“Bateman’s voice – obsessive, and only a very small fraction of a degree madder than the average style magazine – is a superb achievement: equally unsettling when he describes a suit, the ’emotional honesty’ of Phil Collins, or doing unspeakable things to prostitutes. There’s also the disturbing uncertainty of the whole thing. Should we believe anything Bateman says? Does he actually look good? … Is he really a killer? Do cash machines really demand that he feeds them cats?”