More than two decades have passed since Brett Easton Ellis' violent book rocked the publishing world.
Twenty-five years ago, on March 6, 1991, Bret Easton EllisAmerican Psychowas published.
(Feast your eyes onthe books failing grade, here.)
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In many ways its about how horrible serial killers are.
I cant understand how women can mistake the book for a how-to on torture and dismemberment.
Whether he was bothered by its violence or not, Ellis was certainly impressed with his own prose.
EWs eagle-eyed books editor Tina Jordan noticed that the authorplagiarized himself repeating scenes fromLess Than ZeroinAmerican Psycho.
Step into our time machine to look back onAmerican Psychos wild publishing story 25 years later.
