Book Review of Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho
By Marciano Guerrero, following Mary Duffy’s method
How to Improve Writing with Sentence Openers:
http://www.
sentenceopeners.
com/blog
What can one say about a fine writer —Bret Easton Ellis— who chooses a...
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Book Review of Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho
By Marciano Guerrero, following Mary Duffy’s method
How to Improve Writing with Sentence Openers:
http://www.
sentenceopeners.
com/blog
What can one say about a fine writer —Bret Easton Ellis— who chooses a degenerate and violent
theme? To me it seems like a waste of talent.
But to each his own! Why lament the fact that
Flaubert –another superb writer—chose to write about infidelity, adultery, the provinces, and a
dunce of a heroine? Yet the fact remains that while Madame Bovary is a masterpiece regardless of
its theme, American Psycho is a minor work.
American Psycho is a scary book for whoever reads it, be the reader male, female, gay, lesbian,
straight, or crooked.
But, besides the gratuitous violence, what makes this book scary? It isn’t a
novel in the vein of those horror adventures that Stephen King writes.
Not at all.
This book is
disturbing not because of the horror of the violence it contains, but because of what it repres
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