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Hey /lit/ my gf is looking for a book similar to American Psycho, she really likes those disturbing books with murder and stuff. Any help? Are a lot of Brett Easton Ellis books similar?

>> No.4451938

>>4451925
Glamorama is to the 90's what American Psycho was to the 80's.

>> No.4451934

oh dude cool u have a gf too?my gf likes books too. sweet. you should checkout haunted by palahniuk he is edgy ha u know how girls are right? ahhah am i right?

>> No.4451944
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Apparently Ellis was very influenced by Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion

>> No.4451966

Not really so much a "book", but I thought that Martin McDonagh's play "The Pillowman" was pretty fucked up. It's a short read.

>> No.4453006

Parfum or whatever its called

where the guy enjoys smells or something

metrosexual psycho stuff

>> No.4453023

>>4451944
OP I second this and I'd add Nathanael West's Miss Lonely Hearts or The Day of the Locust. Play it as it Lays is compared to West's work and I think he's kind of a forgotten master. Also Ellis' novel Less Than Zero explores some of the hopelessness present in American Psycho albeit differently and with less violence. She may also enjoy the short stories of George Saunders specifically the volume Civilwarland in Bad Decline and Pastoralia.

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>>4453023
>George Saunders

>> No.4453122

Try "Kill Your Friends" by John Niven.

It's about a ruthless talent scout in the Brittish music industry. It's a little lighter on social commentary, but more humorous and just as dark with a truly unpleasant narrator.

>> No.4453144

2666

>> No.4453165

BEE basically took A Rebours and added murder.

Read A Rebours. It's better anyway.

>> No.4453170

Tell her not to be such an idiot

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>>4451925
This is the first book I read this year, and it blew my fucking mind. I heartily recommend it to both you and your girlfriend.

>> No.4453185

Tell her to read The Room by Hubert Selby Jr. and then see if she still wants to read books like these.

>> No.4453201

>>4453144
Seconding this. It's long, but gripping and very gruesome in parts. If she just likes the gore, try her on the Cobra Event- it's about a virus that causes you to eat yourself. That, or Battle Royale is one I haven't read but I've heard lots of good things about it

>> No.4453495

WATCH OUT - Joseph Suglia. Is. lord.

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>>4451925

>> No.4455263

>>4455253
>Gira
Is his /lit/ worth checking out? Love Swans and Angels of Light

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>>4455263
This

>> No.4455445

>>4453122
one T

>> No.4455476

>>4455263
Of course he is. Those short stories are from his early 80s period. They read just like his EPs back then.

>> No.4455484

>>4455263

I've read this, have a signed copy from Michael :3 It's fantastic, if you like early Swans lyrics, and the feel of the music, you'll love it. His writing bludgeons you, it's great :D

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Zombie - Joyce Carol Oates

fictionalized account of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer