What I do know is that we in the not-so-united-state of America, bent on hating each other, need him and all the insights and satire and tweeking that he can bring to the table.Director David Fincher’s acclaimed 1999 movie adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s controversial novel Fight Club is well known for its shocking twist, which changes the way you view the movie (and makes it incredibly tempting to watch it a second time as soon as the end credits roll). the man has painted pictures and these pictures roam and rustle and reek in our hippocampus. That office desk coming out of that building, high up, the drawers.

The writing! He doesn't, Chuck doesn't miss a beat. but,the book, this book is something else. I don't remember - they were punching each other out. I saw the movie, though I don't remember it well. Inside the workings of this book is one great mind! One great mind that can see the American morass, the desert of us all/no dessert, got to lose 20 lbs. Touches base upon all our fears big and little the ones we niggle with the ones we would eanie meanie but can't. the people, the 'all of us' in the story, but/and, bring the boomerang around - Sartre noted how Genet did it in The Thief's Journal - it is/what it really is is about us. in rollers, up to here in self-help just like us all/therapy/therapies up the wazoo. The ones stricken with the caricaturing probably wouldn't/didn't even know it was about them.įight Club is about them - the caricature'd.

Dean Swift was so goddam mad at the ignorance cajoling all around that he aimed to give it to 'em good with his Gulliver's. He got it, he hit it,he squeezes the nipples of it, he tweeks the flag, he flaunts everything that the grey hairs at Del Webb's Sun City (where children and pets are not allowed) would abhor. Is a fully-wrought, meticulously played out and played-through tour de force of satire. The Fight Club is a piece of work that won't stay in the woodwork. There, this writer named Chuck Pahalniuk, well, it's from there he is from. Well, if at the point of Pasco-Kennewick and so on you had hung a left and gone not that far but, anyhow, mobile home'd light years away/back, you would have come upon a hole in the desert called, yes, of course, Burbank.

Especially if you know the beauty of the 'tropical in comparison' Portland where spring is so gorgeous with the early blooming flowers and flower-ladened trees! The geography is important and in the case of that neck of the woods, dry,arid, sagebrush-like, inhospitable, the importance rasps and grates. that you have just caught up with, there, and you set your sites downriver, toward Portland, Oregon. and you make a right and continue along the Columbia River, the mighty gem of the ocean!. There is a point - a time - when you are travelling south out of Spokane and you come to the tri-cities, Kennewick, Pasco and so on.

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk