/lit/ - Literature

>>8791735

Wow, cherrypicking a couple of passages to represent the entire work? Hey I can do that too!

Proof that /lit/ is full of shit. Here is an actual passage from American Psycho, rated #51 in /lit/'s top books of all time, above Hemingway, Homer, Faulkner and Goethe.

And believe me that's not the only passage I could pull from that book. So there you go! OBVIOUSLY Bret Easton Ellis just wrote it as a giant circlejerk to 70s/80s music amirite??

Sarcasm aside, I like both American Psycho and Genesis. The point is, the haters/trolls in this thread have no merit to their argument. In fact they don't have an argument at all, other than to latch on to the 80's nostalgia bit and somehow construe that as proof that it's a bad novel.

The funny part is, that passage isn't even that bad. It's written from Wade's POV, and it's interesting to see him ramp up, bragging more and more proudly about all the stuff he's read/watched/played. Do you know any supergeeks in real life? This is EXACTLY HOW THEY ACT once you give 'em an inch! The book is written by geeks for geeks, get over it.