Saw the movie and a big fan of the book told me it doesn’t do the book justice. I was about to go buy it when I saw I had it (along with Altered States and Requiem for a Dream) in my massive pile of books I havent read yet.
What did yall think about the book? If I remember correctly a feminist reimagining is coming
I read and quite enjoyed it. Fair warning though the violence is horrific in its explicit detail but I thought it did an interesting job of a man slowly slipping into insane delusion.
The violence in this book isn't even close to Blood Meridian. American Psycho is visceral, but nothing you can't read in any Stephen King book.
No, American Psycho is definitely worse than Blood Meridian. In Blood Meridian you have Indians smashing babies on rocks and offscreen pedophilia murder, but in American Psycho a guy is cutting the lips off a woman with scissors, then raping her. Far far worse than Stephen King and probably the worst I've read or watched. Not sure what was going on, but Bret Easton Ellis is gay and probably tapped into some psychosadistic part of his personality.
It's kind of a shame because the concept of the book is pretty good and some chapters are hilarious. The movie and the book have different high/low points, but overall the movie is a better package because the violence isn't intense to the point of distraction.
I thought American Psycho was a very surface level story. It presents these scenarios to the reader that seem horrific, but I found that I wasn't drawn into the characters psychology at all during these events. It was like watching a scene happen outside the actual perpetrator or victims mind instead of being forced to live the scene out inside the perpetrator or the victims mind.
It is 100% a surface level story, especially because the protagonist is a sociopath who is incapable of thinking about the world outside of pop cultural clichés and banalities that he uses to fool other people into thinking he is normal. It does that gimmick very well. But Blood Meridian is obviously in a completely different league, being one of the greatest novels of the last 50 years.
What is Blood Meridian about?
Cool!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFLGslCzNZw
Cool by Cormac McCarthy. I loved No Country for Old Men.
Thanks!
Pretty sure they already did a female/feminist version, and the story didn’t hit the same for reasons I can’t remember, but swapping the genders destroyed the psychopath mentality.
Oh yea they did. Doesn’t stop holllywood
It's basically like reading an autist's diary where said autist also happens to be a sadistic murderer. There'll be a few pages of plot, and then for no reason, Bateman starts talking about the Billboard 100 of that particular week for the next 5 pages. You kinda see this in the film version where he goes on about Huey Lewis or Phil Collins, but it's 10x worse in the book.
It's quite interesting with these weird segways that become funny at the end where it just spends 1 page and a half talking about a new characters clothing brands.
It's worth your time to read. You mightn't like it but you won't regret reading it.
That's just the current government.