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After finishing “The Master and Margarita”, I started reading earlier this week “The Remains of the Day” by Kazuo Ishiguro. I wanted to start with Ishiguro a few months ago and I was kind of undecided between this and “Never Let Me Go”, which I nominated for the next bookclub.
I'm currently on page 70 and so far I'm enjoying it. The main character is an old Butler who's kind of of a sperg. His new american boss gives him a few days off and he goes on a roadtrip through the English countryside to visit the old Housekeeper who left the Manor 20 years before while revisiting his memories from the time she worked there.
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I finished reading American psycho and darn that was not very enjoyable.
30% depictions of food, 30% depictions of gruesome death, 30% narrator being unreliable, 10% Hip to be square
also the version I read had an author interview and apparently the author sees himself in Patrick the most out of all his characters
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He's also gay (the author)
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hey I'm reading American Pyscho. I posted about it last thread
I actually like the food stuff cuz im a vain as heck ex-citystrag who cooks as a hobby because my gf sucks at it.
I realized he lists the clothes people are wearing as some neurodivergent head-clearing thing so he doesnt get murderous. It gets more obvious later in the book it's a crutch he uses. The interesting thing is how the other guys tease him about his knowledge of it and he found the super neurodivergent-Evelyn who also obsessed about peoples clothes.
Also the rampant hobo-hatred is based
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I think it also speaks to Patrick's inability to connect with people on any level but status. He only cares about what people are wearing and where they're eating, and it brings in great trouble when he feels his status is lower than the others around him. In the book when he is most frantic, it is usually when(or starts when) he feels someone else is doing better than him.
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yeah in the book he's way more insecure, it's like Fight Club, movies have a way of glamorizing pathetic male characters and turning them into more secure/attractive people
I'm about 70% in, haven't finished it. But my favourite part is when he's at the Christmas party and he is losing it, he can't fake pretending he actually likes the Yuppie lifestyle that Evelyn has perfected at the party (with elves and phony guests and shit). So rather than admit he's uncomfortable and change the people he's around and leave, he manipulates her and to go to the nightclub, and tries to frick with Owen by stealing his limo.
He's too cowardly to quit/change, so his whole 'rebellion' has to happen in the context of his work (killing Owen, fricking with Evelyn etc).
The scene doing coke in the bathroom where the guy actually has the balls to just tells his GF to frick off vs Patrick just going along with it. Then the young hot girl at the bar calls him a yuppie cute twink because he opens with some pathetic "Do you work at some [wall st firm]?" and she calls him out. Then he does the pathetic black dude impression and embarrasses himself.
Patrick basically desperately needs to surround himself with phonies because it's the only way he 'passes'.
Edit: even his drug addict brother exposes him for being a 'dinosaur' and not knowing the 'cool' clubs
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Posts like this is why I do Heroine.
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