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Indlæser... American psycho (1991)af Bret Easton Ellis
  
» 32 mere BBC Big Read (136) 1990s (39) Books Read in 2020 (2,685) Unreliable Narrators (66) A Novel Cure (233) 20th Century Literature (955) 1,001 BYMRBYD Concensus (226) Read These Too (95) Cooper (19) My TBR (85) Set in the 1980s (1) Unread books (518) Must read (18) Fiction For Men (102) Great American Novels (116) Best Horror Books (211) Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog.  bnielsen | Sep 15, 2019 |  En klassiker i den forstand, at det er en bog man bør have læst. Jeg sad med kvalme gennem næsten hele bogen - på en mærkelig måde utrolig tvedelt, fordi hovedpersonen Patrick Bateman er tiltrækkende og frastødende på samme tid. Hovedpersonens omgivelser er let genkendelige for min generation, men hans handlinger er dybt frastødende. En bog, der er oplagt til eks. opgaver i gymnasiet, fordi den indeholder så meget intertekstualitet og oplagte emner at diskutere. 1  saraurban | Dec 14, 2007 | Jeg mener at American Psycho er et mesterværk, dog kan den danske oversættelse ikke anbefales, da den desværre er oversat meget ringe. Læs den engelske udgave. (  ) Sakena | Nov 27, 2007 |
 You get the feeling that Mr. Ellis began writing his novel with a single huge emotion of outrage, and that he never in his three years of working on it paused to modulate that emotion or to ask if it was helping to construct an imaginary world. How else could he have written scenes so flat and tedious that the reader wants to scream? Surely not with profit or exploitation in mind. If so, commercialism has never before produced anything so boring.  Where Bonfire owed some part of its success to the reassurance it offered the rich—“You may be silly,” Wolfe was saying in effect, “but, brother, the people down at the bottom are unspeakably worse”—Ellis’s novel inverts the equation. I cannot recall a piece of fiction by an American writer that depicts so odious a ruling class—worse, a young ruling class of Wall Street princelings ready, presumably, by the next century to manage the mighty if surrealistic levers of our economy... If the extracts of American Psycho are horrendous, therefore, when taken out of context, that is Ellis’s fault. They are, for the most part, simply not written well enough. If one is embarked on a novel that hopes to shake American society to the core, one has to have something new to say about the outer limits of the deranged—one cannot simply keep piling on more and more acts of machicolated butchery. Belongs to Publisher SeriesIndeholdt iHas the adaptationReference guide/companion to
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. No library descriptions found. |
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Indeholder afsnittene "April Fools", "Morning", "Harry's", "Pastels", "Tunnel", "Office", "Health Club", "Date", "Dry Cleaners", "Harry's", "Deck Chairs", "Business Meeting", "Video Store than D'Agostino's", "Facial", "Date with Evelyn", "Tuesday", "Genesis", "Lunch", "Concert", "A Glimpse of a Thursday Afternoon", "Yale Club", "Killing Dog", "Girls", "Shopping", "Christmas Party", "Nell's", "Paul Owen", "Paul Smith", "Birthday, Brothers", "Lunch with Bethany", "Thursday", "Whitney Houston", "Dinner with Secretary", "Detective", "Summer", "Girls", "Confronted by a Faggot", "Killing Child at Zoo", "Girls", "Rat", "Another Night", "Girl", "At Another New Restaurant", "Tries to Cook and Eat Girl", "Taking an Uzi to the Gym", "Chase Manhattan", "Huey Lewis and The News", "In Bed with Courtney", "Smith & Wollensky", "Something on Television", "Sandstone", "The Best City for Business", "Working Out", "End of the 1980s", "Aspen", "Valentine's Day", "Bum on Fifth", "New Club", "Taxi Driver", "At Harry's".
Børsmægleren Patrick Bateman har masser af penge og masser af dyre vaner. Han arbejder ved Pierce & Pierce på Wall Street. Han er også psykopat og slipper afsted med flere mord. Lange passager med analyser af rockgrupper, lange smører om dyrt tøj, dyre ure, dyre restauranter veksler med sex og mord og drab på både bekendte og nogle helt tilfældige, fx en lille dreng i zoologisk have eller en hjemløs.
Til sidst slutter historien med ikke at slutte, men blot fortsætte. Det hele er fortalt af Patrick Bateman, så om han virkeligt har begået alle uhyrlighederne eller det hele bare er en drøm?
Mærkelig bog. (