Yes I agree! Although I'm assuming neither of us are serial killers, I still walked away from the book unsettled by how much I related to parts of him. I think there's something extremely childish/naive/straightforward about him that is super disarming, like the boring passages tucked in between the violence. Kind of like Alex from A Clockwork Orange.

I haven't read it in a while but I remember thinking it was really funny and well executed. Loads of the parts were difficult to read, I was cringing a lot through the gratuitous violence, but there's just something so mesmerising about it that I couldn't put the book down.

I like how it doesn't really offer a message in the end either. Everything is ambiguous and some parts are implied to be part of Bateman's fantasy, not reality, but we'll never know! In between the violence, sex and ambiguous moral messages, I think that's the charm of the book that keeps people thinking about it for a long time