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American Psycho

By: Bret Easton Ellis
Narrated by: Nick Landrum
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Summary

 Patrick Bateman is 26 and works on Wall Street. He is handsome, sophisticated, charming, and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. And he is taking us to a head-on collision with America's greatest dream - and its worst nightmare...©1991 Bret Easton Ellis (P)2009 Recorded Books LLC Crime Thrillers Dark Humour Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Suspense Thriller & Suspense Urban Thriller Comedy Crime Scary
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Incredible writing style and phenomenal performance, feels like Patrick Bateman himself is reading to me

Great performance, odd book

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very slow and repetitive then you get a punch on the face. I really enjoyed it.

very good!

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Disgusting book, seriously feel like I need a shower after reading this. Interesting social commentary, however.

Pornographic snuff. I need a shower

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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes, but with a big caution attached and only to someone I knew well.

What about Nick Landrum’s performance did you like?

Very laid back and easy to listen to. It must have been a difficult read for him.

Any additional comments?

The book should not be compared to the film. Here the true vacuity of the NYC Yuppie life-style is exposed in all it's boring detail. The constant repetition of what every one is wearing, eating and drinking and the total lack of plot is designed to make sure that you know just how dull and unimportant these people are. The murder and sadistic sex that is laced through the story has to be contrasted with the thoughts and opinions that the other characters have of Patrick Bateman, showing him to be another thoroughly dull drone. The whole is a clever hall of mirrors where nothing is really what it seems to be.
There are some wonderfully funny passages, notably the three or four way telephone restaurant booking sequence, but like the est of the book the tone is of the blackest black.

EXTREMELY ADULT, BUT YOU KNEW THAT...

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Ellis writes a very witty tale that perfectly captures the ignorant, hedonistic life of upper middle class New Yorkers in the 1980s. The excesses are perfectly captured in the litany of designers and fine goods that runs throughout with glimpses into the horror of Patricks actions and the blindness of the other characters to his disturbance. A blend of mundane obsession with name brands and strange foods blended with horrific and disturbing gore coupled with Patricks black wit is what makes it such a gripping read. Landrum's performance is a perfect embodiment of Patrick Batemans twisted, self gratifying inner monologue.

Gripping satirical tale of 1980s New York hedonism

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