/lit/ - Literature

Looking for a new read.
Just got done with American Psycho and loved it.

Now looking for something similar, mostly regarding in a alpha-male superiority, high ego, narcissistic, very dark humor, maybe reality bending twists?

Someone needs to write an 'American Psycho' for the 21st century. You know, some sort of biting satire that really captures postmodern apathy, popular culture's banalization of reality, corporate globalization, and all this newfangled internet shit, facebook and all that.

Thematically, Fight Club was kind of close, albeit missing a lot. And as a work of literature in general, it was pretty vapid, especially in comparison to American Psycho. (I haven't read the former, but from what I've read from the comments that people who have read it, I gather this is the general consensus.)

It's a big task, admittedly, but someone must be working on it?

ITT: post GOOD books about serial killers plox

Books that can help me plan a revenge. A fucking revenge. I believe there is something interesting.

pic kind of related

I just wrote a persuasive essay on why American Psycho should be added as a summer reading option in high schools. If I get doubles as my grade... I think my life will be complete. Also ITT:LET'S DISCUSS THE WORKS OF BRET EASTON ELLIS

carrie was kinda the opposite of that you know? Bitch is unpopular, gets some powers, stays unpopular, and fucking kills everyone.

>>861133
GUISE, his odd thomas is FLOATING about THIN AIR. This shit is not only esoteric, its PARANORMAL!

>>567425

\lololol

The play's the thing,
Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.

>>513197

/sci/fag here

agree, if you don't know basic things about the world, how electricity works, how microwaves work, how antibiotics work, how temperature works, how light refraction works, how sound propogates, how waves travel, how to calculate changes in acceleration, how to do basic calculus and how to do basic sciences then you dont know shit about the world.

basically if we sent an English PHd back in time he would be totally useless to the society, unable to contribute anything, unable to give them electricity or explain germ theory

if we took a physics/chem PHd and sent him back in time, he would advance their society at an exponential rate..they would get electricity, phones, cars, computers, a periodic table of elements, a proper germ theory, etc etc....

he would actually contribute to progression and help them understand their world

the best thing an avid fiction reader would do is maybe add some analysis of poetry or fiction which no one would give a shit about and would have no impact on society....

Is American Psycho worth the reading?