BOOK SYNOPSIS

Patrick Bateman works on Wall Street in an unspecified, important but seemingly pointless job and spends his days in restaurants and bars with other men in similarly vague and successful jobs – half of whom don’t seem to know who he is. It's a life he seems to resent but he makes no attempt to escape it. At night he is the psycho from the book's title: a man who obsessively humiliates, rapes and dismembers women and anyone who he takes a dislike to. The violence is described in horrific detail but in the same bored tones Bateman talks about his expensive meals in wealthy downtown New York.

 

 

POD SYNOPSIS 

Is this the most divisive book we've covered? It certainly felt like it. It's also our most plagiaristic show to date, including a section on the pod's favourite murders which is in no way related to or affiliated with another (much less successful) podcast. There's also chat about tapeworms, star signs and Josh Crompton's daily morning routine in Haringey (set to some music we definitely own the rights to). It all adds up to one of our longest and best episodes to date. And features Josh's magnum opus pun in chapter 4 of WormWorld: 'Go Fourth and Prosper' (it's better than that).  That comes in around 1.18 if you can't wait.