American Psycho

De: Bret Easton Ellis

Narrado por: Pablo Schreiber

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.

Reseñas de la Crítica

"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)

Evil?

This is a story I've been trying to get into for a while, and I'm glad it did. It's a disturbing journey through the mind of a successful psychopath as he describes his bloody murders in the same tone and attention to detail as he does describing what other characters are wearing. It can be slow at times (after all, he describes what everybody around him is wearing in detail), but it is a story that will haunt you. Not for queasy people.

Not for everyone

This book does have very graphic sex and violent scenes and some readers will not be able to get past this. If you persist to the end you will get a fuller picture of Patrick Bateman, although many questions still remain after the end of the book.

Excellent.

Any additional comments?

Better than I remember from when I read it a decade ago. Graphic scenes more disturbing in audiobook form. Yes.

not a movie does a book make

I am a huge Stephen King fan, and this book, quite possibly is the most vulgar I have ever read. Being a writer myself, I absolutely get where Ellis is coming from, and what he is trying to project for the reader, however it just might not be my cup of tea. I have never been shocked by a work of fiction, untill this one.

I'm scarred for life

Any additional comments?

I read this book for Banned Books Week. I can absolutely understand why it was challenged. I can't even think of how to write a proper review about it. I just want to throw out expletives and wild hand gestures. Bateman scared the *** out of me! He's the guy everyone wants to date and wants around, and he's completely freaking psycho. He's a serial killer that has total breaks from reality. He commits atrocious violent murders. He even comes right out and tells people, but everyone is so caught up in what's the latest most expensive trend in the city that they just blow it off as jokes. The sexual torture scenes are so horrifying that I had to take breaks. Everything is so detailed that I almost threw up once. The way the author divides the insanity with completely mundane who's wearing what and going where and eating which item and drinking which drink and so is genius. It winds the reader down and then he hits us again. This is so scary because society is really like this. We have to actually be hit upside the head with something before we recognize the evil from the normal. Inside Bateman's head is a terrible place to be, but sadly it's interesting too. He has some kind of crazy appeal. This story completely disturbed me. I don't think I could reread it or recommend it, but I still think it deserves a high rating.

Poor narration

It was annoying that the narrator mispronounced so many designer's names. Hermes, Ralph Lauren, etc.

It's A Killer Novel

The story is graphic and brutal, but at the same time fascinating and unavoidable like a train wreck...

amazing story and detailed to the fullest

authors is amazing at this book, so much detail it paints a vivid gruesome world of Patrick Bateman. if you thought the movie was good read this book

Disturbing & gross

The reader mispronounced a lot of words. I knew the book would be disturbing, but... wow. This was hard to listen to. Beware.

American Psycho

The narration was exceptional. The story is good, nothing that will take you aback. There are some graphic parts that may bother folks that are sensitive. Enjoyed as the main character continued into the downward spiral as the book progressed.