/lit/ - Literature

>cover has a FUCKING HYPHEN IN IT

FUCK.

I bought American Psycho but I wish I had OP's cover instead of pic related

Got this one today. Any good? Worth reading?

Started to read American Psycho. So far this work is one of my favorites. The way the author make the point of view bateman, makes one indulge in the mind and thoughts of a serial killer.
If you haven't read it. i would strongly reccomened it.
What is your opinion if you have read it?

Just finished this today. Much more violent that I expected and much better than the movie. Ellis does a great job creating a claustrophobic atmosphere, and presents Patrick Bateman as a genuine insane psychopath.
Definitely recommend it.

Who is edgier-Palahniuk or Bret Easton Ellis? I've seen people compare them but according to me, Ellis is better in every which way.

the only thing in the book that makes me
think that patrick does the murders is
the cab driver who holds him at gunpoint for
killing his friend...

then again that fag bret easton ellis writes
that none of it happened in that book
lunar park (which i liked) but was an abomination
to tarnish American psycho's universe. In effect
destroying rules of attraction, less than zero and
glamorama.

I know American Psycho is generally popular among the 4chan community (images, memes, etc.)

I have read the book, but I was wondering /lit/'s opinion.

"there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there. It is hard for me to make sense on any given level. Myself is fabricated, an aberration. I am a noncontingent human being. My personality is sketchy and unformed, my heartlessness goes deep and is persistent. My conscience, my pity, my hopes disappeared a long time ago (probably at Harvard) if they ever did exist. There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it, I have now surpassed. I still, though, hold on to one single bleak truth: no one is safe, nothing is redeemed. Yet I am blameless. Each model of human behavior must be assumed to have some validity."

now i see why 4chan idolizes patrick bateman so much, this pretty much describes 4chan to a T. We are abstractions, ideas of what we want to be and nothing else, we want our own pain inflicted on all others, yet we are blameless, because we are anonymous, we have given up our hopes and dreams long ago.

Yet i doubt you will gain any deeper knowledge from this realization, this post has meant nothing

I read American Psycho and really loved it.
Are Bret Easton Ellis' other works as good?

If so, where should I start?

/lit/,

I loved American Psycho: hilarious, graphic and hilarious. Are any of the other books by Bret Easton Ellis good? Are they similar in style? If so/not so are they worth reading?

– Less Than Zero
– The Rules of Attraction
– The Informers
– Glamorama
– Lunar Park
– Imperial Bedrooms

So I just finished this and am really needing to discuss it. Have a couple questions as well that maybe some of you could clarify:

Why does everyone outside of Bateman's close circle of friends/lovers call him by the wrong name? Has he fabricated this circle of friends in his mind and are they are fictional?

Did he actually commit any of the murders at all? Or did he commit them, and nobody believes him because of his social class/prestige?

I feel like there's much more to ask but i'll start with these.

easily

Shit on the book and/or author all you want, but this cover conveys the atmosphere of the book.

Hated the movie, though.

You knew it was coming.

Does /lit/ like this?
If so can someone explain to me what you liked about it. I read it and absolutely hated it. I just couldn't stand the character. I don't mind the graphic murder scenes, those parts were actually pretty good. It was just the descriptions of his day to day life that made me hate him so much it was frustrating to read.

tl;dr What's good about American Psycho?

When Patrick Bateman fucks the dog up in American Psycho (book not film) I get really pissed.

So /lit/, and characters or actions in a book that actually make you feel outright emotion?