American Psycho (Paperback)

This book is one of the best I have ever read!- and trust me, I have read A LOT. This book is infamous for it's ability to not cut out the gory details; that being said, I see many complaints about the narration of the book, how it's overly explicit, how it's very focused on the characters clothes and how expensive they are; To that, I raise the fact that the narrator is an unreliable one. The narrator is none other than Patrick Bateman himself, an insane man, obsessed with status. He sees women as not people, but as status. In this book, there is little care about the emotions of others, all focused on their job, or what they're wearing, and while yes, this does get annoyingly repetitive, we are hearing Patrick Bateman's direct line of thought rather than an authors detailed explanation of a character. He cares more about how much a wristwatch costs than what the person is feeling, and I think that is written beautifully, for what it is.