Attention deficit disorder. That is how I would describe the nature of Fight Club. The author makes an attempt at making the book interesting by jumping around in the timeline and back/forth between storylines. For me this doesn’t make the book more interesting, rather it makes it an annoying read. If you don’t pay complete attention you get lost and have to re-read some three plus pages. Having said this however, the writing style does reflect the theme so the book somewhat. The narrator’s initial job requires him to jump about the country and deal with random and assorted accidents. Then he decides to go to support group meetings, and then he decides to start a fight club. Random and sporadic to the core. This book would be a total failure if the ending did not tie everything together so well. In fact the ending is what makes the book so awesome.
Maybe the answer is to "pay complete attention" (isn't this what Tarrou was trying to get us to do in the Plague?).
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your thoughts.