5/28/2023 0 Comments Adjustment day palahniuk![]() ![]() In it, he lays down a dirt-simple premise for a one-day revolution called (no surprise) Adjustment Day: For months, angry men from all across the country have been organizing, planning, recruiting like-minded companions to be the leaders of a new American nation. Sick with all of our current ills and darkest, weirdest desires. ![]() What would happen is Adjustment Day, Palahniuk's newest novel. What if Tyler Durden, rather than being a small-time terrorist with dreams of changing the world but only local follow-through, had somehow managed to ignite the revolution that he'd actually intended? What if, rather than being hampered by secrecy (the first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club), it leveraged social media and the listicle obsessions of the internet? ![]() Bigger in every conceivable way there is to be bigger. So my question is, what would happen if Fight Club were bigger? Bigger in scope. It was a bloody, furious, satirical takedown of the men's movement, self-help groups, slacker culture and consumerism. You remember Fight Club, right? It was Chuck Palahniuk's first novel - a kind of anti- Generation X that just happened to hit (no pun intended) at the perfect moment in time (1996), skewering the perfect targets to the perfect depth. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Adjustment Day Author Chuck Palahniuk ![]()
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