Who has read American Psycho ? I need you...<spoilers>

Read it, and found it very interesting. It is extremely graphic. Sometimes it seems pointless, but it's supposed to be reflective of the consumerist society it's critising - as well as the violence going on for pages and being brutal, so are the descriptions of what they're wearing/listening too etc...
What's alarming is that you quickly get desensitised to the violence. (I studied it against One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest as an assignment on insanity).
Probably wouldn't dare to pick it up now though. Seem to have got very sensitive these days.
Got a real vague sense that BEE is a misogynist...but then I really liked the bleakness of Less than Zero (when I was a 'meaningful' 20 something')...and in fact, less than Zero or Rules of Attraction examine similar themes without being so hideous - though there are horrid sexual/violent images int here too.

It was horrible. Not just gross, which it was, but just plain horrible.

DH read it first and he was nasty and bad tempered and mean all the while. Then he passed it to me, and I realised it was affecting me too.

I don't recommend it. I'm not easily shocked, and I wasn't shocked. It was just gratuitously unpleasant. I don't really know what the point of it was - to let everyone know what seriously unpleasant, shallow twats those Wall Street guys are/were? It went to extremes and there was no one, no one in that book that had a redeemable feature.

I have read something else by the author and can't remember anything about it. I wonder if he wrote this one simply to indulge in his own unpleasant fantasies, in which case I would say forget it. Don't indulge him.

I read it 15 yrs ago. I loved it. It is very violent though.

it is quite, quite grim.

mind you, I borrowed it from the library when I was about 13. perhaps it is easier to stomach as an adult.

I did really like the film though. The violence was less explicit allowing the story and character to be better shown off.

I loved the book, but then it takes a lot to gross me out. There is no doubt that the character of Patrick Bateman is a very sick puppy indeed, but the book is still very well written. If you're still not sure, maybe watch the film first, or try reading some of Brett Easton Ellis' other books to get into his style of writing.

As I said I would recommend the book, but it does cut quite close to bone if you are easily shocked

Wasn't just me then!

I hated it. It is the only book I refused to keep in the house after I had read it. The consists of nothing more than descriptions of designer possessions and shockingly graphic violence. I found the descriptions of sadistic torture sickening. I truly wish I had never read it as one scene in particular has bothered my for years.

I read it and hated it. It is grim. After finishing it, I felt soiled.

Its awful. I threw it out once I was finished it and deleted it from my mind.

Worth reading though, to know what the fuss was about.