Book and Movie Reports by Ed

Book/movie report: Fight Club by Chuck Pahlaniuk All together now: The first rule of fight club is you don't talk about fight club. Having now broken it, yes, this book and movie are the source of that ironic meme. I saw the movie several times before ever reading the book. I never saw the surprise coming in the movie. I know I never would have picked it up in the book, even though it's far more obvious in the book. I'm just not that clever. The book starts with the first-person unnamed narrator attending support meetings for people with horrible diseases. He doesn't have any of these diseases: this is the only way he has to make a connection with people. It's at one of these support meetings that he meets Marla Singer, whom he hates on sight, because she, too, is a faker and is ruining his experience of faking. As you can tell, this is a darkly comic book. Shortly afterwards, he meets Tyler Durden, a charismatic guy whose goal is to destroy civilization. Go