This is the first of Ellis' work that I've read, and I enjoyed it immensely. This is probably one of my favorite books of all time, and it gave so much more depth than the movie. I had been meaning to read it for a while, but I've been on a fantasy bent the past two years or so, so it escaped the top of my reading list. What reiginited my interest in it was discovering that Ellis and Donna Tartt had gone to the same school, were close friends, and made reference to each others work within their own. I found this out while looking into Bennington College, intending to apply, having only known that Tartt had gone there. I'm a huge fan of her book The Secret History, which was so good it brought me back into reading after a years long slump. That, and my recent interest in horror, convinced me to finally read it.
The book follows Patrick Bateman, a Wall Street douchebag and Harvard graduate who lives off the opportunities granted by his wealthy family and only works to "fit in." Bateman is psychopathic, with no compassion for others and a penchant for raping, mutilating, and murdering women. He has a string of female lovers, whom he ignores, demeans, lies to, and abuses without a second thought. He and his friends are clearly misogynists, and throughout the book Bateman