Thursday, October 1, 2009

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk (pgs 95-end)

Fight Club was a great book. I liked the ending a lot. Towards the end of the book, the narrator finds out that Tyler Durden is not real friend of his but in fact more like an imaginary friend. Tyler Durden is in fact a separate personality of the narrator. This other personality, Tyler has created something separate from fight club, something called Project Mayhem. This project is designed to destroy cooperate America, and in this project, Tyler and his followers have planted bombs in the tallest building of the city. When the narrator realizes that his alternate personality has done this, he tries to stop it from happening. This is when the movie and the book get a little different. In the book, the narrator decides to shoot himself in the mouth, the only decision he has control over, and wakes up in a hospital, with his alternate personality's (Tyler) followers waiting for him to continue Project Mayhem. In the movie, when he shoots himself, his alternate personality just dies and he is left standing to watch the building blow to pieces. Personally, I like the movie ending more because it finishes the story more. With the book's ending, I am left wondering whats going to happen. I love Palahnuick's storyline and I love how he made the narrator and the other main character the same person. You can tell that the narrator began to think he was crazy by the end of the book because his narrating style changed a lot. It was a little confusing, but I would recommend this book to anyone who can stand violence and a bit of profanity. I LOVED this book.

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