
JFC. The end of the "Lunch with Bethany" chapter was almost enough for me to quit. There are a few scenes after that that are equally disgusting and awful. I was lucky enough to be warned about the "Rat" chapter and skip it. I can't believe so many people have been willing to read such horrifying details of violence, torture, and body mutilation.
The juxtaposition of Patrick's obsession with status, brands, music and restaurants against his complete apathy toward murdering people, and the way he and his (rich, white) colleagues are fully interchangeable and mistaken for each other, amount to a very well-done critique of superficial, materialistic 1980s yuppie culture, but I hated reading such sickening scenes.
JFC. The end of the "Lunch with Bethany" chapter was almost enough for me to quit. There are a few scenes after that that are equally disgusting and awful. I was lucky enough to be warned about the "Rat" chapter and skip it. I can't believe so many people have been willing to read such horrifying details of violence, torture, and body mutilation.
The juxtaposition of Patrick's obsession with status, brands, music and restaurants against his complete apathy toward murdering people, and the way he and his (rich, white) colleagues are fully interchangeable and mistaken for each other, amount to a very well-done critique of superficial, materialistic 1980s yuppie culture, but I hated reading such sickening scenes.