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That said, this scene was one of the best moments in the book, set in a fancy restaurant where Patrick Bateman's "friends" are comparing business cards.
Bateman maintains his composure, but is so enraged by his "friend's" superior business cards that, for a moment while he's pretending to smile, he goes blind, presumably because of blood pressure.
So angry he went blind.
He's a degenerate.
I read American Psycho slop when I was 16 only because I wanted to know why it was being banned by so many libraries.
Typically I would have consumed something of value from the Penguin Classics list instead.
I don't recall any queer shit in that book, but yes, the author is a sodomite. 'Didn't know that at the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bret_Easton_Ellis
It's a great book. It's just too difficult to understand and therefore appreciate if you read it when you were 16, or if you're stupid.
It also had kike-slop in the novel where the main character bullied poor innocent jews by calling them names in the street < vomit >.
I agree with Ellis - he touched on some good themes of losing touch with humanity through materialism and greed, but it was low quality gore slop.
But it's under the surface, that's why I said you need to be able to understand it. He expresses the alienation of the protagonist in a multitude of subtle ways, it's a book with multiple layers. I believe you really missed most of it, you miss what makes it great, a bit like people who read 1984 and think it's about surveillance cameras.
There's very little gore in that book, so you mentioning it makes me think you're getting confused with the movie.
The novel was banned in libraries all across the US and in dozens of countries because of the gore.
Have you even read the American Psycho novel slop?
Yes I read the novel. You clearly haven't read it if you think it's about gore.
In any case, who cares, I'm not going to continue arguing because you don't like a novel that I liked.