gintoki enjoyer: I work at my university's bookstore and every...

16 September 2014

8:48pm

I work at my university's bookstore and every semester one of the professors teaches 'Fight Club' and it's so exciting to see boxes of it come in and rather disappointed to see people return their rented copied or sell them back. Once I returned a copy and the student wrote the synopsis of each chapter under the heading and I freaked out. My manager said it was in otherwise fine condition so we couldn't charge her but what spoilers. How do you feel about your work being taught ?

chuckpalahniuk said

That fact that ‘Fight Club’ is being taught seems — to me — to underscore the dearth of novels that explore male issues. The past years have given us so many books, from ‘The Color Purple’ to ‘The Joy Luck Club’ to ‘How to Make an American Quilt,’ which depict women in groups and relationship, but almost no books depicting social models for men. That’s my two cents worth.

synecdoche

i am sitting here SCREAMING with laughter

what world do you live in chuck palahniuk

and how can i live in this world with a dearth of novels that explore male issues

jesuisperdu

wow

leonrw

showing this to everyone who tries to argue that palahniuk is being ironic and mocking masculinity and ‘male issues’ in fight club

omggg

slimefarts

ROFLMAO!!!

roscoemcnally

It’s literally impossible to be this blind. Also, the books he listed are all pre-1995. And two of them famously focus on women of colour. Is he honestly comparing white men to women of colour in the representation stakes. IS THIS REAL LIFE…