r/AmericanPsycho

Like, I get that it's a satire, and it was written using some amazing rhetorical choices or whatever (first time I've ever used my ELA vocabulary.) it's unique and really makes you think.
There's no doubt the author is a smart person, but like... I think it's also obvious that he's not a great person either. It's obviously about his own experiences and also I imagine that how he saw/sees women is sprinkled in there a bit and not just made up out of nowhere but to reflect how he viewed them personally at some point, aswell as homeless people, or people of color.
I only say this because A) "normal" people aren't just thinking about this on the top of their head out of nowhere, and B) he still has said some controversial things about both women as a population and African American groups.
I just think people have a hard time accepting that someone who makes amazing pieces can also be not the greatest morally.
I think everything I'm saying is kinda obvious, but just making sure that we as a fandom all collectively agree on this

Speaking for myself I absolutely love the scene where Bateman meets Tom Cruise, and a part of me has wondered how the movie would've been received if they kept in the scene where Bateman murders a child (if memory serves an 8 year old) at the zoo.

Movie's very faithful, but I felt a lot of the humor was lost since most of the humor in the book came from Bateman's dishonest, biased, or self-centered descriptions of what he does.

After liking the movie and reading posts about how much people like the book, I started reading it recently. I'm a lifelong reader but it's already getting tedious barely 30 pages in with the constant listing of every brand name item everyone is wearing or has in their apartment. Pages and pages describing his morning routine with every item mentioned by name. I guess this is demonstrating his obsessive nature, but... will this continue throughout the entire novel?

Setting aside Jean and the homeless, I believe Bateman is not only the most civil American Psycho character of his world, but also the most human.

The leading cause of what drives him to kill is the hollowing loneliness his world has isolated him into, in opposition to his endless yearning for depth and emotional authenticity.

The more he searches for love and meaning, the more he finds trends, beauty standards, and money.

If we are able to look past the surface of his atrocities committed, everything that drives him to do what he does is from the lack of love in his world of which he has become so desperate for it has driven him to find an outlet for his rage.

I find his friends a lot more psychopathic than him, because of the fact they find comfort in the lack of warmth and depth while Bateman just wants to escape and feel accepted for who he is by someone who has meaning to their life outside of Capitalism and trends.

This is why he never killed Jean or Louis.

He kills the homeless, as well animals and children because of how much he envies their freedom from his nihilistic life—while his peers see nothing wrong with it at all.