I’m not going to talk about the themes it presented because frankly, they’ve been talked to death already. Sure, you’ll get all the nutrients and vitamins you’ll need, but damn, that’s just no fun. Perhaps in the way that someone finds it difficult to live off multi-vitamins and baby food. Not unless said description was utterly crucial to the plot or the development of the central characters.Īnd yet, I still found it hard to read through. No flowery words, no unnecessary paragraphs describing someone’s hair.

It doesn’t have any unnecessary bells and whistles attached to it, because it doesn’t need them. Not because it unlocked some hidden thing within myself or any of that nonsense, but rather in the design of it.

The writing style was thick and fast in the truest sense of the words. And there’s an added bonus that I’m now one of the clique who can look down their noses at those who have ‘only’ watched the movie and haven’t read the book that inspired it. Granted the book’s hardly old enough to be considered a classic, but it is nonetheless literature, and I did in fact enjoy reading it. I can see what everyone’s been going on about. I’d seen the movie, so unfortunately the ending was spoiled (and will be for you if you hadn’t watched or read the movie or book, so consider this my warning), but I was sucked in by the first couple of pages, so I decided to risk my hard-earned fifteen dollars and buy the thing. I’m a fantasy and science-fiction fan, through and through (though given my distaste of 1984 a sentence ago I draw a line even in the genres I truly love) so it was with no small amount of trepidation that I bought ‘Fight Club’ from the ‘indie’ kind of independent book store in the swanky part of Melbourne city a while ago. I’ll be honest though I haven’t read much of classic literature to begin with.

If I find myself unable to read at night, I’ll read a page or two of 1984 and that knocks me out in no time (sorry princess…). Dostoevsky? Even his name puts me to sleep. I was about to insert some witty sentence here about you giving me a book by such-and-such author, but I’m so ‘uncultured’ I can’t even think of a relevant name. I don’t consider myself to be a reader of literature.

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