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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The Cunning of Desire
Aside from The Outsider and Tropic of Cancer, the other life-changing book I read this year (yes, it’s been a big year of reading discoveries) was Life Against Death by Norman O. Brown. I actually heard about it last fall, when I bought a large book on Stanley Kubrick as a Christmas present for my [...]
