His best work has always been about looking at the world as it is and imagining it five minutes from now, assuming all the worst outcomes. He has always dealt in the blackest, bleakest comedy. Palahniuk has always been a vicious satirist. He wants to see how thin of a tightrope he can walk between satire and slur, provocation and revulsion, knowing full well that at this moment in our collective history, he isn't just doing it without a net but over a pit filled with fire and spikes and 10,000 rabid wolverines, too.īook Reviews 'Beautiful You' Makes Sex And Death Boring Chuck Palahniuk just wants to see how far he can push you before you get offended, throw the book down, walk away from it for good. And the only way to collect?Īnd yes, obviously, Palahniuk is playing a game with you here, the same game he's been playing since Fight Club - a game on which he's more or less staked his entire career. That value would translate to votes in these men's new American government.

Once the names were all collected and the list finalized, value was added to each name in accordance with how many votes it'd received. Sick with all of our current ills and darkest, weirdest desires. They share it only with those they trust. For months, they've been reading a mysterious book with a blue-black cover. In it, he lays down a dirt-simple premise for a one-day revolution called (no surprise) Adjustment Day: For months, angry men from all across the country have been organizing, planning, recruiting like-minded companions to be the leaders of a new American nation. What would happen is Adjustment Day, Palahniuk's newest novel. What if Tyler Durden, rather than being a small-time terrorist with dreams of changing the world but only local follow-through, had somehow managed to ignite the revolution that he'd actually intended? What if, rather than being hampered by secrecy (the first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club), it leveraged social media and the listicle obsessions of the internet? Bigger in every conceivable way there is to be bigger. So my question is, what would happen if Fight Club were bigger? Bigger in scope. It was a bloody, furious, satirical takedown of the men's movement, self-help groups, slacker culture and consumerism. You remember Fight Club, right? It was Chuck Palahniuk's first novel - a kind of anti- Generation X that just happened to hit (no pun intended) at the perfect moment in time (1996), skewering the perfect targets to the perfect depth. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Adjustment Day Author Chuck Palahniuk

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