By far one of the best books I've ever read.

The music reviews perform two functions in the book.

1. They normally come directly after a gruesome murder and they provide the reader with a breather and change in tone.

2. They're probably the only places in the novel where Patrick shows genuine emotion or excitement. He kills pitilessly and without feeling. Music is the only place where he shows some passion, or his approximation of passion.

TIL I’m Bateman.

This sounds very interesting, definitely check out Why Fish Don’t Exist, there’s a number of things running through it, but one of them is eugenics.

Cynthia voight....good young adult writet

My first books were called true value series I think.they used famous people and showed the values system like trust honesty and faith by telling stories...and also the seus books I got books before screen time and my over active imitation still gets me into trouble but I can think for mysrlf

Psychopaths don't have emotional reactions.
They don't value objects, and they don't obsess about details.

Neurodivergents on the other hand...

Cause he memorized someone elses review of it because he can't form his own opinion because everyone is the same and he desperately wants to be different.

Kill John Lennon

That's a super cool tske and a really good parallel

I remember reading that years ago, I'll reread and see how it is now that I'm older. Why would that one fit in with these three?

Ah thr boring beofre the storm is interesting, because you are correct in that these chapters, now that I reread, I pretty much skim. I used to look for something deeper, but never could find anything

lol this is the only take in this thread i 101% disagree with

That's awesome insight, thank you for providing that

aw man, the film is one of the greatest ever made. His performance as Bateman was next level. Thanks tom cruise 🤣

There is no fuckin way the foods he talks about are real lmao I always thought it was just an amalgamation of fancy sounding ingredients, because most of the things sound horrible

That was my exact thoughts too. The only things there are entire chapters dedicated to are pop music and murder.

[removed]

It's an unpleasant book, deliberately so. It's the POV of an annoying little shit with a lot of mental problems. He's an irritating character, so it's not fun to spend time with him.

This book is similar to Lolita in that both books put you inside the head of an unpleasant person. Of course, in the case of Humbert Humbert, he's evil and criminal, as well as unpleasant.

I totally agree and I absolutely love this book. She has 2(?) others which are also good. I was so impressed with how she picked herself up and who she became. Definitely a tough read though. Education is similar, also great, but that one hit me so much harder and I couldn't finish it.

Thanks all - some interesting things to explore. I’ve just started a Harlan Coben book and thus far it’s much better then James Patterson 😂

I much preferred Franny and Zooey

I loved OOTS! I have forgotten all about it and need to get back to reading it. Thank you!!!

I didn't keep track of the book numbers but I suspect he's talking about >!Andrew Wray!<

American Girls Collection of books started me on a my lifelong love of social and class histories.