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American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis
Restaurants booking, restaurants food, clothing, complaining, deciding which clothing style is fine and which isn't, album reviews, women, cocaine, some graphic/grotesque event and back to restaurants booking, restaurants food, clothing, complaining and the circle repeats over and over and over again. After a while, you begin to hate his routine just as he ends up hating it.
In the middle of the book when Bateman says, "I don't feel a thing," you feel the same. It bores the hell out of you, it makes you cringe at times and often, it makes you question why you are reading it when there are so many books that one could read instead, but you kept marching on to see how it ends.
Many would praise it thinking that it was a book that moved them. Nothing like that happened to me. The main character is stuck in a circle of same routine which he occasionally break with his rages but then, he does that so many times that it becomes a norm as well. And we are back to the circle!
The book might be shocking and yes it is, very graphic at times. I cringed but I kept reading because "The Walking Dead" has made me somewhat inured to the gore. I actually cringed more on the erotic scenes. They were uncomfortable for me to read. It is weird. I know!
Anyways, I won't be reading this book again.
I recommend it to people who are looking for a: unstable narrators, b: want to be shocked out of their minds, and c: want an unusual story-line.
You can skip it if you are not one of these three people. Unusual story-line because it is not your usual hero's journey. It kind of keep moving on till it ends.
If you are going to read it, Good luck!
PS. Some people have found humour in it and some were even bold enough to proclaim that they managed to laugh out loud at certain scenes. I do not know who these people are and you should avoid them too.
In the middle of the book when Bateman says, "I don't feel a thing," you feel the same. It bores the hell out of you, it makes you cringe at times and often, it makes you question why you are reading it when there are so many books that one could read instead, but you kept marching on to see how it ends.
Many would praise it thinking that it was a book that moved them. Nothing like that happened to me. The main character is stuck in a circle of same routine which he occasionally break with his rages but then, he does that so many times that it becomes a norm as well. And we are back to the circle!
The book might be shocking and yes it is, very graphic at times. I cringed but I kept reading because "The Walking Dead" has made me somewhat inured to the gore. I actually cringed more on the erotic scenes. They were uncomfortable for me to read. It is weird. I know!
Anyways, I won't be reading this book again.
I recommend it to people who are looking for a: unstable narrators, b: want to be shocked out of their minds, and c: want an unusual story-line.
You can skip it if you are not one of these three people. Unusual story-line because it is not your usual hero's journey. It kind of keep moving on till it ends.
If you are going to read it, Good luck!
PS. Some people have found humour in it and some were even bold enough to proclaim that they managed to laugh out loud at certain scenes. I do not know who these people are and you should avoid them too.