Ellis said, "American Psycho was a book I didn't think needed to be turned into a movie", as "the medium of film demands answers", which would make the book "infinitely less interesting". Ellis doesn’t delineate between what is real and what is fantasy, and blurs the line further by having people repeatedly profess to have recently dined with people Bateman has described murdering in extensive detail. I think it's a kind of black cynicism about today's world that Ellis and certain others depend on for their readership. There are telling, novelistic details that succinctly and indelibly capture the world and people they’re describing.

Brett Easton Ellis's American Psycho as a Palimpsest of the Theories of Girard, Gans and de Andrade". It is perfectly acceptable to bitch and moan about how the mean people didn’t like your good tweets, but there is a time and a place for such behavior, and it is not the offices of Alfred A.

Fittingly, while Bateman’s peers may love Les Miserables , they treat the contemporary descendants of the musical’s subjects with abuse and disdain, and Bateman, of course, treats them much worse, with murderous barbarity.

In Australia, the book is sold shrink-wrapped and is classified "R18" under national censorship legislation (i. However, as Patrick Bateman, the narrator of American Psycho, leads us down his peculiar path of excess, there will come a point at which we think that he is making things up. to be totally honest, i have a hard time seeing how one views (as so many do) american psycho as 'woman hating' or 'anti-woman' or 'anti-feminist' -- i suspect that easton ellis is so good at what he does, his depiction of violence so visceral, excessive, and demented that it literally pushes people to a point in which they must either reduce the book to a 'commentary on society and consumerism and capitalism' (ugh) or to the point at which the excess drowns out any point easton ellis imagines he's making.And yet, even after almost 36 hours have ticked by, the only word that keeps bubbling up to the surface of my consciousness is.