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Review title: One of the most disturbing, nightmare-inducing books ever.
Product review: American Psycho, once I got past the seemingly endless namedropping narrative, held me in its thrall for three dark evenings. Unfortunately, headline-makers Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy (whom Ellis' protagonist Bateman seems to lionize) pale in comparison with Bateman's excesses (not only at yuppie-haven Manhattan in the 80's but his penchant for chopping up women). While Ellis' prose goes nonstop, I can't recall a more superficial yet morbidly fascinating book. I'm a big fan of the First Amendment, but when the story careened from disfiguring a street bum to killing a child on a zoo outing, I put the book down. Hoping that Bateman would meet his match, I returned to the novel the next night. I'm glad I only paid thirty nine cents for the paperback at Goodwill. I'll go see the movie, but the filmmakers surely have their work cut out for them.
