Reading a novel that was the source material for one of your favorite films is always an interesting and potentially disappointing endeavor. So far my biggest let down in that department was Fight Club, the 1996 book written by Chuck Palahniuk. It wasn’t so much Palahniuk’s fault, as it was film director David Fincher’s incredible [...]
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For Madmen Only!
After finishing Steppenwolf, I have to say that it might be the densest 218-page book ever written. Not dense as in unenjoyable, but dense as in containing an incredible amount of useful information and quotable statements. However, thanks to Colin Wilson’s book The Outsider, I had distorted expectations going into Steppenwolf. For some reason I [...]
