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8699390 No.8699390 [Reply] [Original]

>"We will press this boycott very hard," said Tammy Bruce, the president of the Los Angeles chapter. "This is not art. Mr. Ellis is a confused, sick young man with a deep hatred of women who will do anything for a fast buck. And Mr. Mehta is worse. Ellis could have gone on writing until he choked on his own vomit if Vintage had not agreed to publish this misogynistic garbage."

What did she mean by this?

>> No.8699413

>>8699390
that she has poor reading comprehension.

>> No.8699508

>>8699390
My soggy knee, like, literally Hilter.

>> No.8699525

>>8699390

That Brett Easton Edgelord is a hack and that his magnum opus is a shitty postmodern appropriation of de Sade's edgelordism.

She's completely right you know.

>> No.8699548

>>8699390
She means she is one of those absolutely retarded people incapable of reading a book where the protagonist is a bad person without assuming you are supposed to support the ideas, actions and beliefs of that protagonist. Sort of like assuming anybody who read Lolita is a pedo or anybody who read mein kampf is a nazi.

>> No.8699623

>>8699548
>implying anyone but pedos read Lolita or edgy poltards read mein kampf

>> No.8699755

>>8699623
>My depth is comparable to a breath on a cold mirror.
>Alternatively, my trolls are piss poor.

>> No.8699788

Drawing attention to that content made me skim it for them.

It's funny how the author decries victimhood, yet his characters are failed alphas and victims of a suppressive matriarchy.

>> No.8700172

>>8699788
Fiction =/= reality, jackass.

>> No.8701093

>>8699390
The book was pretty sick, to be honest. And not that good even despite all the sick shit he put into it.

>> No.8701099

>>8699548
Have you actually read it?

>> No.8701110

>>8701099
Have you actually comprehended it?

>> No.8701122

>>8699390
>You have to be 18 to borrow this book from a public library

Wow... Bradbury was right.

>> No.8701127
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8701127

>>8701122

>> No.8701128

>>8701110
Did you enjoy the Saw movies as well?

>> No.8701145

>>8701128
I'm not >>8699548
I found the Saw movies lacking. At least one of them had an unsolvable trap that defeated the purpose, and the one with the stupid bitch that stuck both her arms into the heroin trap was ludicrous. If you're going to incorporate shock gore into your movie or book, at least make it consistent with your themes, lest your work be shitty and it's commentary on the human condition pretentious.

>> No.8701338

I don't agree with the quote in OP post, but does anyone else think this book sucks?
It's the only book I've started and couldn't finish. It felt like such a chore to read.

>> No.8701712

>>8701338
The majority of the book is banal descriptions of Bateman's everyday life. It's sharply contrasted to the violence of his secret (and very dubious) life as a prolific serial murderer.

>> No.8701724

>>8699390
>What did she mean by this?

Obviously that her ideology is more important than other people's livelihood.