Plot? What plot? This book really is just told without being fettered by things like a plot.In it's stead are seemingly random events, many of them quite gory and disturbing. It follows a prominent buisness man as his fetish for horrible and insane acts grow more and more, eventually consuming him entirely. It takes a terribly hard tense to write from, 1st-person present, (i.e. I am runing) and does a magnificent job of telling these events, in spite of it.

I love the style that Brett Easton Ellis uses in it. It's a sort of surreal farce concerning the culture of the 80s. The humor was really great too.

The movie they made out of this book. It simply pales in comparison to this fine piece of American literature.

Find a urinal cake and cover it with chocolate. You'll want to do the same thing afterwards.

Horrified and disturbed on more levels than I, or the great scientists of history, had ever thought possible.

Is abit of a one trick pony. Most of his books are alot like this, but this is, by far, my favorite.

Everyone should take a peak into the inner-workings of a man who makes Charles Manson look like Gumby.

Some of the humor probably won't sit well with some readers, and I suggest that you keep anyone, thing, idea that is under the age of 20 far away, from this piece, as it will surely cause bad bad side effects.

You'll never look at Bree the same way again either....

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