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  <default_description>Patrick Bateman is handsome, well-educated, intelligent. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the one he was born with. His nights he spends in ways we cannot begin to fathom. He is twenty-six years old and living his own American Dream.</default_description>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jan 27 13:17:40 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jan 27 18:08:05 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I actually read this book a few years ago, but I stumbled across the Goodreads reviews of it, and felt I needed to add my voice, because it is such a difficult piece of lit in a lot of ways,and honestly, it probably is more deserving of a thesis paper than of a measly little review on Goodreads.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13734556">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Feb 06 22:38:24 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[okay, this is a good book. but it is also a gnarly book. ellis got a lot of flak from feminists after this came out because a lot of people believed it was a really sexist work. i don't necessarily agree. i think ellis was making more of a commentary on the behaviors of a certain class/race group of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14793804">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7681866">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[men who really hate women]]></recommended_for>
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  <date_added>Sat Oct 13 16:38:22 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Sep 20 15:16:10 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[(review updated and improved with corrected spelling and new interesting anecdote!)<br/><br/>People think the pages and pages of descriptions of hacking and chopping up women are ironic.<br/>  Well, in one sense they are, but in another sense they aren't.<br/>   People who like this book should ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7681866">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7070097">
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book blew me away.  First of all, you have to be prepared to be let into the mind of a psychopath. That entails more than murder, which a lot of people reviewing this book completely miss. Watch out for these two types of brainless reviews.  &quot;Its worth the boring stuff for the violence&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7070097">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="18649064">
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  <date_added>Tue Mar 25 21:15:25 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[When a book sticks with you, you know it is powerful. It may not be entertaining, and it may be downright disturbing, but if you can't get it out of your head it is most certainly great, and that is my experience with <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28676.American_Psycho" title="American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis">American Psycho</a>.<br/><br/>For me, it's about the music.<br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2751.Bret_Easton_Ellis" title="Bret Easton Ellis">Bret Easton Ellis</a>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18649064">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1189296">
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  <votes>8</votes>
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  <date_added>Sun May 13 12:31:45 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun May 13 16:10:00 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I could not finish this book. In fact, when I finally (and gratefully) decided to stop reading it, I could not even bring myself to return it to my bookshelf. I actually threw it in the garbage, which I have never done to another book. <br/><br/>It's a shame, too, because up until about 3/4 of the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1189296">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="686844">
    <user id="56822">
    <name><![CDATA[Gavin]]></name>
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  <date_added>Thu Apr 12 07:24:15 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Apr 19 17:40:39 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although often described as a meditation on the vacuity of the 1980s, it's probably important to realise that an era cannot by itself <em>create</em> a state of vacuity, but only acts as a trapping. In this case, the 80s represents a sticky glut of technology, fashion, and media (does it sound very different...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/686844">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6720566">
    <user id="36030">
    <name><![CDATA[Ivy]]></name>
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  <date_added>Mon Sep 24 13:50:27 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Sep 24 13:50:27 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[When this book was first published I could not wait to read it.  I was already a BEE fan and I thought it completely horrible that the book was being censored and protested by people who had probably never read it.  The day of its release I ran to my local bookseller for a copy.  Nothing attracts me...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6720566">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="33388338">
    <user id="1447864">
    <name><![CDATA[MyFleshSingsOut]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Lake Villa, IL]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>8</votes>
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Sep 20 17:39:52 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Sep 20 01:13:09 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[So I find myself writing much more in comments sections than I do in my own review sections.  Occasionally I think I've had something good to say in these online conversations.  So for this review I present a series of posts (mostly mine) from the comments section of <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71784392">another review of this book</a> whic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33388338">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="28299434">
    <user id="605328">
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  <date_added>Fri Jul 25 15:22:32 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jul 25 15:36:15 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Because sometimes life is shit. <br/><br/>This is the way Satire should be, no mercy no quarter. I love the construction of the novel, the way Bateman's madness is revealed gradually just dropped phrases, and idle thoughts which are given no more or less weight then the descriptions of conspicuous...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28299434">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19009049">
    <user id="191616">
    <name><![CDATA[Kris]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[New York, NY]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Mar 30 13:10:18 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Mar 30 13:10:40 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>Thank God that somebody stopped me from putting this on the required reading list for my Gothic Monsters class before I had actually read it. Actually, that would be my aforementioned fiancee again. Given my typical pattern of assigning reading to the students that I haven't yet read myself......<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19009049">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9389586">
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  <date_updated>Wed Nov 21 06:28:30 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is really amazing. It takes place in the &quot;greed is good&quot; era of 1980's America and is a picture of the flashy, monied life of wall street bankers. The main character - Patrick Bateman - is depicted in such a memorable way that I think he's really one of the all time stand out cha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9389586">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="25641674">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[readers with guts of iron, psychopaths, yuppie scum, Jared Leto]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jun 27 00:59:56 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jul 13 10:32:06 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I walked up to the counter of my local bookstore (Denver's famous Tattered Cover) with American Psycho in my hand, the attendant behind the counter offered me a warning. &quot;Ah yes,&quot; he said, mind reeling back to the bestsellers of seventeen years ago, &quot;I remember reading this one w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25641674">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="18618626">
    <user id="758904">
    <name><![CDATA[E]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Mar 29 05:31:24 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been reading books that were technically &quot;too old&quot; for me for a long time-- I'd hit the Adult Fiction section of my local library by age 1o-- but it rarely happens that upon finish/reading a book, I think, &quot;Uh-oh. This was a bad idea.&quot; <br/><br/>I'm not saying that looking...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18618626">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Drunken Book Group]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jan 03 23:27:15 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jan 16 13:41:59 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Surprisingly good! <br/><br/>I didn't want to read this and after about 3 pages I was a hair away from putting it down (if there's one thing I can't stand to read, it's about fashion)... But I kept on and really took a liking to it. Yes, it is obscene (for lack of a better word), with a nearly rel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11606010">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8843872">
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    <name><![CDATA[Emily]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[people not offended by really offensive things]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Nov 08 11:59:13 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this book immensely, although I was reading it on a plane and feeling very self conscious because the main character was having extremely graphic sex with a prostitute and then very graphically slaughtered her.<br/>I was reading a lot of reviews of this book and there are a lot of very st...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8843872">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[What i learned form this book???? That rich wall street people are psychotic pricks!! No, I am sure not all of them are but in this book, you really wanted pat bateman to kill them all.<br/><br/>This book was an excellently written satire of the 80's and the me me me mentality of the young wall st...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7008997">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think my first comment is - Holy Crap! This is simultaneously the book that I wish I'd never heard about and a book that I'm so glad I've read. Most of the ideas and imagery presented in this book are incredibly disturbing and haunting and I wish I'd never been exposed to them. At the same time, t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5491445">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Jul 25 19:30:47 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Oct 06 11:09:44 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you're sufficiently &quot;up&quot; on American culture, this book will blow you away.  So amazingly subtle and brazenly powerful at the same time you won't be able to put it down.  Easily a required read for anyone who loves to be shocked by deep writing and multiple, overlaying, and twisting plo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3533478">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Apr 24 02:58:05 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Hey, I'd sure like money.  Maybe I'll write a book about cutting off a woman's jaw and facefucking her!  Yea! People'll kick up a fuss and buy it based on controversy alone!  But books are long, and I can honestly only come up with like four ways to kill people, and three different types of he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20860125">more...</a>]]></body>
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