Refinished Sa 9/5/20
This is an old trade paperback that I bought at Barnes & Noble; Sa 11/5/94: $14.00. I finished it four days later, and I reread the novel and finished on Su 9/17/00.
Patrick Bateman is a psychopathic serial killer. He's quite open about his activities, but nobody listens.
Donald Trump is a hero of Bateman's. When people refer to 'The Plaza', he corrects them by saying, 'It's 'The Trump Plaza'. If Trump has eaten there, it's where Bateman's friends will definitely go there.
He claims that he works in 'Murders and Executions' instead of 'Mergers and Acquisitions'.
Many times he is not recognized, but people never question that he is part of the top 'One Percent'.
Many times he claims that he has to return video tapes to the store.
Positive Criticism:
"...a gruesome little critique of the most shallow and depraved aspects of 1980s American capitalism..."
Negative Criticism:
"...“he most loathsome offering of the season, and “a contemptible piece of pornography.”
"...stupefying details about expensive clothing, food and bath products, that were it not the most loathsome offering of the season, it certainly would be the funniest..." I remember that this is what I loved about the novel my first time through it. But now it just dates the novel. Bateman's fantastic TV is only a 27" model and some of the trendy products are no longer for sale.
"...a hilarious, repulsive, boring, seductive, deadpan satire of what we now call—as if it were something in the past—the Age of Reagan."
"... a canonical work of social satire, widely regarded by gender theorists and feminist critics alike as a scabrous assessment of modern masculinity run amok."
Bateman is an expert on clothes and how they are worn. All of his friends defer to his opinions on fashion.
Bateman is referred to by his friends as "Mr. Wallstreet".
I really loved the book all of the times that I've read it. Funny and horrifying.
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