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 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.