American Psycho
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- bauts1060
If you go back and read the book again, you'll notice that at the beginning...he's obsessively describing what each person he sees is wearing, right down to the color and designer and there's pretty much no gore until well into the story. However by the end, he is simply describing people as "wearing something brown" and the descriptions of gore are as detailed as the clothing descriptions at the beginning of the story. I think the book is about excess and obsession, and the extent to which it becomes real and takes over your life. There were no murders, they were part of his imagination. Especially considering the fact that he literally has a gun battle rife with explosions and death with the police and yet nothing happens to him and you never hear about it again, these were things he conjured up in his head.