American Psycho

In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.

As an added bonus, when you purchase our Audible Modern Vanguard production of Bret Easton Ellis' book, you'll also get an exclusive Jim Atlas interview that begins when the audiobook ends.

This production is part of our Audible Modern Vanguard line, a collection of important works from groundbreaking authors.©1991 Bret Easton Ellis (P)2009 Audible, Inc.

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"Bret Easton Ellis is a very, very good writer [and] American Psycho is a beautifully controlled, careful, important novel....The novelist's function is to keep a running tag on the progress of the culture; and he's done it brilliantly....A seminal book." ( The Washington Post)

"The first novel to come along in years that takes on deep and Dostoyevskian themes....[Ellis] is showing older authors where the hands have come to on the clock....He has forced us to look at intolerable material, and so few novelists try for that anymore." ( Vanity Fair)

"A masterful satire and a ferocious, hilarious, ambitious, inspiring piece of writing, which has large elements of Jane Austen at her vitriolic best. An important book." (Katherine Dunn)

Appalling!

The fuckedupness is mind blowing, were the movie did this book justice, the book debles into the mind of the psychotic.

There were times I literally wanted to vomit at the details and then wondered why I kept listening to it. But it was kind of like a train wreck where I couldn't.stop.listening evwn if I wanted.

It is a great book, but be prepared for one fucked up ride!

Amazing

I've been a big fan of Bret Easton Ellis since the 80's and for me, over the years this has risen to the level of his first two books, Less Than Zero, and The Rules of Attraction.

Don't be thrown by the violent chapters. I am of the opinion you don't even need them. The real story is in the remainder of the chapters, following Patrick Bateman around 80's NYC as he attempts to fit in, and hold it together.

It sounds crazy, but if you're familiar with that time and place (or just the 80's at all), the book is absolutely hysterical.

The reader does a great job with this, IMO. Small mistakes here and there, but absolutely nails the tone the entire way through.

Highest possible recommendation.

Schreiber captures the essence of what Ellis wants

Though I think the feeling that the story tries to give you starts to fall apart at the last quarter of the book, I think Pablo Schreiber's performance is phenomenal. I absolutely believe that Pablo captures the essence of...well, whatever it is Ellis is trying to express with American Psycho. Chalk another one up to a standard setting performance.

disappointing reader

Fascinating and disturbing . Sadly, someone should have thought the reader proper pronunciation of Hermès. the audible equivalent of a typo.

Incredibly gruesome

The narrator did an excellent job. I’ve always wanted to read this book and I have seen the movie version which is like a disney version compared to this book. Witty and oddly comical.