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a novel by the US writer Brett Easton Ellis, that was also made into a successful film. When the book was ↑ publish ed , some people criticized the amount of violence, especially towards women, and the detailed way in which the violence is described. Other people said that the characters and the story are ↑ symbolic rather than real, and that the book is about modern ↑ society 's ↑ greed and desire for too much food, money, power, and possessions.