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Hey /lit/, I absolutely love the book Fight Club. I read it before the movie and think they could've done better with the movie. I was wondering if you people on /lit/ could suggest me books like Fight Club or similar to this book.

>> No.1356867

Harry Potter, you might be too old for it though because it's not for 15 year olds.

>> No.1356879

Are you kidding? I enjoyed the book, but the movie outdid it in every way.

>> No.1356932

I like the movie Marla better than the Marla in the book, she seems like an airhead in the book.

>> No.1356942
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1356942

fight club is escapist trash every bit as much as the lord of the rings...that is all

>> No.1356952

>>1356942
ohwow.jpg

what a failure at life you must be

>> No.1356955

>>1356942

I like The Lord of the Rings...

>> No.1356960

>>1356952
sorry that adolescent ideals of violence mixed with over-simplified nihilism doesn't get me all hot and bothered, go back to reading hp lovecraft and warhammer 40k

>> No.1356976

>>1356960
>adolescent ideals of violence mixed with over-simplified nihilism doesn't get me all hot and bothered

so then, it's not for everyone, no, but to call it "escapist trash" kind of makes you a giant faggot. maybe it spoke to those of us who enjoy a bit of violence, or had to over-come violence in one way or another. and disrespecting Tolkien is really just ridiculous. what's wrong? you don't like creativity? warhammer 40k? i don't fucking think so. lovecraft? sure, in 6th grade. what the fuck do you read?

>> No.1356980

>>1356960
what's wrong with satirizing nihilism?

>> No.1356997

>>1356976
you read it and wish you were like tyler durden who represents everything masculine that you will never achieve (abs, toughness, success with women, etc.)

>> No.1357000

Now, the world don't move to the beat of just one drum,
What might be right for you, may not be right for some.
A man is born, he's a man of means.
Then along come two, they got nothing but their jeans.

But they got, Diff'rent Strokes.
It takes, Diff'rent Strokes.
It takes, Diff'rent Strokes to move the world.

Everybody's got a special kind of story
Everybody finds a way to shine,
It don't matter that you got not alot
So what,
They'll have theirs, and you'll have yours, and I'll have mine.
And together we'll be fine....

Because it takes, Diff'rent Strokes to move the world.
Yes it does.
It takes, Diff'rent Strokes to move the world.

>> No.1357007

You've probably read Choke and Survivor.

Obvious one is Great Gatsby. Other than that, Poppy Z Brite deals with lurid subjects in an interesting way, and JP Donleavey deals with similar characters and emotions.

>> No.1357014

>>1357007
i doubt GG will appeal to OP...

>> No.1357019

>>1356997
>implying I don't have those things already
well, maybe not the abs, but everything else. i didn't wish i was tyler durden. im actually quite happy with who i am. sorry if can read a book, put it down, and get on with my life. must be neat living in a fucking fantasy world every day...

>> No.1357021

>>1356997
Why would anyone want that? Tyler's a total cunt, who will inevitably be crushed by society when he gets too big for his boots. The only good character is the main character at the end of the book, and he isn't someone you'd want to be

>> No.1357023

>>1357014
GG and Fight Club are more or less the same story.

>> No.1357032

>>1357023
how so?

besides that, though, the style is.....rather different. writing and tone...fight club was kinda lurid and gritty, gatsby has this superficial shien on it...

>> No.1357034

>>1357019
>must be neat living in a fucking fantasy world every day
sorry but as i've stated already, i'm not into escapism

>> No.1357037

>>1357034
so then you must read technical manuals. i see. done.

http://www.electricretard.com/buried-treasure/

>> No.1357043

>>1357037
>http://www.electricretard.com/buried-treasure/
no one here is interested in your sexual fantasies, take it back to /b/ shitbird

>> No.1357048

>>1357032
Gatsby is the maverick who goes against the grain, and tries to beat and change society, like Tyler.

Nick begins as someone who tries to deny who he is, in order to conform to society. He is slowly killing himself (like Jack at the start of FC), and is falling into a life he is increasingly unhappy with. He then, through Gatsby's intervention, sees how following your own drum and disregarding society's expectations can have it's benefits, but trying to change it has its inevitable downfall. So in the end, both Nick and Jack become a kind of watcher; they follow their own drum and observe society from the periphery, without trying to change it. And that is how they survive.

That and class systems in America.

>> No.1357054

why is it that whenever a person asks for a book recommendation it ends up in a debate over whether the book is good or not?

>> No.1357059

http://chuckpalahniuk.net/forum/1000029/authors-like-chuck

>> No.1357065

>>1357048
hm. never thought about that before. interesting, thanks for the thought.

>> No.1357250

Charles Bukowski's "Hot Water Music".. in a sense of if you want to read a bunch of short stories about people who are so fucked in the head that it makes you think of raping a cow in the middle of a high rise bridge with two trains carrying carts full of orphan children on course to collide with on another.... otherwise I'm saying hot water music is a mind fuck book. read it. love it.

>> No.1357787

if you like chuck, check out Rant

http://www.amazon.com/Rant-Oral-Biography-Buster-Casey/dp/0385517874

I dug it

>> No.1357806

This is my main issue with the philosophy (or at least Durden's philosophy) in Fight Club.

How is pointless violence and action supposed to define a generation? It is true we have no great war or depression but the acts that previous generations did was in response to these events. Punching each other a lot just to say 'we still have masculinity' seems silly to me when real 'masculinity' and 'purpose' comes out of a genuine reason for acting.

>> No.1357834

/lit/ will kill me for this, but I actually dug the movie more than the book. It's the only book-adapted-into-a-movie combo that I feel that way about.

>> No.1357994
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1357994

Why do you spend money on books when you can simply use the public library?

>> No.1358027

>>1357054
This is /lit/. No one can ask for recommendations without fifteen anons coming in and calling OP's taste garbage.

For a board that's so high brow, I find it surprising that there's so much rage around a book that shouldn't be taken at face value.

>> No.1358058

>>1357994
Why borrow books when they're cheap enough to buy, and you can reread them as much as you like.

>> No.1358078

>>1358027
>/lit/
>high brow

I wish.

>> No.1358081

>>1358078
Meant to be tongue-in-cheek of course, but I forgot the sarcastic quotes around "high brow."