This book was hilarious

[Anonymous No.17311390]

I just finished American Psycho and wtf /lit/. All my life I've heard this book was some dark and disturbing novel, and maybe it was too much in the early 90s, but the violence isn't that bad today and I found myself laughing through most of it. There are so many ridiculous scenes.
What's the rest of /lit/'s thoughts on it?

[Anonymous No.17311414]

>>17311390
It's a funny book about yuppie consumerism and toxic masculinity. My favorite parts are the listing of brands that filters plebs. I also really enjoyed the few pages that changed POV.

[Anonymous No.17311434]

These are hilarious too, for the same reasons. Check em out, OP. There’s a reason they’re memes on this board.

[Anonymous No.17311533]

>>17311390
I think I skipped his last review of some album. It’s funny yeah. The apparel descriptions are ridiculous but I get what Ellis is trying to illustrate. At certain points the gore was too much, the rat and metal tube part was really uncomfortable.
Overall an ok book I guess.

[Anonymous No.17311609]

>>17311390
Read it last summer and had a blast, thoroughly enjoyable and highly humorous, agreed.

[Daveed Fawsta Wallis No.17311661]

>>17311390
Flat characters without growth and relentlessly mocking society and the reader without providing solutions to the problems it presents.
Flawless solace Wallace tallest phallis

[Daveed Fawsta Wallis No.17311677]

>>17311434
Haha Croaca go pssssss

[Anonymous No.17311728]

>>17311414
>My favorite parts are the listing of brands
then you're gonna love glamorama!

[Anonymous No.17311739]

>>17311661
>>17311677
fag or woman

[Anonymous No.17311743]

>>17311414
Yes, I did find it interesting how Bateman's narration became disassociated. Lends credence to the theory that he might be schizo. I enjoyed the brand listings as well, it just helps highlight how materialistic that whole world is.
>>17311434
Actually Gardner, I downloaded Call of the Crocodile. It was one of the worst written books I've read in a long time.

For some reason, you don't use separate paragraphs for dialogue with multiple characters. So there will be times that three characters are talking to each other, all in the same paragraph, and it reads like a jumbled mess.

Also, your characters are flat and your prose reads like you're trying to convey more than you're capable of expressing.

Your use of allegory is damn near autistic. In just three pages within the second chapter, you made a reference to Greek mythology, The Divine Comedy, and Jonah and the Whale (the last in comparison to the onset of Autumn).

And, of, course, the, infamous, comma, 'style', that, you, use.

Your idea is creative though, I'll give you that.
>>17311533
I skimmed over most of the album review chapters. I'm sure there was meaning to them, but I'm not enough of a music buff to really parse them.
>>17311661
kys tripfag

[Anonymous No.17311754]

>>17311739
This desu. I only ever read these complaints about it from women, who are incapable of detaching their ego from a story.