We get that point after - say - five pages, so why 50? Is it because people get off on this stuff? If so, that's mysogynistic. It's kinda cool! It's funny! But is it funny? Is it necessary for the novel? Wouldn't ten pages have done? After all, we get Ellis's point about the emptiness of acquisitive greed and the interchangeability of the people in Bateman's life and maybe it's all hallucinations anyway. Why so much? Why are all the very detailed scenes of ultraviolence in American Psycho reserved for women and themen (and animal) are dispatched in a paragraph? The thing is, I get the idea that people who write and and read 50 pages of fantastically revolting violence against women are doing so because they actually quite enjoy it. So : I would have to ask about the motivation of anyone who wants to a) write and b) read 50 pages of the untraviolence in American Psycho. The reader might say after five or ten pages of this stuff "Okay, we get the point already! Enough!" But then, suppose I continue with 50 more pages of detailed child rape and torture. It's nasty stuff but it has to go in, that's the nature of the story. Suppose then I include two or three scenes of uncensored description of sexual torture and killing of children. My main character is loathsome and is shown to be loathsome. If - say - I was going to write a novel about a paedophile.
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