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I just bought this today, /lit/. Had to bum, like, five bucks off a couple of friends to make up for the stupid price at Barnes&Noble (okay, so it was the price above the barcode, but still...)

Am I gonna' be dissapointed? I saw the movie and loved it (mostly after the fact, like with A Clockwork Orange), but I'm not so sure.

I just want a heads up, if you please.

P.S.: It was actually this or The Great Gatsby. Did I do right?

>> No.1176461

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO.
GO BACK AND GET THE GREAT GATSBY.

>> No.1176476

anon is right, you should have bought The Great Gatsby.

>> No.1176479
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1176479

The movie is also much, much better than the book is.

also:

>buy shitty modern pop lit over classic american novel
>my face

>> No.1176510
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1176510

It's okay I guess... But it's no Gatsby.

>> No.1176516

All this hate makes my heart hurt.
Yes, I love Fight Club.
No, I'm not that kid in high school who you expect to blow up the school and kill everyone.

>> No.1176521

>>1176516
No, but you are still a kid in high school. No one over 16 should have any love for Fight Club except as a nostalgia piece.

>> No.1176524

>>1176521
I've never understood that reasoning. Is it just because of its "fuck the establishment" theme?

>> No.1176526

>>1176524
its twilight for boys

>> No.1176531

definitely should've bought the great gatsby

chuck palahniuk isn't a bad writer - just very gimmicky, and in my opinion fight club wasn't his best novel

but then again, read one of his books, read pretty much all of them

>> No.1176534

>>1176516
>No, I'm not that kid in high school who you expect to blow up the school and kill everyone.

No one expects that kid to blow up the school and kill everyone; they expect him to ge home every day and continue being a massive tool, then hopefully grow up after a few years of doing that.

>> No.1176538

>>1176510
Would any kind anon remind me the name of the person who does those comics? I always forget it.

On topic, I can guess you're not THAT much into literature, so I guess Fight Club could do fine, but don't expect anything particularly impressive.

>> No.1176540

Read whatever the fuck you like and don't listen to faggots you tell you shit, like in this thread!?

>> No.1176541

>>1176534
Say whaaa? Reading a book makes someone a tool?

>> No.1176542

You should have bought The Great Gatsby instead.

>> No.1176546

i'd go with Lullaby if you want a Chuck Palahniuk book.
magic is more fun than schizophrenia.

>> No.1176547

>>1176526
You're going to have to be more specific. Twilight has no purpose other than a fapfic, while Fight Club presents social commentary on the casual hedonism of the 90's (and today) by taking a step back and seeing how silly it all is( "What furniture best describes 'me'?"), as well as presents some existential ideas to a demographic that normally wouldn't be exposed to it (the scene with the gas station attendant).

Unless I'm missing something?

>> No.1176550

>>1176547
It is, but people only focus on the meat-head fighting aspect of it.

>> No.1176557

>>1176550
then the problem lies with the readers, not the book itself. can't let a retarded fanbase spoil something for you.

though I'll be damned if fighting isn't fun as fuck.

>> No.1176571

>>1176557
The fanbase obviously over looks Palahniuk's main points for the whole book. I still love it, and I hate fighting (as in me fighting other people. I'm almost always crippled with some sort of sickness.)

>> No.1176578

>>1176538
It's Kate Beaton