American Psycho

By: Bret Easton Ellis

Narrated by: Pablo Schreiber

Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins

Publisher's summary

In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.

As an added bonus, when you purchase our Audible Modern Vanguard production of Bret Easton Ellis' book, you'll also get an exclusive Jim Atlas interview that begins when the audiobook ends.

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Critic reviews

"Bret Easton Ellis is a very, very good writer [and] American Psycho is a beautifully controlled, careful, important novel....The novelist's function is to keep a running tag on the progress of the culture; and he's done it brilliantly....A seminal book." ( The Washington Post)

"The first novel to come along in years that takes on deep and Dostoyevskian themes....[Ellis] is showing older authors where the hands have come to on the clock....He has forced us to look at intolerable material, and so few novelists try for that anymore." ( Vanity Fair)

"A masterful satire and a ferocious, hilarious, ambitious, inspiring piece of writing, which has large elements of Jane Austen at her vitriolic best. An important book." (Katherine Dunn)

Appalling!

The fuckedupness is mind blowing, were the movie did this book justice, the book debles into the mind of the psychotic.

There were times I literally wanted to vomit at the details and then wondered why I kept listening to it. But it was kind of like a train wreck where I couldn't.stop.listening evwn if I wanted.

It is a great book, but be prepared for one fucked up ride!

Schreiber captures the essence of what Ellis wants

Though I think the feeling that the story tries to give you starts to fall apart at the last quarter of the book, I think Pablo Schreiber's performance is phenomenal. I absolutely believe that Pablo captures the essence of...well, whatever it is Ellis is trying to express with American Psycho. Chalk another one up to a standard setting performance.

Surprisingly funny

Very entertaining and uncomfortablu on brand for the negative mental effects of corporatism. That being said would have probably liked it more if it were about 10 chapters shorter.

Amazing

I've been a big fan of Bret Easton Ellis since the 80's and for me, over the years this has risen to the level of his first two books, Less Than Zero, and The Rules of Attraction.

Don't be thrown by the violent chapters. I am of the opinion you don't even need them. The real story is in the remainder of the chapters, following Patrick Bateman around 80's NYC as he attempts to fit in, and hold it together.

It sounds crazy, but if you're familiar with that time and place (or just the 80's at all), the book is absolutely hysterical.

The reader does a great job with this, IMO. Small mistakes here and there, but absolutely nails the tone the entire way through.

Highest possible recommendation.

Very clever

What made the experience of listening to American Psycho the most enjoyable?

I had seen the movie, which really stayed very true to the book, so I could picture the scenes easily.

Any additional comments?

The narrator wouldn't have been my first choice--his new york accent seemed a little strong and didn't convey "yuppie" to me, but perhaps I was biased by Christian Bale's performance in the film.

great

loved it. very graphic i love it. but ends sucks. i want to know what

it was well narrated .

Well narrated and as shocking as you might be thinking it might be. very akward listen at work 😅

Ch 16

After reading the reviews, I thought I was in for intense, but found myself bored until I hit the end of Ch 16 - this book (recording) is everything & more than I anticipated.

It's both great & terribly graphic - make sure you have headphones when you listen to this.

Morbid

If you’re into the dark, disturbing and morbid. Only downside was all the talk about suits, fashion, and rich things far above what I can comprehend.

A look into the mind of The Rich and Serial

As mind-bogglingly Yuppie and almost fetishisticly attentive about clothing as the main character is, I can still mentally see this lizardman walking around New York or Washington D.C. of today. Book beats the movie by a mile, and the narrator nails the character voice.