/lit/ - Literature

>>4901200
no one ever said his father's funeral to be an insignificant event, which is why he is going in the first place. what i said was he's attending the funeral out of obligation because, as i stated earlier, i took the character to be a socially inept autistic faggot (not unlike yourself, syn). he doesn't want to go but understands he must.
Also, this probably does happen all the time. Most likely with females from his fav. televised programs, films, books, or video games, or whatever.
Again, you are just a pretentious faggot
>>4901245
second
>>4904207
this

I was thinking Cornwell, too, but it's been poasted.

>>4901169
are you assuming i am OP?

also, what do you mean "why is he pulling over and crying? that is obvious, he is deluded in his social naivety and believes if he were to have pursued her, they would have ended together. though, his passed exampple, at the diner, or whatever, proves he would not have done a ting. still, he must make the choice, follow her and possibly meet his futurewife, or not. he chose not to follow, probably because he knew he would either not have done anything or because ofthe possibility of rejection. you are just a jealous instigator

>>4901176
this was not his story but a short summary thereof. you and syn are just pretentious fucks, assuming you aren't samefagging

ps, OP i hope to read this eventually

pps, good night, /lit/ and fuck you syn

>>4901159
was going to ask this >>4901156 myself.

thanks

>>4901144
what >>4901150 said.

i took it to be the average 4chan user. some random anon, socially inept, who probably loved his father but is going to the funeral more out of obligation.

>>4901120
I'm going to pretend that OP wrote a brilliantly perfect shortstory.

>sometimes ignorance is bliss

>>4901105
>paul owen
it was owen in the book, wasn't it? i recently the the film but haven't read the book in years.

>I think it says more if it isn't symbolic however people with the symbolic view have tangibility and I think that's the brilliance of Ellis.
i could not have said it any better, this work is not objective and interpreting it symbolically can speak for any social category, from the privileged to the street punk

>>4901086
>Doesn't really change the fact that he's a considerable douchebag.
haha I lol'd. I guess, having grown up around smug assholes my entire life, I consider that the norm.

>I enjoyed the satire and absurd humor of AP.
i can appreciate that. ithink that is what made AP such a cult classic.

>>4901049
>is Bateman REALLY that more disgusting than the people he associates with?
yes, yes he is. but, I think it spoke more of the consequences of the pressures on that social lifestyle
>Did he really do all of it?
i don't think that was ever a question. i think he did do it but, as for the paul allen thing, everyone is so oblivious to everything, being so self-absorbed, that he doesn't even know WHO he killed. who he thought as paul allen was actually someone playing along, for their own devious reasons. same way allen thinks bateman is marcus.

though, i agree, most are either completely oblivious due to their own self-absorbed nature, and others, though they don't exactly know it is Bateman, choose to ignore the horrors because it is unpleasant.

not symbolic, i think it is pretty blatant.

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i agree with these anons; that short summary gave me them feels, anon. i need a copy of this short story. if not, I will reference this in my novel (ill have a character say it was a movie he once saw, directed by Sir Jimmy Rustles)

this is good and should live on

>>4901000
*rank

>>4901002
what did you like of American Psycho? I simply like the mind fuck of it all. Entire chapters on Whitney Houston, Genesis, Huey Lewis; i think it shows perfectly how people mindlessly obsess over bullshit despite actual shit going on.
>i'd articulate myself better but I am drunk.
>everclear (straight) with shots of fresh squeezed lemon juice for a chaser

>>4900985
it's written better, for sure, but I'd still prefer to reread AP over LTZ

Also, I disagree about him being a dickhead. He's no more a self-righteous asshole than anyone else in that scene.

I've never been to new york but Los Angeles would rank up there in pretention
>90024 here, so I am familiar with the privileged art scene

may i ask where you ran in 'social class'?

>>4900601
Just my opinion, I do not think any B.E. Ellis is worth reading.
>inb4 you just can't relate to the yuppie lifestyle
I think the only people that like him are middle class kids wanting to live in a privileged wasteland.

as for Glamorama, haven't read it. I've only read Less than Zero, American Psycho, and Lunar Park... I would've mentioned Rules of Attraction but I never finished it.

>>4900939
not entirely correct.

the early christians (initiatesof the original christian mysteries) wrote a fuck-ton of gospels and books but it Constantine is responsible for the combination of books known to us as the New Testament.

>>4900933
i am the greatest woman to have ever lived.

>inb4 i am a man solely because i was born male and identify as such.
>check you privilege

>>4894993
I wrote a short story once where 'Jesus' was a title conferred on prophetic teachers rather than one specific person.
>I was then expelled from that Jesuit prep

>>4894621
I wouldn't say they are interrelated short stories a la crash but thanks, it's my baby, I've ghost written several novels and autobiographies so having my own work almost completed really gets me hard
>>4893776
Wow, what a constructive post, this will surely help,

part of my shit

>>4893526
fuck yeah, i'd read

>if /pol/ wrote a novel

here's mine;one novel, all these stories are intertwined, don't worry about how (that's the original part)

>14yo runaway, street punk girl, turned hooker befriends a wealthy libertine (also,street punktype situations occur)
>cop gets fired after trayvon martin type incident; gets hired by private military company (blackwater type shit)
>wealthy libertine (the one in a platonic relationship with minor hooker) allows his depravity to ruin himself
>international fraternal organization, comprised of the world's richest and brightest, of which our libertine is a member, orchestrates occupy type protests to force martial law

George r r martin
>Rob Reiner

>>4888958
firstly, i never said all people are productive though not all people are; i'll say it now. however, who is anyone of us to determine whether they are worthy of life? that is the philosophic trend whereto you've attempted to curtail this conversation.

what i said was that, if you needlessly want to kill someone, you are a sociopath.
>so what sops you then? (sic)
that is what is stopping me, and other non-sociopaths. our inability to relate to edgy sociopaths. does that answer your question?

>>4888934
did you not read the part where i wrote that i made a mistake? you really are autistic, only reading excerpts that benefit your argument

>production does not equal being productive!

now, other than satisfying your own sociopathic tendencies, what benefits would killing an assumed productive member of society?

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>>4888927
me, personally, i do not care about individuals but rather society as a whole. but, i too agree with you guys.

>>4888909
if it is no longer being used how would that be productive?

you are playing off of a mistake i made, implying that production=being productive, without actually defending your initial point.