You Look Like A Nail of Ottawa, ON asks: What was the last book (fiction only, no reference books) that you read?
The latest fiction book I have read, and am, in fact, currently reading, is American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis.
In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.
I think you should stop reading that book.
Everyone I know who has read that book (including myself) has acted weird for at least a month afterwards. I couldn’t finish it the second time because it started consuming all of my thoughts…
The funny thing is, we don’t find it odd that he opens it to a random passage and begins reading it aloud.
Stunned, feverish, feeling empty, I contemplate the next move, the only sound the dial tone buzzing noisily from the receiver. Gather my bearings, count to six, reopen the Zagat guide and steadily regain my concentration against the almost overwhelming panic about securing an eight-thirty reservation somewhere if not as trendy as Dorsia then at least in the next-best league. I eventually get a reservation at Barcadia for two at nine, and that only because of a cancellation, and though Patricia will probably be disappointed she might actually like Barcadia–the tables are well spaced, the lighting is dim and flattering, the food Nouvelle Southwestern–and if she doesn’t, what is the bitch going to do, sue me?
You don’t find it odd. I find it extremely odd. Not atypical for him, but still, odd.
And yes, he needs to stop reading that book.