American Psycho
- Bret Easton Ellis
There is an idea of Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably not comparable; I simply am not there.
Haven’t read American Psycho yet? It’s a phenomenal book. The Hollywood movie really doesn’t do it justice. For my money it has some of the finest writing of modern literature.
Applaud for a few great words from Bret Easton Ellis.

In this one sentence the entire premise of the novel is handed to you along with the neuroses of the main character. It’s wonderful.
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