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ChairmanUzamaoki OP t1_j66ftj9 wrote

Why would an author dedicate multiple chapters analyzing music if it meant nothing? It's not like it's a passing paragraph, there are several chapters.

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Machiniac t1_j66ml53 wrote

It means something of course. He likes music and is obsessed with surfaces. But it’s not that deep. Not being deep is the meaning.

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Rowyn_Raycross t1_j6744ts wrote

I thought it was to lull the reader into a spiral of boredom just before throwing you back into a super-mega-ultra-violent scene. It takes place in the MTV era as well as music magazines being pretty popular. Having an “intellectual” conversation about music in order to have one toe in mainstream pop culture seemed to fit the character for me. Bateman had obsessive compulsive behaviors which included hygiene, working out, music, and killing. The first three are pretty mundane, but the last one is so inhumane and absolutely intolerably extreme. It’s one book I’ve not wanted to read a second time. I haven’t seen the movie (except for a few scenes that end up on social media a lot) because I couldn’t see how a movie could possibly be made to be anything like the book yet still be watchable.

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ChairmanUzamaoki OP t1_j6880pr wrote

Ah thr boring beofre the storm is interesting, because you are correct in that these chapters, now that I reread, I pretty much skim. I used to look for something deeper, but never could find anything

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