And now... A book review! YAY!

I just got done reading a book, and as is usually the case with any book I read, I've been completely obsessed with it since I read the first sentence. Now that I'm done with it, it's all I can think about. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. Awesome. But it's not exactly the kind of book I can go out and tell everyone I know to read, because, well... it's a little messed up. Then (non)VegHusband read it first and would occasionally look up from it and say, "Are you sure you want to read this? It's pretty... graphic. And disgusting. And graphic." Which, of course, made me want to read it even more. Plus, I was the one who got it from http://www.swaptree.com/; I was just being nice and let him read it first. And I knew what the plot consisted of, because I had seen the movie a million years ago. Although having seen the movie didn't exactly prepare me for the book, especially since the only thing I remember from the movie is the scene with the business cards (HILARIOUS!) and him running after someone in his birthday suit wielding a chainsaw. I started reading it while I was visiting my gramma a couple weeks ago, and it just seemed wrong to be reading it in her house. I mean, she baked me cookies and everything.

The book was written in the late 1980's, and is so deliciously... 80's. I can't believe it was actually written in the decade it's set in, and that the author was about the same age as the main character. It seems almost like it would have had to have been written at least a decade after the time it's set, but it's also just dripping with the "Me, me, me"ness of the 80's that there is no way it could have been written at any other moment in time. And for Ellis to be savvy enough to be able to write about his generation in their prime with such objectiveness, but at the same time be equally subjective is just brilliant.

The (non)VegHusband thinks my choice of bookmark is hilarious, given the subject matter of this book, but it was nearby and small enough to work. It's a little pink crochet flower I made forever ago and still has the long ends attached which work perfectly as a bookmark. Now I'm thinking of making a ton of these little babies and listing them in my Etsy store. But I digress.
I really can't go much into the plot without giving too much away, but the movie was pretty popular, so I'm sure you know the jist of it: Wall Street, late 1980's, yuppies, selfishness, etc. Patrick Bateman is the self-absorbed pretty boy who kind of loses it. Or does he? This is really a fantastic book, and I think if it weren't so gory it would be a great novel to, ahem, disect (ha!) in a literature class of some kind. But I can just imagine the reactions of some students after reading one of the few chapters entitled, "Girls". I don't think that teacher would be looked upon too favorably. I don't know if I should worry or not, though, because it really didn't disturb me as much as it probably should have. The hubs seemed to think I would be putting the book down to have to run to the bathroom to toss my cookies, and that I would be losing sleep or dreaming of a psycopath with an ice pick. I wonder if he thinks I'm cooler because I can handle it, or if he's sitting across the room from me right now, staring at me, wondering what the hell is wrong with me and what my childhood was REALLY like. I'm not a lunatic. Really. I'm just... Whatever. There were 2 chapters, though, that did make me squirm, and one involved a rat. But I'm not going to tell you what happens. It's a real page-turner!

We were going to watch the movie last night, but we were a little tuckered out and just vegged out in front of Comedy Central instead. A re-run of one of my favorite shows (Important Things with Demetri Martin) was on, and my favorite Demetri Martin sketch EVER just happened to be on that episode. The rat chapter was still kind of bouncing around in my brain, so when this sketch came on, it seemed like the universe was somehow mocking me. In a super funny way. Good one, Universe!

Important Things with Demetri Martin
Power - Creedocide
http://www.comedycentral.com/
Joke of the Day Stand-Up Comedy Free Online Games

Don't you think Demetri Martin is just the cutest little genius EVER? Me, too. I love that Comedy Central is becoming the nerdy white boy network.