The literary murder mystery is a weird mix. The two genres slightly differ from each other, and usually don’t come together. Murder mysteries are seen as fundamentally uncultured, off-the-rack, populist and hard to put down. On the other hand, literary novels win a lot of prizes, but are only actually read by people judging prizes (who are paid to read them), reviewers (also paid to read them) and the parents of the author. Mostly, when intellectual meets murder mystery, the intellect stays pure but the mystery is so bad that just by reading the back the mystery can be solved in a matter of minutes. African Psycho has pretty weak plot twist. The murderer is discovered on the last page to be a character we have only heard about in passing, and never met. This ending is just huge let down and is very irritating. I like the mixture of the literary and the murder mystery but…I don’t know, something always seems to be missing. It is definitely funny, in a dark sort of way. It is entertaining don’t get me wrong. I just wish it was more suspenseful and that more was left for you to find out. It was very open and right to the point. Though I am assuming it was on purpose, it is showing the way the “protagonist” thinks. The thing I didn’t like the most was that this book had only a murder plot line not a murder “mystery” plot line. Over all this was an alright book the underlining views of politics and society definitely made me laugh.

African Psycho is definitely a moral tale, and broken down, one can easily see this as so. Yes I agree that, Grégoire does some completely terrible things, but the most gruesome, which is when he attacks the older boy when he is only eleven, is more or less acceptable. The other acts that he performs aren't nearly as awful as he had planned. And, in the end, even if he doesn’t want to see the good and the pure, he is pretty much set on the straight and narrow. He has a ‘steady job’, an education and is doing pretty well for himself. This just proves that no matter how much bad is in someone they always have some good in them as well. This can also be considered into politics and society. People may say that society is completely evil well I disagree. I believe that sure society sucks, I don’t agree with most of it, but there are moments that show me there is still some good left in people. Like fundraisers for a worthy cause, charity, and so on and so forth. If there wasn’t some good in everything then society wouldn’t have a silver lining like the things I just listed. In my eyes politics are plain out stupid. I think that mankind needs to find something more important to fill their time then politics. Yet there is some good in politics. I agree that without politics there would be more struggle and conflict. That is just one of the many things I hate about mankind. This book shows off my hatred.