Is this book still worth reading?
I'm already familiar with other transgressive literature. I also enjoyed the film, watched it like 5 times.
Is this book still worth reading?
Levi Jenkins
James Ward
It's an OK book. One of the rare books that the movie adaptation is better than the book. Ellis is a cock too so best not to fund his retarded lifestyle.
Joshua Cook
Yeah, I don't really know much about Ellis, but he seems like a fag hack. Book is only OK, I'd say don't bother.
Carter Myers
No. It's an edgelord book for Milo fanboys.
Aiden Hughes
>edgelord
opinion dismissed
Camden Moore
Its alright, gave a very insightfull look on how a madman thinks. I would read it if you have nothing else to read.
Robert Bailey
I thought the complete opposite, the movie was a lot worse in my opinion, and I couldn't enjoy it after reading the book.
Asher Cook
But Bale's performance was top notch.
Eli Garcia
Its funny.
Matthew Gonzalez
It's pretty good. Read Glamorama after.
Liam Hughes
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Brandon Perry
It's fine, it's like the movie but turned up two notches.
This wasn't what it was about.
Camden Jackson
>This wasn't what it was about.
Right. It can only have one meaning (which - of course - is yours).
Nathan Kelly
Why do people say the whole novel is a daydream or a delusion? Nothing in the book hints at that and such themes are realistic given the materialism of wall street.
Gabriel Edwards
No clue. I haven't read it, nor seen the movie. But I would say that it can be on a lot of things, which depends solely on the reader.
Isaac Collins
>Nothing in the book hints at that
Wew lad
Nicholas Carter
it makes very little difference one way or the other. annoyed when people get hung up on a minor plot detail when the book is a character & social analysis
Asher Cooper
Pretty much my exact opinion on American Psycho.
The film works as a campy dark comedy, whereas the book is decent but drags on for too long. By the end it's basically just masturbation.
Benjamin Gonzalez
Whether or not it's real is intentionally left ambiguous but the fact that this guy found the possibility unthinkable indicates his mental retardation.
Justin Gutierrez
It's not even intentionally left ambiguous.
Isaiah Moore
Easton literally said it in an interview you wewladding faggot. Fuck you.
Caleb Harris
>turning a meme I employed into a verb
Just kill me now
Ethan Johnson
Correct.
Jaxon Phillips
It's a great book and definitely worth your time. Better than the movie.
I prefer Glamorama, Ellis' best, but this one prepares you for it.
Jace Watson
Because Ellis himself adopts that position: “American Psycho was a book I didn’t think needed to be turned into a movie. I think the problem with American Psycho was that it was conceived as a novel, as a literary work with a very unreliable narrator at the center of it and the medium of film demands answers. It demands answers. You can ambiguous as you want with a movie, but it doesn’t matter — we’re still looking at it. It's still being answered for us visually. I don’t think American Psycho is particularly more interesting if you knew that he did it or think that it all happens in his head. I think the answer to that question makes the book infinitely less interesting.”
Colton Morgan
>Ellis himself adopts that position
By which I mean that he adopts the position that we don't know whether "he did it or ... it all happens in his head". So the possibility that it is not real was apparently present from the conception of the novel.
Brody Rodriguez
yeah it's worth reading. shit is hilarious.
Jayden Phillips
>not knowing what a verb is
Kill me first.
Landon Wilson
True, I thought it was funny