Book Review of Bret Easton Ellis American Psycho

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... More

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 Less