Your favorite book or movie

So, the themed post is back and for today I have two easy options: write about your favorite book or movie. Fortunately, my favorite book and movie are the same: Fight Club.

Fight Club is a book written by Chuck Palahniuk, a former blue-collar worker. Palahniuk studied journalism but he worked as a diesel mechanic before becoming a successful novelist. While he was working, he attended book clubs and wrote short stories. That is how Fight Club began, as a 6-page short story. Later, and after receiving a good review from his fellows in the book club he tried his luck and turned it into a novel. 

Fight Club is a story about an unnamed average white collar worker who has a severe case of insomnia. While trying to fix his problem, because he was supposedly in pain, he received an ironic piece of advice from his doctor "You wanna see pain? Swing by First Methodist Tuesday nights. See the guys with testicular cancer. That's pain" And that is how he cured his insomnia, he started to attend meetings every night, every week, where different people would try to cope with their diseases. By lying to them and earning their empathy, his insomnia was magically cured. Unfortunately, another person, a woman named Marla, had the same idea and screwed his plan. Therefore, insomina was back. When things were turning for the worse, the protagonist meets Tyler Durden, a handsome soap maker and distributor who believed capitalism and consumerism were depriving society from their most talented people and were making our lives meaningless and useless by constantly brainwashing everyone. Society was so worried of owning things and preserving things that our early ancestors who had to fight to survive would be embarrassed. That's when they wonder if they had been in a real fight, and decide to fight. The fights cured the insomnia and attracted more people that were like them. I won't say anymore because I don't want to spoil the fun.

I really like this book because its main point is not physical violence, nope, the main point is that the society we are in is depriving us from our drive to do things, that we are being brainwashed all the time and that we are so immersed in it that we can't fight back, can we?

The book and movie are quite similar, and I really enjoy both.