Sam Moore
(re-read)
Read it if you like: Seinfeld; greed being good; Huey Lewis and the News; molecular gastronomy; the world ending not with a bang but with a whimper; architectural digest tours; Ludwig Van and a bit of the old ultraviolence
***
Weirder and more like Seinfeld than I remember; the stream of consciousness so effective in terms of just burying you in Bateman's brain and the way he sees the world: all slick, hollow surfaces. Struck by the fact there's not much violence and grizzly stuff (but when it rains, it pours...), so much of it is Bateman wandering through a hell-ish, barren landscape, a world that's different to everyone around him; informed by money, status, suits, Those little flickering moments of the mask slipping, mode of address changing is great.
It's also, incredbly funny; in the dialogue, in the ridiculous food, even in some of the most brutal and unsettling moments there are jokes that cut through it.
(re-read)
Read it if you like: Seinfeld; greed being good; Huey Lewis and the News; molecular gastronomy; the world ending not with a bang but with a whimper; architectural digest tours; Ludwig Van and a bit of the old ultraviolence
***
Weirder and more like Seinfeld than I remember; the stream of consciousness so effective in terms of just burying you in Bateman's brain and the way he sees the world: all slick, hollow surfaces. Struck by the fact there's not much violence and grizzly stuff (but when it rains, it pours...), so much of it is Bateman wandering through a hell-ish, barren landscape, a world that's different to everyone around him; informed by money, status, suits, Those little flickering moments of the mask slipping, mode of address changing is great.
It's also, incredbly funny; in the dialogue, in the ridiculous food, even in some of the most brutal and unsettling moments there are jokes that cut through it.