Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Fight Club is another “book that became a movie I loved but I’ve never read the book” so I got to it this year. I listened to the audio book and thoroughly enjoyed it. I never did catch where the “I am Joe’s ____” came from until now.
I enjoyed the story and the slow build up to the realization of who Tyler really is.
I didn’t know there was a Fight Club 2 graphic novel until today, so I’ve added that to the to-read pile too.
Political Discourse, 2017 finds its roots in Fight Club.
Today’s tough-guy posturing seems rooted, paradoxically, in threat and fear: fear of defeat, fear of lost status and fear that society is growing increasingly ill suited to tough-guy posturing in the first place. The narrator of “Fight Club,” source of that “snowflake” mantra, was a delusional man coping with modernity by inventing a hypermasculine alter-ego, imagining himself as the man-cult leader Tyler Durden. But making an entire alternate masculine identity is a lot of work. It’s always much easier to just call other people wimps and snowflakes — and hope they’ll be intimidated enough to melt away.
Via – How ‘Snowflake’ Became America’s Inescapable Tough-Guy Taunt – The New York Times
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