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u/KenshiroTheKid · 8 pointsr/bookclapreviewclap

I made a list based on where you can purchase them if you want to edit it onto your post:

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u/down_vote_city__ · 3 pointsr/humor

American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis

u/wayword · 3 pointsr/books

Pretty much anything by Chuck Palahniuk.

  • Haunted is probably the most flabbergasting, but it's so off the wall and unrelentless that after awhile you'll probably become numb to it.
  • Survivor involves an interesting look at fictional cult behavior. As a bonus, it's also full of everyday household cleaning tips ("Remove protein stains (esp. semen) from clothing with cold salt water then wash as usual.", "Clean up small shards of broken glass using a piece of bread.", etc.)
  • Diary is about art school, conspiracy, and material excess. Not the most disturbing of his novels unless a critique on suburbanism would scare you (it did me).
  • Fight Club, I assume, requires no explanation. It's worth reading if you've seen the movie.
  • Choke is another that's been adapted to the screen, so probably doesn't need an explanation. But for the record, I found it more amusing than disturbing.

    edit: Also, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. And The Road by Cormac McCarthy, but only for one scene around the middle... anyone who's read it knows what I mean. Other than that, I found it to be a very emotion-provoking novel, but not "disturbing" in the sense that I think you mean.
u/Mithalanis · 2 pointsr/writing

Some movies are based off of books

u/[deleted] · 2 pointsr/malefashionadvice

American Psycho by Bret Easton Willis. It can be placed in a lot of genre's but I think it is a mix between satire and horror.





>American Psycho is a novel by Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1991. The story is told in the first person by Patrick Bateman, a serial killer and Manhattan businessman. The book's graphic violence and sexual content generated a great deal of controversy before and after publication.






I think MFA could really get behind this book. It explores how being consumed in a consumerist world can be detrimental to your mental health. I enjoyed it, although the book goes into details and is very graphic. The movie is also a great alternative

u/davincisbeard · 2 pointsr/videos

He wasn't. Source. Sorry to spoil it for you.

u/evanesce_X · 2 pointsr/books

I haven't read any of these, but I'm fairly certain they would interest you:

American Psycho
Lucky
The Lovely Bones

The first one I am sure would be what you're looking for, the other two maybe not so much--not to mention I think they focus more on the emotion and psychological aspects--but they came to mind.

u/HereticLocke · 2 pointsr/books
  1. American Psycho- by Bret Easton Ellis
    2.10/10
  2. Humor, Action, Psychology, Satire "Horror".
  3. Deeply interesting and humorous in all of most parts, it was like my Bible for the days that I read it.
  4. Amazon
u/Danthegoon · 2 pointsr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

I'd say American Psycho This book is absolutely amazing, and one of the best I've read. I've always been intrigued by the human mind. What makes people the way they are, and do the things the do. Love the true crime genre, etc etc. I think that Bret Easton Ellis did an amazing job of putting you in the mind of one of the most depraved, narcissistic, terrible (yet somehow almost likeable) fictional characters you could imagine. All I can say is, if you want to read something much different, then read this. (if you haven't already). Also, it's VERY graphic, so be warned. :)

u/kkjdroid · 1 pointr/atheism

http://www.amzn.com/0679735771

u/awesomebro · 1 pointr/AskReddit
u/jr_0t · 1 pointr/homelab

Technology related would for sure be The Cuckoo's Egg, and Ghost in the Wires


Not tech related, Junky, American Psycho, and Kitchen Confidential

u/fortissimoto · 1 pointr/booksuggestions

I'd suggest any Bret Easton Ellis books, especially American Psycho. I would describe it exactly as a psychological thriller. And if you haven't read them, the Kingkiller Chronicles is a fantastic fantasy trilogy. The first book is The Name of the Wind

u/firstroundko108 · 1 pointr/booksuggestions

I must also suggest [American Psycho](
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0679735771/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awd_js1Dwb3Z7VTMD), as the protagonist is paranoid that everyone is trying to outclass him at all times. He's obsessive and conceited about his appearance and manners in social situations. Even the classier font choice of a business associate's business card drives him to insanity.

Amazon description: "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."

https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/3xkr9p/suggest_me_a_grimdark_genre_book/cy63goo

u/FokJulleNaaiers · 1 pointr/Rammstein

https://www.amazon.com/American-Psycho-Bret-Easton-Ellis/dp/0679735771/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1501875923&sr=8-1&keywords=american+psycho+book

u/r_antrobus · 1 pointr/randomactsofamazon

A copy of American Psycho

I've been loaning it from the library for quite a while and I want my own copy. It's a pretty creepy book....I guess.

u/neetster · 1 pointr/AskReddit

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis.

u/dmiff · 1 pointr/science

or read it...

u/BoilerMaker11 · 0 pointsr/Games

> "Hey, Harry Potter/A Game of Thrones/Northern Lights/American Psycho were written 20+ years ago! I shouldn't have to pay 11.99 for copies! They should be 3.99 at most they're so old! Only new stuff should be expensive!"

Ummm....yes, actually. Would you pay $10,000 for a 1992 Ford Taurus, even if it still "runs well"? Would you pay $25 a The Dark Knight Blu-ray, even though it was one of the best movies of the 2000s and, arguably, the best movie of 2008? Would you pay $40 for A Link to the Past, a game considered the greatest of all time? No, you wouldn't. Despite those items still holding up and being great, you would not pay that expensive price for them, precisely because they were old.

There's such a thing as depreciation, and the market determines that (go to any used game store and CoD4 will be $5-7, whereas a black label copy of, say, Marvel vs Capcom 2 will be like $50, due to rarity). They're keeping the price artificially high to make it seem like a "premium" product that's still "in demand". If that were truly the case and people were still gobbling this game up (I'm not saying the community isn't still there, I'm talking about new consumers. That's what 'demand' addresses), they would continuously be bragging about the sales and that would justify its price point. You wanna know why GTAV is still $60? Because millions of people are still buying the game, to this day, and some milestone achievement is announced every 6 months or so. That obviously isn't true for CoD4, despite how good the game is.

Oh, and btw, I really don't know what point you were trying to make mentioning any of those books, considering:

Harry Potter

A Game of Thrones

Northern Lights

American Psycho (This one appears to hold up, but apparently it's a rare book)

I intentionally sorted by new, because if I picked used, the price would literally be a penny for 3 of those books, and $0.74 for the last.






u/young_mike · 0 pointsr/bookexchange

would trade American Psycho, this edition for Hot Water Music if you are interested