I absolutely get what the author was trying to do, and he did it.  This book was deliberate; the choices the author made were deliberate.  The shock, the brutality juxtaposition with the repetitive and boring shallowness of Bateman's life is evident from page one.   I also get that the racism, sexism and violence in the book are the characteristic of Bateman and his friends and not the author.  Overall this book vividly depicts the shallowness, greed and boredom of the Wallstreet upper classes.  It shows the vanity, lack of morals and selfishness of some of these types.  But it also vividly depicts its crazed spiral into evil and depravity of Bateman.  But I can't help but agree with the author's words in the books afterwards "People finally read the book, and they found out that it wasn't four hundred pages of torture and mutilation and advocating for the death of women.  It's just some boring novel."  It is quite dull.  The content, the tone, the dialogue even the pace of the book is all deliberate to give you an understanding of Batemen, but ultimately between small sections of uncomfortableness due to the very vivid depictions of violence, I was bored.  This provided no subtlety, no nuance, no deeper meaning or commentary on anything other than the characters on the page, and this is deliberate. I just didn't enjoy it, while appreciating from a literary pov it did everything it tried to do well.