Book 1: American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

I'm starting with American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis.









I'm 90% done with it, but for the record: I'm beginning at 8:00 am, at about page 360 of 401.

Loving it. I'd seen the movie, but the book brings Bateman's psychosis that much more into your face.


American Psycho Stats
Pages: 401 (but beginning at 360)
Began: 8:00 am (at 90% completion)
Finished: 8:35 am
Total time: 35 minutes (1.2 pg/min avg)
Rating: 4 out of 5

I absolutely loved this book. I've always been a big fan of different authors' interpretations of crazy, and my god did this deliver. It's disjointed and disconnected (just like Bateman); the way he puts random thoughts together - banal mixed unthinkingly with viciously depraved - was something I didn't expect to impress me, but halfway through some paragraphs I found myself feeling just as bewildered as he seemed half the time.

Thomas Harris was my benchmark on "favorite psychopath inner monologues," but this is officially tied with it.

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