was slightly frustrated by the anal retentive attention to detail and the two chapters one on whitney huston and the other on genesis & phil collins
but looking back on it i realize the reasoning behind those chapters and the obsessive compulsive level of detail it makes the book that much more awesome