FIGHT CLUB
Palahniuk, Chuck 1996 208 Pages New York: W. W. Norton & Co. “The insomnia distance of everything, you can’t touch anything and nothing can touch you.” -Joe "You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile. Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing." -Tyler Durden "Getting God's attention for being bad was better than getting no attention at all. Maybe because God's hate better than His indifference. If you could be either God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose? We are God's middle children, with no special place in history and no special attention. Unless we get God's attention, we have no hope of damnation or Redemption. Which is worse, hell or nothing?" -Tyler Durden “After you’ve been to fight club, watching football on television is watching pornography when you could be having great sex.” -Joe I had to admit that I need to skim DSM IV and some article about anarchy before writing this book review- although it does not affect any significant thing here. Fight Club was one of my most favorite movies. By years I figured out that remarkable movie was based on a novel. So I listed it in my to read list and after almost a decade I decided to read the pdf copy of that book. A white collar worker, Joe, was dragged into an anarchy project. The story was started by a detail description of two men on the top of a building. One was holding a gun, another terrified with a gun in his mouth. Two men; Taylor Durdan and the main character (joe?) was trapped in a triangle love. Well, it’s not a romance novel but there is one character named Marla Singer who gave a significant role in the plot even tho she was not taken a lot of scene. The main character got the insomnia, as the quote I cited above. He felt empty and hallow, he went to a therapist and the doctor said “if he wanted to see real pain, he should swing by First Eucharist on a Tuesday night. See the brain parasites. See the degenerative bone diseases. The organic brain dysfunctions. See the cancer patients getting by.” So, he went to those support groups of dying people with different fake names in different groups. After that, he could overcome his problem but then there come Marla Singer who always be there made the main character could not cry and focus on his ‘therapy’. Later on, he met Taylor Durdan randomly and on the plane they talk for the first time. Fight club was held under they creation: every night in a basement of a bar or in a garage, two men per fight, no shoes, no shirts, the fight goes on and on and on as long as it has to. Just like a virus it spreads over the states with the same rules. Moreover, Taylor Durden also created project Mayhem, a sequences of anarchy actions. The plot was pretty fast-because I got the spoiler from the movie. If you had watched the movie, indeed the novel is more comprehensive. This is a brilliant novel from Chuck Palahniuk to insinuating today's life. A monotone life cycle in urban society is a real phenomenon. The boredom leads to emptiness or depressive conditions and how self-harm or insinuating today's life with violence acts as the alternative antidote. After a self-harm, the frustrating phase start to steal public attention by conducting some anarchy actions. Bipolar might be a common term that can be used for Taylor Durdan. But according to some talks with some friends, bipolar with two different identity does not really exist. It was just a series of depression-manic-and hypo episodes; the extreme mood swing with a certain duration. The culture might affect the tendency of bipolar cases. In this novel, the fictionous character might give us a clear depiction of how the eroding cultural values in social construction could cause a serious chaos such as terrorism.
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