/lit/ - Literature

I had a fun time listening to American Psycho and even though I mostly like to read books over listening to them, I found it enjoyable and easy to follow. What other books do you guys recommend to listen to?
Any book is welcome but would prefer entertaining books with easy to follow narratives because I am mainly listening to them in the gym
>inb4 audiobooks are lame blah blah

Can we talk about how much Ellis steals from Delillo?

Just finished picrel. Looking for more books that feature main characters who enjoy abusing women emotionally, mentally, or physically.

>>20894710
Always thought this one was pretty cool

ITT: Good novellas trapped inside bad novels.

>writes an entire book just to rant about his music tastes

>>20352546

American psycho is one of the funniest books I’ve ever read. It’s absolutely hilarious. My belly would ache on occasion from laughing. I told a friend this and he looked confused.
The obsession with Donald trump as well would send me into fits of laughter.

what are your favourite books with first-person narration?

The violence was excessive. There's no debate.

What I'm for?

What are some of the best books published in the 90s? Was it a good decade for literature? Discuss.

>I'm trying to ease one of the hollow plastic tubes from the dismantled Habitrail system up into her vagina, forcing the vaginal lips around one end of it, and even with most of it greased with olive oil, it's not fitting in properly. During this, the jukebox plays Frankie Valli singing "The Worst That Could Happen" and I'm grimly lip-syncing to it, while pushing the Habitrail tube up into this bitch's cunt. I finally have to resort to pouring acid around the outside of the pussy so that the flesh can give way to the greased end of the Habitrail and soon enough it slides in, easily. "I hope this hurts you," I say.
>The rat hurls itself against the glass cage as I move it from the kitchen into the living room. It refused to eat what was left of the other rat I had bought it to play with last week, that now lies dead, rotting in a corner of the cage. (For the last five days I've purposefully starved it.) I set the glass cage down next to the girl and maybe because of the scent of the cheese the rat seems to go insane, first running in circles, mewling, then trying to heave its body, weak with hunger, over the side of the cage. The rat doesn't need any prodding and the bent coat hanger I was going to use remains untouched by my side and with the girl still conscious, the thing moves effortlessly on newfound energy, racing up the tube until half of its body disappears, and then after a minute – its rat body shaking while it feeds – all of it vanishes, except for the tail, and I yank the Habitrail tube out of the girl, trapping the rodent. Soon even the tail disappears. The noises the girl is making are, for the most part, incomprehensible.
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just finished this book.
Did Bateman actually kill all those people?
also is Rules of Attraction worth checking out?

is it actually good? /tv/ fag here I love the movie and want more

In his putative magnum opus American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis constructs a fictional New York metropolis as the foundation for exposing the destructive nature of contemporary society’s blithe, irreverent decadence. From the cocaine-fueled debauches at nightclubs to the horrific, imaginative scenes of gore, the crazed, psychopathic Patrick Bateman vehemently disseminates an antithetical approach towards all fundamental conceptions of morality. Throughout the lurid imagery and descriptive detail from the character Patrick Bateman, Ellis beautifully captures the turmoil and heartache brought forth by the pessimistic philosophy prevalent in modern life through his hyperbolic representation of postmodern thought. Bateman’s character expresses the futility of postmodernism's characteristic irreverence, irony, and satire, as they fail to provide him with an escape or cathartic release. While his vilest acts remain unpunished, his deeds prove to be fraught and futile: nothing is left sacred, nothing is left to be valued — that includes people as individuals. Thus, his corrosive, unrestrained persona reflects the contemporary zeitgeist that perceives life as meaningless.

In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis’s unconventional narration convincingly crafts a character that seems both psychotic and out of control while maintaining a zany critique of the destructive, misanthropic sentiments that exist on the fringes of society.

What was his fucking problem?

This is such a mess to read. Is that the appeal?

I find the absurdity of the book really comical.

The only manosphere book you need to read

>>18968732
picrel. got me into rading again. Read 4 other books after this one in 3 weeks

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