Yes, though it's been
years since I have. I don't recall anything other than I loved it. Several scenes stick out vividly, especially the abrupt cut from Bateman's threesome to his chasing one of the girls with a chainsaw. That quick cut caught me equally, if not more, off-guard in the book, too. Genius.
I'll have to see it again, if I can find it.
Annd...
Pyramids - Terry Pratchett
The beginning was a little plodding, and on the whole, the book isn't as great as his later works. Reading this directly after Small Gods was probably ill-advised; it should've been the other way around, so I could've seen how Pratchett vastly improved in his writing. Slightly similar concept (the belief system) and character (Dios was like a much tamer, more incompetent version of Vorbis). There were quite a few gems to be found throughout the book, however. Particularly awesome was the asterisked bit about hoarse whispers not being suitable for a desert environment; use camel whispers. All in all, I wouldn't count Pyramids among my top-ten Discworld books. 3/5.
Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk
My first Palaniuk book, and I'm hesitant to consider buying more of his books. I bought Haunted because I had come across Guts online and wanted to read more stories like it, of the much worse kind if possible. Disappointingly, none of the stories left me as faintly horrified as Guts did. The attempt at trying to connect all the twenty-odd short stories to one giant plot felt contrived. The book could've done without said attempt and just been its own collection of short stories. Other than that, some of the shorts were... interesting, to put it mildly, and imaginative; the others so-so; all of them forced in one way or another. I wasn't much impressed by Palahniuk's writing style; with Guts, it was awesome, but after fifty pages of it, it worn out its welcome. 2.5/5.
P.S. I read this at the same time as American Psycho. Bad idea, as it took me three or four months before I even thought to muster the energy to finish them both. It didn't help, either, that I kept starting in on new books in the process.
Now reading
Storm Front, the first book in the Dresden Files series. I've been wanting to get into this series for a while. Up to the second chapter and so far, the future has me blinded.
