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⛰ What It's About Patrick Bateman has it all: good looks, youth, charm, intelligence , education at Harvard, reservations at very expensive restaurants and a job on Wall Street that complements the wealth he was already born with. However, here's the kicker: he's a fucking psychopath! He pulls us into a dark underworld where the American Dream becomes a nightmare. 🧠 Thoughts Intro I'm going to discuss most of the themes of the book without spoiling anything (this book just can't be spoiled because there's nothing special about the ending). I'm going to talk about both the book and the movie; I'll quote from the book and put screenshots from the movie. This analysis will be useful to you even if you haven't read this book yet because it will make you aware of the themes once you read the actual book. This analysis is also useful if you'd like to catch a glimpse of the harshness of the book without actually having to go through this cruel experi...

⛰ What It's About An elderly wealthy woman, who catered for the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot as a war refugee and invited Hastings to stay at her place (Styles court), gets murdered in her own bedroom by poison after being warned in advance. Many of her household are suspected: her stepsons who look forward to her death in order to inherit all her fortune, her much younger recent husband who also wants to inherit her fortune, her her lifelong friend and her protégé. 🧠 Thoughts Surprisingly enough, Christie's first book was The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) which featured Hercule Poirot, the famous Belgian detective, and his friend Colonel Hastings . So, why's that surprising, you ask? Because the book is so good from my POV and I didn't notice a difference in Christie's style between that book and the following ones. I have to say that I expected her writing style to be a little different and I also expected Poirot's character to be a bit of...