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| Uinuva: Lad-lit : American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis | | 6 | Kell_Smurthwaite, lokakuu 2007 | |
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| | ... Flies and All Quiet on the Western Front when I finish them. And I am now on the lookout for both Must Love Dogs and American Psycho. Not having read the book, I don't know if you'll like Dogs. But, I did. I am a John Cusack fan and the movie had a quirky feel to it. Perhaps the book ... ...
Must Love Dogs was pretty funny. I thought the part about the navel piercing was hilarious. I haven't seen the film yet. American Psycho was one of those books you don't forget easily. It was much nastier than the film, but still kept you guessing as to whether or not he was fantasizing.
... ... I didn't expect to enjoy it quite so much.
Was Must Love Dogs any good? I enjoyed the movie. Same question for American Psycho. I really liked the movie because it set you up to question whether he was fantasizing or really comitting all of the crimes.
I loved Deliverance. Aft ... >283, Angel, I agree completely. For example, I thought American Psycho was a great book, but it was incredibly disturbing. But if it was a warm fuzzy story or if the violence and gore was toned down, I don't think it would have had such an impact on me or other readers. The movie scaled down ... #26: Scratch, have you read American Psycho? If you have and you know of a more violent novel, I would like to know what it is.
I have read a number of books featuring serial killers: The Collector, The Killer Inside Me, Felicia's Journey and Silence of the Lambs to name a few. Compar ... I got very grumbly about Patrick Bateman in American Psycho wearing two ties at the same time but then found out the author meant to do that, so I take the grumble back.
I didn't like the end of Messiah the book. It surprised me as I had already seen Messiah the TV programme (with the very ... Bibliobeck - you've agreed with me on one of my choices and I have to say that I agree with one of yours. American Psycho contains some vile images, it really does. I found it more disturbing for being very funny too. American Psycho because, behind the blood and gore, it is brilliantly satirical and deeply moral. And very funny. So many people misinterpret this book. Animal Farm, American Psycho and Amerika. Sorry, can't decide which I like best of those three... I have to agree with the American Psycho post. It was an okay novel overall, but horribly violent, cruel and disgusting in parts. Quite possibly the most violent novel I have ever read.
-- M1001 ... since I sneaked my sister's copy during my teenage years and don't think I would again as I found it just horrific.
Also American Psycho - especially his completely sociopathic thoughts that we are privy to during everyday social situations - just horrible! (Something awful about heads on ... ... are a few that I'm sure I can guess why they're on the list, but since i haven't read them, I won't suggest tags for.
American Psycho: gore, graphic violence, rape, murder, dismemberment, rodents, violence against women
Cobra Event: viruses, murder, violence against women, gore
The ... ... "disturbing" for each person. It wouldn't have occurred to me to think of anything besides gory horror titles like American Psycho to nominate, but then I would be overlooking disturbing social situations or disturbing historical events. Individual tastes can sometimes be entertaining, ... ... by Poppy Brite, which is already noted. Wow. Finding out that I'm really quite a prude! Much more disturbing to me than American Psycho or Zombie...the necrophilia aspects are troubling to me, however, I'm managing to get through it. If nothing else, it's a fast read. ... of the depths a human being would stoop to that I couldn't read about him. I say that as someone who finished, and loved, American Psycho. I love the dark aspects of some stories. The Sparrow as previously mentioned, of course, is hauntingly beautiful-sad.
American Psycho is just dark in that dirty, grimy, serial killer kind of way. I really enjoyed it, but maybe that's my fascination with finding books that manage to express ... ... Disgrace -- J. M. Coetzee
14) American Pastoral -- Philip Roth
15) The Virgin Suicides -- Jeffrey Eugenides
16) American Psycho -- Bret Easton Ellis
17) Possession: A Romance -- A. S. Byatt
18) The Remains of the Day -- Kazuo Ishiguro
19) The New York Trilogy -- ... ... dragon, rather than a deep delve into a serial killer's psyche. Several other serial killer novels I've read, however, like American Psycho, make the SK seem more autistic than like a psychopath.
The Dexter novels are fun, however, and I like them. The TV series, while good, could not ... ... (theater of the abomination anyone?), but afterwards I sort of wished I had. There were scenes from Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho that were ALMOST as disturbing... to give you an idea. (I liked American Psycho BTW).
I could go on for hours about how weak Koontz is... but he seems ... ... That's also why I tend not to read horror novels.
As I've mentioned before, it was very hard for me to get through American Psycho because of the extreemly graphic violence against women, and I had to skip a couple of chapters. I've booktalked it to a couple of patrons, giving them a ... I'd have to say American Psycho. I think B. E. Ellis is very good, and I liked Lunar Park quite a lot, but AP was too much for me... Hands down, American Psycho was the most disturbing book I've ever read. When I read it, I was working on a degree in forensic science, so I could perfectly picture everything happening and imagine working up the crime scene later, plus I'm a woman so some of the scenes were just WAY WAY too ... ... Robert Cormier
The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Witch's Boy by Michael Gruber
American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
... Russia With Love
Small Gods
Murder in Mesopotamia
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
A Clockwork Orange
American Psycho
Mort
Eric
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
A Caribbean Mystery
The Hobbit
Noughts and Crosses
Angels and Demons
Cirque du Freak
Travels ... ... Petal and the White by Michel Faber
The Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
On The Road by Jack Kerouac
Trout Fishing in Am ... ... are (roughly in order of number of times mentioned, with many 'ties'):
We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
American Psycho, by Bret Ellis
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Giver by Lois Lowry ... ... FINISHED
3. The black dahlia FINISHED
4. The virgin suicides
5. Kafka on the shore
6. Cloud Atlas
7. American psycho
8. Never let me go
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis 29. Siddhartha
Definitely lived up to its hype for me. Beautiful story.
30. American Psycho
Falls right behind Girl Next Door as far as disturbing books for me. Loved it, and the commentary he was making on society, but wow, that guy's got a sick mind! Another one to add for me:
American Psycho
I still have about 70 pages to go, but jeezalou!!! This might top Girl Next Door as the most disturbing book for me (isn't AP based on real events as well?)
uuuuhh...I seriously have the heebie jeebies.
The movie was so tame compared to ... #334: Yeah, American Psycho isn't my fave either. And you're right--you're either bored to tears half the time or nauseated. Probably one of the few examples of where the movie's better than the book (1- it takes up less of your time, and 2- Christian Bale's in it ;). ... to make myself read a page at a time, just to get through it.
Oh, that's right, I forgot: The Celestine Prophecy and American Psycho: baaaaaaaad! The first just made me bored out of my mind, the second one actually made me sick to my stomach. ... to a series I loved as a teen now tht the omnibus is out..The Vampire Diaries.
After that, trying to decide between American Psycho or Siddhartha--hehe, what a difference! :Þ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - McCullers
American Psycho - Ellis
Empire Falls - Russo
The Last Picture Show - McMurtry
The Commitments - Doyle
About a Boy - Hornby ... books in their lives. For me, its anything J.D. Salinger ever wrote, the Harry Potter books, The Satanic Verses, American Psycho...I always wonder if these books are going to hold up over time and I liked them all (except HP Book 7) so much the first time I read them. So I fear ... ... certainly provocative. You might want to give it a few months to see what the group are like before you throw that in.
American Psycho might be an idea. Didn't like it personally, but should provoke discussion.
Judy Blume's Forever might be worth chucking in there if the group ... 16. American Psycho--Bret Easton Ellis
One of the few times I enjoyed a film more than the book. It had amusing moments--such as the interactions between the main character and his girlfriend, but it almost wasn't worth reading through the boring music reviews to be amused.
As for the ... ...
It was as if Shirley Jackson's The Lottery had been made into a novella...
Now, I'm trying to decide what to read next:
American Psycho
The Secret History
Choke I agree about American Psycho the odd thing is that eventhough it honestly made me wince I read thebook in 2 nights. Go figure!!! American Psycho, I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels like this about this book. The other most disturbing book of my life was a collection of russian fairy tales which I read as a child of 8. I was afraid of Baba Jaga for months afterwards. Am up to page 267 of Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
Will be reading American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis next, which means I will have read all of Bret's work on the list. ... sort of posting on this group before.
I'm currently reading Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis. Shall be reading American Psycho, also by Bret Easton Ellis.
Also bought Looking For Alaska by the wonderful John Green which was quite awesome to find somewhere in Australia ... #10 - American Psycho was great! Better than Alcohol!
Happy Birthday! 2007, I picked 150 books to read. However, the last Harry Potter book completely ruined things for me and I had to desire to pick up another book until recently. I got around 50, if I was lucky (see http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=6899).
So, I'm not going to bite off more than I ... Diary by Chuck Palahniuk
And hopefully soon American Psycho as I can borrow it from the library when I turned 18 (on the 22nd of Jan) YAY!
No really, that's what I'm waiting for. Alcohol! nah! I want American Psycho. ... Henk van Woerden, De overtreder van Marente de Moor, Heb lief en zie niet om van Willem G. van Maanen en American Psycho van Bret Easton Ellis. Op de terugreis begonnen aan De utopisten van Louise O. Fresco.
Joris en Gissie: Als aanvulling op Mak's "In Europa" is ... I haven't made the trip to the library yet but I plan on reading American Psycho at the very least. My top tier of 2007 (in no particular order):
American Psycho
The Lovely Bones
Remains of the Day
Einstein's Dreams
Runners-up:
Concrete Island
Unbearable Lightness of Being
Into the Wild
Pleasure of my Company
High Fidelity
God Bless you, Mr. Rosewater
All ... Most: Anything by Ian McEwan, mainly Atonement.
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides and most of all American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis.
Least: Tristram Shandy, although I am quite intrigued to give it a go. And most books that are above and beyond 700 pages long. I'm not a ... ... books that didn't make the top five are:
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Novecento by Alessandro Baricco
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
..... I read a lot ... ... to suggest lesser known books that are a bit "different"! I also like to hear what others suggest.
How are you liking American Psycho? I have it in my collection but have not yet read it.
Sadly, teelgee didn't like The Muse Asylum all that much, but mrstreme loved it!
For non-fict ... I'm currently working on American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, and I must say it is a very peculiar book. I have not read anything like this, yet the style reminds me a bit of Joyce James with its choppy nature. I am also reading Good Karma right now, an easy read with an interesting topic.
... ... Dickens
24. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
25. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
26. American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis
27. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
28. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
29. Casino Royale by ... Most disturbing book?
A toss up between American Psycho and Money. I found so unpleasant I couldn't finish the latter. In no particular order:
American Psycho
Emma
Lolita
Rebecca
The Turn of the Screw ... by David Baddiel
Both written by well-known comedians who have chosen the serious subject of war on a grand scale.
Psycho by Robert Bloch and American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Both about psychopathic killers, but with different approaches.
Carter Beats the Devil by G ... ... the Worlds
The Turn of the Screw
The Killer Inside Me
The Collector
Interview With The Vampire
The Shining
American Psycho
-- M1001 I was most disturbed reading American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis so much so that I didn't finish it. It was lent to me and I couldn't get past the vivid description of violence to understand any point he was trying to make. When I was discussing this with the person who lent me the book, she ... ... novel with a great premise and turned it into an amazing show!
Also concurring with the poster who liked both the American Psycho movie and novel. The thing I loved about the movie was that it took the book, which seemed hyper-real, and made it seem unreal. The movie made it seem ... ... I've read all of his books, and enjoyed each one ... even Glamorama ... in fact, if you like the more extreme aspects of American Psycho, I definitely recommend Glamorama ... ... by B.E.E. (I stopped with Glamorama because I heard it was terrible, and although they deal with different subjects than American Psycho, they all have a similar flavor to them. Moral dissolution...nihilism...etc. ... men and their stories.
Side note: I love Bret Easton Ellis, but because I tend to be squeamish I won't go anywhere near American Psycho. I enthusiastically recommend the other titles. ... one he was born with. His nights he spends in ways we cannot begin to fathom - doing impermissible things to women. This American Psycho is living his own American Dream.
Review:
I'd seen the film already and had been intrigued as everyone said the film was incredibly graphic, but I didn't ... American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis ... du Maurier
Emma by Jane Austen
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Signal to Noise by Neil Gaiman
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis ... films. As many of you said before, humans can take care of themselves (mostly), but animals can't. I just finished reading American Psycho and while the parts where he tortures and kills humans are disturbing and disgusting, I had to skip over the parts where he does the same things to dogs and ... ... I already read and sorted the rest alphabetically. This after I totally lost track. I did this last week so I'm reading American Psycho now which I'm almost done with and then I'll move on to Amerika. I think it also gives you a nice mix of genres and since I have several unread books by ... "What?" Van Patten says.
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis I'm in New York with the American Psycho. I'm half way through American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis which I like a lot and then I'll move on to Amerika by Franz Kafka. I finished Emma this week and just started American Psycho. I'm curious about this one as I saw the movie ages ago and remember that I liked it in a sick way. So I wonder how the book is. ... meticulous, don't you agree? The excessive grooming of the self, or pruning of a rose bush.
Patrick Bateman in American Psycho is such a modern psychopath; we can't expect him to perfectly fit the traditional bill. The meticulousness is there, though.
Grenouille in Das Parfum ... ...
It's harder than you think. So far they've had proposals for these.
Bill Sykes from Oliver Twist
Patrick Bateman in American Psycho
Dracula in Dracula
The Child Catcher in Ian Fleming’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Mr Hyde - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The ... I happen to think American Psycho, A Clockwork Orange and Fight Club are all very well written and very provocative books. Yet I certainly wouldn't want anyone under 16 or perhaps even 17 to get their hands on them; each is quite disturbing in its own way. Yet, the naivete here may be all my ... ... pendulum (read it completely) which I thought might be good since I liked the movie Name of the Rose. The violence of American psycho just from flipping though it in the bookstore made me literally sick to my stomach. Correction, the lead character's attitude towards the violence made me ... 22. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (416p); one I'd wanted to read for a long time, and I finally got around to it. I started in Dublin a month ago, and got distracted by one or two other books. It's hard work but rewarding, and some of the scenes are seriously blood-curdling.
8008 ... American Psycho - Ellis
Hit Man - Block
Man on Fire - Quinnell
First Blood - Morrell
The Forever War - Haldeman ... Of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellistoday, which was overall pretty solid, but it suffered from the same problems that American Psycho did which was overdoing it around the last parts of the book.
I just started The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin which is only about 100 pages and i ... ... by Naguib Mahfouz (I apologize - I finished it recently & I've been plugging it everywhere!)
North America: American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (People either love it or hate it - I'm one of the former)
(oops, that's five) ... this January 1, 2007, and thus far, this is my list of completed books:
1. Surrender The Pink by Carrie Fisher
2. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
3. The Normals by David Gilbert
4. Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher
5. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey ... ... think of quite a few, fictional and otherwise) that explicitly glamorise/ encourage equally odious behaviour.
I read American Psycho and didn't go nuts, Dangerous Liaisons and kept my trousers on, Communist Manifesto and didn't appropriate any property, The Qu'ran and didn't pursue ... ... to get through the ending of It...did you like the rest of the book though?
And make sure to let me know how you liked American Psycho. I wasn't able to finish it. ... It by Stephen King. I could barely get through the ending. It completely lost my interest. I've now started American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. Hopefully, I'll be able to get through it rather quickly and get to the rest of my TBR pile. # 93 virose_pt - I've read both American Psycho and Vernon God Little. I preferred AP, but both were pretty decent. Strangely, in direct opposition to many other readers, I didn't find AP to be all that graphic or disturbing in comparison to some of the other books I've read over the years. Mayb ... ... but I want to give them a second chance:
Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis ... father by Donald Barthelme ... a classic.
Grendel by John Gardner ... told from Grendel's point of view.
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis ... seriously.
Wittgenstein's mistress by David Markson ... another neglected classic.
Also, among the authors already ... I'm one of the weirdos in this world who really enjoyed American Psycho but tend not to tell others to read it as I know it's not a lot of people's cups of tea.
What I really really didn't enjoy (and I managed to read the whole thing) was Time Traveler's Wife. The story line was okay, but I ... 365 Exactly my friend is very much into horror and true crime but American Psycho was just too much apparently. She didn't even want the thing in her house overnight so I suggested the barbecue. #363/364: count me in. Can't stand Catch 22 and tried hard to. Not funny, IMO. I know I'll loathe American Psycho so haven't even attempted it.
I have a pile of Not TBR books I know I'll struggle to enjoy due to either subject matter or prose style (many of them are on this thread) and ... A nomination for a friend. American Psycho she ended up burning her copy. Which is a pretty strong statement.
jmnlman
Strategist's Personal Library
http://jmnlman.blogspot.com/ ... Graham
A Short History of Tractors in Ukraine - finally found it cheap at Goodwill
Glamorama - what a comparison to American Psycho!
Flood - the first book in the Burke series
My Father's Keeper - a true account of the children of Nazi leaders
Immoral - a great thriller of a ... ... to a particular tradition. Art has always aspired to beauty, hence the connection. Even in apparent ugliness, for example, American Psycho, one might find an overall achievement which is admirable, even beautiful. (I'm not giving an opinion on the book, but it's the first repulsive example that ... ... favorite movie adaptations of horror fiction, I'd have to go with Misery, Hellraiser (Barker's The Hellbound Heart), Psycho (the incomparable Robert Bloch), Interview with the Vampire and The Silence of the Lambs. Each and every one of those movies captured the books and stories ... The three funniest books I've ever read:
Mating, by Norman Rush
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis ... at something approaching full price, which somehow makes the whole situation even worse ... and I'm also with the fan of American Psycho ... if all you get out of this book is that it's about a misogynistic serial killer, you're missing out. ... take it back - even though I had the reciept :(
And this is going to go back to a few months of comments but I loved American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis. The whole point of the book is to point out how materialistic and insincere and crazy the 80s were. When I finished the book, I ... ... ... and more thumbs down for: Secret History, J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling ... yet I have to admit really liking American Psycho and The Twenty-seventh City. ...
The more recently a book was written the less patience I have with it if it pushes certain buttons.
I really didn't like American Psycho which is supposed to be a modern classic.
I admit I haven't read everything by Hemingway or Steinbeck so I suppose I might change my opinion on ... ... but I wouldn't be opposed to it.
Put me down as also disliking anything by Bret Easton Ellis. Read Less Than Zero and American Psycho and just hated them! Less Than Zero just seemed too over the top and screamed of trying WAY too hard.
Anything by Jodi Picoult also sends me over the ... Ditto on American Psycho. When I wasn't bored to tears with the endless descriptions of the most minute details, or irritated with the incorrect song/album references, I was just horrified at the killing (and I have a pretty strong stomach for that kind of thing). Reading it actually altered my ... I used to have a compulsion to finish a book, no matter how awful; fortunately that need was completely eliminated by American Psycho. I had seen the movie first and enjoyed it, so I thought I was prepared. Nope. Not even close. Each successive description of killing got more and more vile. I ...
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