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I, as well as my young and inexperienced piers, have fallen in love with fight club and its ideas. Any recommendations for an avid reader/wannabe writer?

>> No.1430191

everything else by palahniuk
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>> No.1430207
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Atlas Shrugged
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>> No.1430215

Into the Wild
On the Road
Dharma Bums

>> No.1430226

>piers

>> No.1430264

A Clockwork Orange

>> No.1430324
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1430324

yep thanks, Ayn Rand eh? will do.
and thank you >>1430226
and yes, all palahniuk's works are super-phun reads...

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1430357

Trainspotting (maybe)
Company
Jennifer Government
Apathy and Other Small Victories

>> No.1430362

>>1430182
No you haven't. You're on a fucking board, talking about books when you should be destroying modern civilization. Now shut the fuck up and come at me bro.

>> No.1430542
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1430542

You going to loan me a couple laboratories so me and like minded people that believe the world is fucked-any-way-you-look-at-it can create a wonderful little virus similar to what happens in BUSTER CASEY(rabies)
Society is full of rats anyways...
So I'm going to venture off into the mountains (with my collection of palahniuk novels) to avoid stressful trolls like you>>>>1430362

>> No.1430561

Great Gatsby.

>> No.1430564

>>1430362
>>1430362
you dumbfuck (project mayhem is just as fucked up as civilization - it is the antithesis where modern civilization is the thesis - it's a fucking dialectic b*tch)

>> No.1430578

ITT: OP doesn't realize the book (and film) is a diatribe against Durden's infantile politics.

>> No.1430594

>>1430578
You'd think that Durden failing and everything being real shitty later on would give a little clue.

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>>1430578
I don't follow... He hated his life. His couch that he would never have to replace. His condiments collection. His apartment just made him a # in a human ladder of #'s...

>> No.1430794

>>1430773

Ultimately he's just an unlikable cunt with issues. Who shoots himself in the fucking face.

>> No.1430798

quick question, if "John" didnt kill himself, then how did Durden die? wouldnt Durden still exist because "John" is still alive?

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>>1430773
He was bored, jaded, and confused because he did jack shit with his life. He went nutso with an alternate personality because of his own personal problems, then projected them onto society as if it were society's fault that he's a limp douche who never bothered to try and stand out in the first place. He just wants to be a kid again with an idealized version of childhood instead of the bullshit he went through with his parents described in the book. The rest is a satire of male machismo and a cynical representation of insane authority figures being seen as charismatic and the morons who follow them.
Most of Palahniuk's novels' protagonists and the shit they put themselves through can be summed up with pic related.

>> No.1430820

>>1430805
>cynical representation of insane authority figures being seen as charismatic and the morons who follow them.

More specifically the so-called "radical left" in the West, which obviously shares many features with the later incarnation of the fight club.

>> No.1430829

"Fight Club" is a lot like "The Matrix" in that they make really basic concepts of philosophy available to people who'd otherwise never read philosophy.

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>>1430805
but, doesn't he relate our modern middle class a bit?
Lots of kids who don't have fathers grow up to be these so called 'cunts' as anon>>1430794 refers to. Is this not true?

>> No.1431761

>>1430820
>radical left
>anarchy over bed-time
just putting tht out there...

>> No.1431767

>>1431758
I'd say he's a character that's easy to relate to because it's a common thing in middle class life. That's the long and short of it, to me.

>> No.1431773

night night night night night night night night night night night night dununununununun NIGHT

>> No.1431778

>>1431767
did you read alot of palanuihiuk back in the day Korobiev?

>> No.1431780

>>1431778
I sure did!

>> No.1431784

>>1431758
Sure, but Tyler Durden is an over the top product of that middle class alienation and over-reaction to the perceived loss of masculinity, which becomes more and more pervasive in the world or atleast the first world post ww2. But Fight Club is still a diatribe against the childish desires that result in producing/worshiping Tyler.

>> No.1431787

>>1430357
>Apathy
Holy crap I thought I was the only one who had read this.

>> No.1431790

>>1431784
when you think about it D&E kind of wants to be tyler durden

>> No.1431795

>>1431790
as a satire or genuinely?

>> No.1431799

>>1431795
genuinely

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>>1431790
apologies, but D & E?