/lit/ - Literature

what does /lit/ think of this and ellis' other works?

why was he obsessed with Donald Trump?

What are your thoughts on this book, lads?

Opinions?

Is there a book with a more painful buildup than American Psycho?

The first 130 or so pages are absolute torture and are about as entertaining as reading a men's fashion catalogue

I am in the process of reading along with audiobook of pic related and I am wondering, besides dubs did 4chan latched so heavily onto this because it referenced autism, has a character make a nigger joke, and Bateman is into feminine dick porn

"Look man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark and stupid it is? In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and magical that still live and glow despite the times' darkness. Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this dark world AND to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it. You can defend "[American] Psycho" as being a sort of performative digest of late-eighties social problems, but it's no more than that." - David Foster Wallace

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I'm thinking of getting this book since I really liked the movie.

Anyone here that read it have anything to say about it?

Would you recommend it to someone else to read? On a scale of 1-10 how much did you enjoy reading the book?

Thanks.