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Blogocentric Formulations #831813 added October 20, 2014 at 8:54pm
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I am Jack's hallucinatory antagonist
 
PROMPT: My favorite antagonist from a book is...
I was sorely tempted to go with Lord Voldemort from the Harry Potter series for this entry, but I recently read a book that reminded me of how much I loved the movie, and I had no choice to go with Tyler Durden as my favorite antagonist from:
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I have no idea why I hadn't read the actual book until now. Maybe it was the fact that the only other work of Chuck Palahniuk's prior to this was the short story "Guts," which - if you haven't read it - is probably one of the most graphic and shudder-inducing stories I've ever read. It was originally published in Playboy Magazine and later in his book Haunted. Rumor has it that Palaniuk read this short story while on a book tour to promote his novel Diary, and the story was so graphic and disturbing, that over 35 people fainted during the readings. That number has increased with subsequent tours to over 60 across two book tours. I'm not going to tell you what the story is about, but if you want to be disturbed, you can find it it here  if you really, really want to read it. (But don't say I didn't warn you...)
The title of this blog post gives away the twist in Fight Club, but honestly, there's gotta be some kind of expiration date on spoiler alerts, right? The movie came out fifteen years ago and the book was released way back in 1996. And wow, now I feel really, really old.  Honestly, though, this is probably one of my favorite movies of all time because I think it addresses some very real issues in our society, including people's general sense of apathy and malaise, as well as their desire to have their lives mean something. Even though I think the movie is a little more relevant pre-recession when capitalism was in full swing, I think people can still identify with the materialism these characters are trying to escape from. And what I particularly like about Tyler Durden is that, as a character, he's equal parts sane and crazy, both rational and irrational. He's charismatic and psychotic. There are times where you're following along and going, "You know what? He kind of has a point there!" And it's usually right before or right after you've thought, "What is it with this guy? He's nuts!" 
For those of you who have seen the movie, check out these 25 Things You Probably Didn't Know About The Movie 'Fight Club' . If you're a fan of the movie and its message, you can probably appreciate all the little personal touches they added to the movie to really hammer home the theme of the movie (some of them are also just behind-the-scenes stuff about the actors and whatnot).
If you haven't read this book or seen this movie, I'd highly recommend them both. Maybe not for everybody as there are some pretty graphic and crass moments in the story... but if you're not easily offended and you want to check out an intriguing story masterfully told, I'd highly recommend watching or reading Fight Club.
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