Aim itibaren Texas itibaren Texas

This was perfectly nice re-telling of Austen's Sense and Sensibility. Except. I felt like Schine was trying to "improve" on Austen with her changed ending, and no one should mess with Austen. I liked very much that the heroines are in their 50s and that the mom gets more attention, but I found it more painful that the dad hasn't died, just gone off with a younger woman--yuck.

I had to stop reading this for a month because of the content, but once I finished it the full breadth of Ellis's ambition came into focus. He reframes the concept of the antihero to include the book itself--you should despise every word you read, it's satire so scathing there's nowhere for the reader to claim a safe distance. This is an incredibly bold move by the author. He had to know he'd be alienating the majority of his readers; in this way, American Psycho reminds me of Lolita, with violence and commerce under the microscope instead of modernity's sexual mores.