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>>6506562
The zoo one

>>6506562
"Where the Beat Sounds the Same"

The zoo was great
But i'd have to say the one where he brings a girl home and covers her face in mace. Was that the same girl as the wooden board nailed to tits and mouse in vagina?

When he murders that girl he dated in college.

>enjoying American Psycho for its violence
>not delving deeper into its critique of yuppiedom

Are you all sadists?

>>6506968
He maced basically every girl he murdered.

>>6507006
>delving deeper into its critique of yuppiedom
What was there to delve into? He beats the reader over the head with it for 400 pages.

Patty Winters Show

>>6507006
>someone is actually trying to act like BEE is fucking highbrow
>400 pages of literally "money, status and a lack of consequence makes you a bad person mkay"

Like Gatsby didn't shove that down my fucking throat already

>>6508719
>implying anything in american psycho is a critique of consumerism

>>6509831
It is, although more directly it's about capitalism and how it commoditizes all things, even interpersonal interaction and human life.

If you were a little smart you would have realized this when PB picks up prostitutes in the meat packing district with a florescent, glowing MEAT sign behind them.

>>6506562
>MOBY DICK

>>6506562
When he leaves the christmas party and tries to get a limo home and yells about the midgets

Probably the scene with the detective

>That retarded fake conversation he had when he walked into his office
>The Yale Thing
>That ridiculously awkward sequence when he's trying to figure out his alibi
>The second Four Seasons

Honestly, it's probably the most entertaining part of the book. Most of the violence really just disgusted me.

A lot of people think American Psycho is a boring, repetitive book, but I found all those shallow pointless conversations quite funny

When he puts a dollar into a beggar's cup and it ends up being a liberal college student drinking coffee.

Wait do people on this board actually like BEE? I thought it was a joke!

>>6506562
the chapter on bottled water is just too good

my fav scene is the 3rd person narration

The intro when they eat sushi with the two edgy cambden grads, van den smith and stash

>>6510706
That and the Jean chapters shows that Patrick is only capable of being dominant or alpha when hes around vapid idiots. He turns into an absolute sperg when forced to talk to a normal person

>>6506562
whenever he tried to score some cocain.

When he tries to make sausage out of the dead girl in his apartment but he ends up crying hysterically because he never cooked before and doesn't know how.

>>6513000
>I just wanna be loved
Bateman is a scary character because he's not a monster incapable of empathy, but someone whos humanity has been utterly buried by surface and constant image preservation, to the point where he's lost touch with it completely.

I like the scene where Patrick and his friends are having the 80s equivalent of a skype conference, and they're trying to get their dates to go to the wrong restaurant.

>>6507006
a mix of both is my favorite scene
>Patrick at dinner with a friend
>Friend talks about how the Chinese are taking over American markets and shit
>Patrick goes out and kills a Japanese delivery boy

>>6513151

>Yeah like sorry or whatever

I admit, I had a giggle.

I liked the sequence where he goes out to the Hamptons with his girlfriend. They have breakfast in bed and write each other love letters for a few days but by the third day she's eating nothing but sugar free candy and he eats sand and brings home a jellyfish he finds on the beach. He shares the microwaved jellyfish with his girlfriend's dog.

>>6513151
Reverse the races.

Scott Ann?

>>6513852
First generation yuppies encountered by Sean Bateman and Lauren hyde. Ann and Scott adopted a Korean orphan they named Scott Jr. And sent him to boarding school. Ann opens resteruants with her dads money and when Patrick Bateman and Courtney have dinner with them Scott and Bateman talk about Phil Collins and Scotts sub par stereo. Ann has this ordeal with deciding to drink or not and this upsets Scott who can't get laid otherwise. They have the identical conversation in rules of attraction. In american pyscho, Patrick tells Ann to order a Pepsi and rum not a rum and coke, because Pepsi has a better, cleaner taste and is fizzier. Patrick considers pouring acid on Scott Jr. But doesn't.

Scott and Ann are also mentioned in story of my life, iirc.

I liked the awkward elevator ride with Tom Cruise. And Patrick discussing bottled water. The endless designer's names were so annoying.

>>6506968
wait...
Is that kind of stuff actually in the book?

I saw the movie, but now I thinking I need to read the book.

> "I imagine running around Central Park on a cool spring afternoon with Jean, laughing, holding hands. We buy balloons, we let them go"

>>6514633
When I first read that line I was filled with an inexplicable surge of happiness, and from that point on I loved the book. When I finished the book and everything turned out alright I felt incredible for the rest of the day as if everything was going to be okay and it always would be.

What does this say about me?

>>6507006
It's more about consumerism and how it's impossible to find happiness through buying useless products.
Soo basically fight club and all those other edgy Palunkuncuck-esque teen novels.

>>6514455
it's almost like the same person wrote both books

IT WAS A FANTASY THE WHOLE TIME

>>6506562
Mines gotta be when he goes to that U2 concert. When Patrick and Bono's eyes meet and he realizes that Bono, just like him, is pure evil.

>>6514787
That's just the surface bruh. It's about the mindset you get from enveloping yourself within consumer culture and trying to create an image over years, how trying to embody what you believe is expected of you for years and years affects the way you think. The message 'materialism=bad' by itself would be shallow as fuck, but the characterstudy of pat bateman was really insightful for me.

>>6510706
This guy has it right here, the entire scene is hilarious. "He ate a balanced diet" gets me every time.

>>6515820
This.

>scene

>>6514544
the movie is shit

>>6517058
It takes a lot of liberties, but I think the movie captures the soul of the book pretty well .I'd even say that it's one of my favourite movie adaptations.

>>6517088

The movie is alright.

I think it assumes too much about Bateman's sanity, gives a different (less interesting) view of what happens, and takes away a lot of the shock that was in the book.

>>6510706
While I have to say, the violence served a metaphorical point, my favorite scene in the entire novel is the conversation about the reservation at Dorsia.

>>6510856
Top kek, why did I donate this book to my alma matter's English Department to be sold for their book sale.

>>6514515
>I liked your movie! Bartender!