American Psycho... too gruesome and I was trying to finish it this morning, but it nearly made me throw my breakfast up!

If you don't like it then you don't read it. What's the big deal for that? You are too overreacted.

Hence, if you don't like it after reading it, you will never read it again.

when I read the topic title, I thought "American Psycho" before I even read your post! The book disgusted me so much, I stopped reading it and tore the paperback in half and threw it in the trash.... Hows that for overreacting!

I never finished American Psycho either. Was on vacation and borrowing it while living at a friend's house, and glad to move on to the next country!

i've actually read it twice and think it is an outstanding book. it is very graphic though...

unfortunately, no matter how much i despise a book, i always have to finish it. that said, i won't read certain authors because they rely on formulas too much and nothing seems to change but the character names, locales and plot details. also avoid the majority of crime books like the plague.

never read american psycho... may have to see what makes it so horrible!

AP is a great book. Is it wrong that I found it hilarious at parts?

'Today has been a bad day, I started sobbing uncontrollably during an episode of Alf...'

I have the same problem. Once I start a book, I have to finish it.

Everyone at my old workplace was talking about American Psycho at one point in time and how fantastic it was albeit its gruesomeness. So, I had to check it for myself and I really wish I hadn't.

I think with so much drugs and the craziness of the world, all the gruesomeness is in his head and not really real?

beautiful_mind0905 wrote:I think with so much drugs and the craziness of the world, all the gruesomeness is in his head and not really real?

there you go

I also enjoyed AP. The pages and pages about his bathroom ablutions were a bit hard to work through mind you.

ooh.. I'm with Mags, now i really want to read it! anyone in shanghai got an old copy?

100 years of solitude by Gabriel García Márquez was a killer for me, I just stopped caring about the characters... disappointing to say considering its meant to be a classic... I'm sure ill try it again some time.

Books I'll never read again:
how to suceed in corporate America without really trying - Commando
10 ways to serve oatmeal with vodka at 6am - GC
Shanghai Psycho - you-know-who
10 best Mongolian wines served with Yak - he who can't be named
Memoirs from Maoming Lu - Magnolia
How New York invented China - SnappySammy
The girl with something extra - Frenchlover
The history of the world - coffeehawk_0
International diplomacy - hc
10 ways to make new friends - underh20
Stable relationships made easy - yingying
5 illegal things to try in Hong Kong - mrpango

hahaha great stuff coffee hahahahahahahahaha

CoffeeHawk_0 wrote:Books I'll never read again:
how to suceed in corporate America without really trying - Commando
10 ways to serve oatmeal with vodka at 6am - GC
Shanghai Psycho - you-know-who
10 best Mongolian wines served with Yak - he who can't be named
Memoirs from Maoming Lu - Magnolia
How New York invented China - SnappySammy
The girl with something extra - Frenchlover
The history of the world - coffeehawk_0
International diplomacy - hc
10 ways to make new friends - underh20
Stable relationships made easy - yingying
5 illegal things to try in Hong Kong - mrpango

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Add my Muhahahahaha to the list as well.

beautiful_mind0905 wrote:American Psycho... too gruesome and I was trying to finish it this morning, but it nearly made me throw my breakfast up!

I usually feel the need to finish a book once it's started as well. However, two books that I attempted, and gave up on, recently were "Moby Dick" and Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle".

Has anyone here read "The Jungle"?

I don't often re-read books so for me it would be which books have I regretted reading. I just finished The Historian and regret reading it. By the time I realized I was thoroughly bored with it, I felt like I was too far in to quit (it's a very long book).

I am about to start on Moby Dick... Will let you know how I go...

it's certainly not as violent as american psycho

I am also reading Tyrannicide Brief, which is fairly graphic in parts...

Come to think of it, I think that American Psycho was strangely prophetic about my life in Shanghai

CoffeeHawk_0 wrote:Books I'll never read again:
how to suceed in corporate America without really trying - Commando
10 ways to serve oatmeal with vodka at 6am - GC
Shanghai Psycho - you-know-who
10 best Mongolian wines served with Yak - he who can't be named
Memoirs from Maoming Lu - Magnolia
How New York invented China - SnappySammy
The girl with something extra - Frenchlover
The history of the world - coffeehawk_0
International diplomacy - hc
10 ways to make new friends - underh20
Stable relationships made easy - yingying
5 illegal things to try in Hong Kong - mrpango

AHHAhaa, only just saw this.

By the way, what is a book?

greenmark wrote:Come to think of it, I think that American Psycho was strangely prophetic about my life in Shanghai

Kasei, I read Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle' years ago and really, really enjoyed it. I agree that it might be a little difficult to get into at first, but I thought it was an insightful look at both the trials and tribulations of immigrants to the US as well as the meat processing industry (that still holds true to today).

I enjoyed American Psycho. It was gory indeed but so different than anything else.

Book I will never read again:
Shanghai Baby

International diplomacy - hc

I wanna read it also, I hope someone can lend this book to me~~~

Loved American Psycho, to bad they killed the movie.

indyshiu wrote:Kasei, I read Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle' years ago [snip] I thought it was an insightful look at both the trials and tribulations of immigrants to the US as well as the meat processing industry (that still holds true to today).

I agree. Very informative and he's a wonderfully visual writer. I just couldn't wade through the suffering.

CoffeeHawk_0 wrote:Books I'll never read again:
how to suceed in corporate America without really trying - Commando
10 ways to serve oatmeal with vodka at 6am - GC
Shanghai Psycho - you-know-who
10 best Mongolian wines served with Yak - he who can't be named
Memoirs from Maoming Lu - Magnolia
How New York invented China - SnappySammy
The girl with something extra - Frenchlover
The history of the world - coffeehawk_0
International diplomacy - hc
10 ways to make new friends - underh20
Stable relationships made easy - yingying
5 illegal things to try in Hong Kong - mrpango

This has to be the funniest thing posted in a long time!!!

I don't think any of those books are in Chinese. Its to hard for me to read in English