Thucydides
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I have about a week of being able to read for pleasure. Any recommendations? I’m a medium- to slow-speed reader.
A bit of everything. Horror, fantasy, mystery, thriller, true crime are my go-tos. I’ll read sci-fi here and there. I’ll read literary fiction as long as it isn’t too self-indulgent. I’m not too picky.What genre do you like?
A bit of everything. Horror, fantasy, mystery, thriller, true crime are my go-tos. I’ll read sci-fi here and there. I’ll read literary fiction as long as it isn’t too self-indulgent. I’m not too picky.
I don’t disagree at all, to be honest. It’s just that I don’t enjoy reading literature that’s super self-indulgent. I’m all for people writing in a self-indulgent manner, but I’ve read a lot of books that are like that in the past that I didn’t connect with personally.Nothing against you at all, but I've always disliked it when people say that art shouldn't be self-indulgent. I think it always should be. Art is the one thing where people should indulge themselves to the fullest extent and be uncompromising about what they do and how they do it, especially with literature, where the process is often solitary. It shouldn't pander and have an audience. in mind while being made. Now, if it's up its own ass, that's a different story, but I encourage self-indulgence.
A bit of everything. Horror, fantasy, mystery, thriller, true crime are my go-tos. I’ll read sci-fi here and there. I’ll read literary fiction as long as it isn’t too self-indulgent. I’m not too picky.
Filth by Irvine Welsh is the closest I can think of right now. It's has a psychopathic unreliable narrator whose sanity declines during the book. It's a dark comedy too and has a similar amount of sexual violence.Can anyone recommend a novel similar to American Psycho?
Filth by Irvine Welsh is the closest I can think of right now. It's has a psychopathic unreliable narrator whose sanity declines during the book. It's a dark comedy too and has a similar amount of sexual violence.
However Filth's setting is very different and it's language is too. Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney is very close to American Psycho in terms of language and setting. The protagonist definitely lives in the same Manhattan as Patrick Bateman.
Have you read Marabou Stork Nightmares? Even more than Filth that was a book with too much going on. Pretty close to American Psycho in the same way Filth is too.