What's wrong with American Psycho?
Other than the fact that the entire story is an absurd fantasy playing out in the main character's head?^*

It's all perfectly sane, if you compare it with Glamorama.

^*Spoiler alert, by the way.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 14:51, 1 reply)

it's fucking unreadable.
that would be what's wrong with it.

But, meh, like I said. Personal opinion. I just found it to be a total emporer's new clothes thing when it came out.

it's not that much of a spoiler. if you're reading it and you think he really did fuck the neck of a tramp or shove an acid-covered drainpipe up a hooker's clunge just to introduce a starved rat into her, I reckon you should probably go back to The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 14:53, closed)

Incidentally, I've nothing particularly against Ellis
I quite liked Less than Zero.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 14:57, closed)

you just have to acclimatise to it.
american psycho, that is.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 15:07, closed)

nope, what I have to do is, having read it once
refuse to ever do so again. Writing deliberately badly as a plot point is neither big nor clever, it's just fucking annoying. Quite possibly, if you have more patience than me, there's a great book in there. Well, I guess there must be given those defending it on here.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 16:33, closed)

It's got girl-on-girl action, spluffing into disembodied heads, and nailing hookers to doors.
What's not to love?
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 15:09, closed)

it's fucking atrociously written in such a way as to make it very difficult to read certain parts.
it's obviously deliberate, and part of the whole ethos of the thing, but that sort of arse really fucking annoys me.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 16:31, closed)

I thought it skirted around the realms of plausible,
up to the point where he becomes involved with a running gun battle with the SWAT teams - then it becomes abundantly clear that his mind snapped, somewhere back at the beginning of the story.

I see it as a neat little satire of yuppie culture, buried inside a fairly purile story.

Like you say, each to their own.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 15:13, closed)