Comments on: Midnight at the Egyptian: Fight Club http://seattle.metblogs.com/2007/03/29/midnight-at-the-egyptian-fight-club/ Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:32:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Peter http://seattle.metblogs.com/2007/03/29/midnight-at-the-egyptian-fight-club/comment-page-1/#comment-4110 Peter Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:46:39 +0000 http://seattle.metblogs.com/2007/03/29/midnight-at-the-egyptian-fight-club/#comment-4110 Fight Club's a pretty well-written book, but Science Cannot Explain why Palahniuk has been unable to break free of the same prose style ever since. Seriously, every single book he's written after FC reads like a discarded middle chapter. Same obsession with gore, same formulaic "I know this because Tyler knows this," "Ask me how I know this," etc. On the the other hand, the movie's IKEA parody (Fürni) is pretty funny. Fight Club’s a pretty well-written book, but Science Cannot Explain why Palahniuk has been unable to break free of the same prose style ever since. Seriously, every single book he’s written after FC reads like a discarded middle chapter. Same obsession with gore, same formulaic “I know this because Tyler knows this,” “Ask me how I know this,” etc.

On the the other hand, the movie’s IKEA parody (Fürni) is pretty funny.

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