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Fight Club
by Chuck Palahniuk
Before I start with my review since there are a few spoilers my suggestion would be to watch the movie first before reading the book. Both are extremely good, but I think I prefer to be surprised by the ending while watching the movie. :) Knowing what is going to happen, in my opinion, was not detrimental to having it be a most excellent read.
Anarchy--a state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition of authority; the absence of government and absolute freedom of the individual. nihilism, mobocracy, insurrection, disorder, chaos. (definition, etc from the dictionary)
Fight Club although started as a 7 page short story exploring how a generation of men raised solely by women become men by beating each other up (mass simplification)...as a novel it becomes so much more. It's about anarchy, men trying to be men without having examples of what men are, the state of the soul when we question the order of life and the reasons why people do the destructive things we do, mental health, relationships with each other, the fact that we try to control so much of the petty aspects of our lives because the major things in our life are so much out of our control, our dependence on material objects; the list can go on and on. Fight Club definately demands multiple readings.
This read through what I really liked about it is the way that it addresses the irony inherent in anarchy. If anarchy is the nonrecognition of authority and the absolute freedom of the individual. The ability to do whatever we want to achieve whatever personal aims we have. However all anarchy is started and led by someone. Tyler was a leader, an authority, he told his band of men what to do in order to create chaos in the world around them. Anarchists seem to believe in stirring up mayhem, chaos and lawlessness in the world outside of themselves, yet in order to do that they must have control (laws, rules, set behaviors and a leader) of their own little world in order to achieve their aims. Anarchy in itself is a dicotomy...the use of control in a small environment to exert a state of disorder in the larger world around you, just as Tyler is a dicotomy...two men one the extreme of the other living in the same body.
I also liked that even though it would seem that anarchy would be the natural order of things, like entropy, but that as human beings we tend to want to go back to organizations and rules. That we strive to impose some sort of order into our lives so that we can survive from day to day. Because in the end Tyler had to die in order for the real him (the narrator...who has no name) to survive. Unfortunantly, just like every vice in life we have to work hard to keep ourselves in check, therefore he continues to be afraid that Tyler will come back, whether from forces with in himself or through coercion of those that Tyler indoctrinated.
I loved the multiple layers and meanings that you could get out of this book. This read through obviously it was the anarchy that caught my eye. Of course this may have somewhat to do with the fact that I read the book and also watched The Dark Knight right around the same time. Both things deal with the subject of anarchy.
Anarchy--a state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition of authority; the absence of government and absolute freedom of the individual. nihilism, mobocracy, insurrection, disorder, chaos. (definition, etc from the dictionary)
Fight Club although started as a 7 page short story exploring how a generation of men raised solely by women become men by beating each other up (mass simplification)...as a novel it becomes so much more. It's about anarchy, men trying to be men without having examples of what men are, the state of the soul when we question the order of life and the reasons why people do the destructive things we do, mental health, relationships with each other, the fact that we try to control so much of the petty aspects of our lives because the major things in our life are so much out of our control, our dependence on material objects; the list can go on and on. Fight Club definately demands multiple readings.
This read through what I really liked about it is the way that it addresses the irony inherent in anarchy. If anarchy is the nonrecognition of authority and the absolute freedom of the individual. The ability to do whatever we want to achieve whatever personal aims we have. However all anarchy is started and led by someone. Tyler was a leader, an authority, he told his band of men what to do in order to create chaos in the world around them. Anarchists seem to believe in stirring up mayhem, chaos and lawlessness in the world outside of themselves, yet in order to do that they must have control (laws, rules, set behaviors and a leader) of their own little world in order to achieve their aims. Anarchy in itself is a dicotomy...the use of control in a small environment to exert a state of disorder in the larger world around you, just as Tyler is a dicotomy...two men one the extreme of the other living in the same body.
I also liked that even though it would seem that anarchy would be the natural order of things, like entropy, but that as human beings we tend to want to go back to organizations and rules. That we strive to impose some sort of order into our lives so that we can survive from day to day. Because in the end Tyler had to die in order for the real him (the narrator...who has no name) to survive. Unfortunantly, just like every vice in life we have to work hard to keep ourselves in check, therefore he continues to be afraid that Tyler will come back, whether from forces with in himself or through coercion of those that Tyler indoctrinated.
I loved the multiple layers and meanings that you could get out of this book. This read through obviously it was the anarchy that caught my eye. Of course this may have somewhat to do with the fact that I read the book and also watched The Dark Knight right around the same time. Both things deal with the subject of anarchy.