Sunday, April 18, 2010

Those Pesky Anecdotes

Fight Club was a book that I really found a pleasure to read. It possessed a style of prose that was able to be rebellious and incoherent without losing the plot as a result. Really, I was continuously impressed with how much story Palahnuik manages to tell despite it not feeling like the real focus of the book.

My favorite parts of Fight Club, however, were the small and easily ignorable anecdotes that pop up throughout the novel. The boyfriend Marla had who had terrible nightmares, so he took amphetamines to stay awake until they killed them. All the descriptions of technical possibilities of the making of napalm, of filing a cross in the tip of bullets to make them spread. These small things were the most enjoyable to me.

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