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in theory this book ticks all the boxes i look for in fiction. charmingly aged but still so real and true, kind of gay but still edgy, with lots of solipsistic musings on relationships from cool/pretentious artsy college kids. but somehow i still dragged myself thru this book and it was so annoying to finish. maybe it's the writing style, maybe it's the fact i kept confusing character names a good 3/4 into the book (did they all have the same narrative voice or is that just me??). coming to the realization that as much as i like the stuff ellis talks about theme wise i absolutely can't stand the writing style (had a warning sign when reading american psycho but that book has more plausible deniability due to the intentionally dense writing).
EDIT: cross media reference time!! just finished arakis teenage apocalypse trilogy and now i wish he directed da film adapt of dis book (gay/edgy/party/drugs/solipsism????????? (also imagine da soundtrack potential))

willablue's review against another edition

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2.0

Actual rating: 2,5

joshtenet's review against another edition

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kind of just Less Than Zero 2.0 (Clay from the book even has a short section from his perspective! Patrick Bateman too) but the prose is a bit more polished (and I really like Ellis's style). American Psycho is still his best book by quite a large margin.