...I felt dirty after I read this book, not (only) because of the graphic violence ..., but because I had to wade through stream-of-conciousness tripe to get to the interesting bits (the character's loss of self and general anonymity). It could have been a good book. But Bret Easton Ellis wrote it. If I had remembered that he is also the one who wrote "Less Than Zero", I never would have purchased or read it.This is one of the few times I have thought a movie to be better than the book it was based on. I was engrossed by the movie ... and its theme. I was angry at Ellis the whole time I read the book. I just had to finish [it]because I thought to myself "Surely, it will explore more thoroughly the theme if I continue, just a couple more pages..."I am as much of an idiot as Ellis. I read the last page twice because I thought I had missed something.