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, andBateman is into feminine dick porn
It also has hilariously violent descriptions, and there are funny parts where Bateman is just a straight up silly bastard
>>8111700
checkem
>>8111700
American Psycho has the same kind of nihilistic navel gazing in its ruminations which 4chan's userbase has come to adopt, and has a main character who is at once affluent and suffering immensely, an image many 4channers wouldn't mind projecting themselves onto. Its the Evagelion of books in that sense.
>>8111700
>this post gets dubs
It's like poetry
>>8111728
Evangelion is not nihilistic, and its protagonist is not projection material. The stereotypical 4chan user does not have a power fantasy that involves being an emotionally unstable, needy 15-year-old. Don't make comparisons like this without thinking about them.
>>8111700
It's just the sort of thing white teens either still in high school or fresh out of high school, who think they're a lot smarter than they actually are would latch onto. Anyone worth talking to will rightfully tell you that it's total garbage.
>>8111829
pottery, absolute pottery
It's fun/extreme and exageratly anti-puritain.
How can the little brats that used to make most of the userbase not like it?
>>8111700
>Alliteration on the cover
What a tryhard
>>8113520
>Alliteration on the cover
you wot m8?
>>8111899
This.
The book is relevant and valid for a tiny section of urban elite that participated in the mid 80s, for whom I guess it has or had worth, sort of like Bonfire of the Vanities (a better book about the same thing).
Anyone on here reading it are basically kids in hs reading fight club for the first time tier.
Are you fucking stupid? It's just a memorable scene, I bet 90% of 4chan posters don't even know it's a book. This place is not intelligent, 99% of posters are legitimately retarded.
>>8111700
most people on 4chan haven't read the book let alone watched the film.
how far are you along?
>>8113616
/lit/ has about 500 unique posters every months, and about 30 of them have actually read works like Ulysses.
>>8113675
>how far are you along
I'm just at the part where Batemanwas invited to go to the Deck Chairs restaurant by Courtney because he thought he has a chance of getting laid. Now while I do enjoy the gossip/shooting the shit/bantz restaurant conversations throughout this book so far but does Bret have to really spend 50 pages of indirectly conveying that yuppies are pretentious shallow snobbish hipsters that all look the same?
>>8113773
Reading over written garbage.
>>8113616
dude shut the fuck up you ARE /lit/. We ARE /lit/. /lit/ is not other people, it is not some retarded base, it is all of us. And believe it or not, most of us are either in the process of getting a degree or already have a degree, and in no way are you special or above the rest of us. You also shitpost, as you are right now, and you also say retarded things when you don't know what you're talking about. So just fuck off with this crying in every thread about how much smarter you are.
>>8111700
It's just a funny book. All the people sperging out ITT because AP isn't the third testament of the Bible need to chill.
>>8111700
It's a relatable character that has an edge factor. Most of the 4chan user-base is seemingly complacent, and similar to the laissez-faire attitude the main character permeates.
I wouldn't assume however, that many have actually read the book.
There are better books on the same subject anyway.
>>8114768
>/lit/ is other people
>>8114793
My darling! Please-
>had the book sitting right next to me
>>8111829
>Evangelion is not nihilistic
It is, it just isn't aware of it.
