Misread masterpiece or bloody garbage?
>>7898085
garbage
Edgy for edgy sake, stating-of-the-obvious (wow our status-obsessed consumer culture makes us self absorbed and lacking in empathy??? GIVE THIS GUY A PULITZER), but a little funny and clever at times.
>>7898176
/thread
>>7898085
the style certainly makes it entertaining and sometimes downright hilarious, but it doesn't amount to anything of substance overall, save for the visceral feeling of void conveyed at the end
The opening chapter is pretty amazing, senpai.
>>7898085
It's pretty funny.
But I wouldn't list it as a literary classic.
/lit/ will feign a vague contempt for Ellis, but in reality this is a pretty good novel. Its pervasive wit qaongside its ( albeit shallow) social commentary still makes it an entretaining book. Yea, it's not Moby fucking Dick but it's a good book and worth the read.
>>7898085
It'd be better if it was less popular.
>>7898557
I see you left your bike at the apple store. I'll telegraph you my details so you can pick it up.
honestly one of the few times the movie was much better
>>7898579
but the movie wasn't even good
It takes a long time for a book's true literary value to really emerge. I think in a hundred years, when all is said and done, and we've got robots walking robot dogs on leashes of internet-connected spider's silk, I think American Psycho will be utterly forgotten and read by no one.
