American Psycho is a beautifully controlled, careful, important novel . . . The novelist's function is to keep a running tag on the progress of the culture; and he's done it brilliantly . . . A seminal book -- Fay Weldon ? Washington PostSerious, clever and shatteringly effective ? Sunday TimesFor its savagely coherent picture of a society lethally addicted to blandness, it should be judged by the highest standards -- John Walsh ? Sunday TimesThat the book's contents are shocking is downright un...