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Review title: If you want poorly written, senseless torture and misogyny..
Product review: The only reason Ellis has received so much press for this waste of a tree is that he was willing to go further than anyone else, quite poorly I might add.It's one thing to use graphic violence to illuminate a point. It's another novel entirely when there doesn't seem to be any particular point. Perhaps what he was trying to communicate was how superficial and senseless yuppies and America of the '80s in general was, but really, wasn't this subject tired enough already?No, Ellis doesn't seem to be that bright. (And if he is, his writing certainly doesn't reflect that.) I think he is simply a shrewd capitalist who realized that if he wrote a "novel" that was more violent and cruel than anything else available, the hype alone would send him laughing to the bank. We've easily added our own 'deeper meaning' to his poorly written text, and made him a best-seller in the process.
