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Finished Infinite Jest, then read 1Q84 - both of which I enjoyed immensely - and just got done with American Psycho. AP was probably the most disgusting book I've ever read, but the scenes are so over-the-top gross and disturbing that after a while you start to wonder if Ellis is just being intentionally parodic. He seems to suggest at the end that it's all just some kind of psychotic or drug-induced dreaming or daydreaming on the part of the killer, but then he undercuts *that* suggestion a little later with the cab driver episode. So overall you're left wondering, which contributes to lessening the impact of some of the gore, strangely enough. All three are highly interesting books, though, each in its own way.
Not sure what's next. Thought I was going to read Blind Woman, Sleeping Willow next, but after 1Q84 I'm not really into more Murakami just yet. I started Swann's Way, but it was a bit too quaint for me to get into it. I might read Fall of the House of Usher next, simply b/c I have it on my kindle and I've never read it. :P
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