{"id":480,"date":"2012-11-28T13:28:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T00:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/?p=480"},"modified":"2012-11-28T13:28:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T00:28:22","slug":"fight-club-chuck-palahniuk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2012\/11\/28\/fight-club-chuck-palahniuk\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight Club &#8212; Chuck Palahniuk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0393327345\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0393327345&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=thunderguycom-20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/fight-club.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Fight Club\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/fight-club.jpg 375w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/fight-club-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thunderguycom-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0393327345\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>The characters in <cite>Fight Club<\/cite> have a cruel self-destructiveness that I would hate to encounter in real life, but seems strangely appealing on the page. It&#8217;s the only way they can exert control over their lives, and it grows into Fight Club and spirals out of control in quite a satisfying way.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t excited by this book when it first appeared, even when the movie version duly arrived. But I loved the Dust Brothers&#8217; single &#8220;This is Your Life&#8221;, which consisted of a collection of rants by the character Tyler Durden with electronic accompaniment. I loved the result, which sounds like some twisted motivational speech or a dystopian self-help tape. (&#8220;This is your life, and it&#8217;s ending one minute at a time.&#8221; &#8220;You are <em>not<\/em> a beautiful and unique snowflake!&#8221; etc.) I made a mental note to read the book. And now, barely 12 years later, I finally have. It&#8217;s not for the squeamish though &#8212; the descriptions of the fights are graphic enough to discourage me from watching the film version. I think I&#8217;ll listen to the Dust Brothers again.<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The characters in Fight Club have a cruel self-destructiveness that I would hate to encounter in real life, but seems strangely appealing on the page. It&#8217;s the only way they can exert control over their lives, and it grows into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2012\/11\/28\/fight-club-chuck-palahniuk\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,51],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-books","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}