[quote]want2getlean wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
It would help your cause immensely if you got the author’s name right.[/quote]
Something wrong with Boloniuhk?[/quote]
Not at all. He writes deep, thought-provoking fiction.
I suggest you read this:
http://chuckpalahniuk.net/features/shorts/guts
Just ignore the part where it tells you to breathe again.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]want2getlean wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
Nothing whatsover to do with male emasculation in society -at all. Bob losing his nuts to cancer & growing bitch tits isn’t a literal extension of that: he’s just a meathead who took steroids and paid the price. Bad steroids!
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The cutest thing here is that you think any of the film/book’s clumsy symbolism is remotely deep or lost upon me.
Sorry bubba, Fight Club is a shallow story written at a 4th grade level.
Though if you find the film is deep, ‘a work of art’, or in any way emotionally or intelectually challenging, you’re in your perfect right. Duller challenges for duller minds, so says problem based learning!
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It would help your cause immensely if you got the author’s name right.[/quote]
Doesn’t he just sound so smart? I mean, he is clearly much smarter than you so why bother fighting him? He will always win. That is what people of that stature do…they WIN.
Losing in the court of public opinion must be part of his plan. It is clear someone THAT smart would see this level of feedback coming so he must have PLANNED IT!!
It’s like Lex Luthor, dude…we just aren’t Superman enough for him.[/quote]
There’s no arguing with someone who can beat their opinion to death, outstay their welcome, then do it all again with a new account. It’s like playing against someone who has infinite lives: they try to wear you down with an unfair advantage, but even if they win they still fail on every level.
caught me on a spelling mistake? good rebuttal. totally makes what I said bs.
[quote]roybot wrote:
Thrown any stones in any glass houses recently?
[quote]want2getlean wrote:
Though if you find the film is deep, ‘a work of art’, or in any way emotionally or intelectually challenging, you’re in your perfect right.
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???
Something wrong with ‘You’re in your perfect right’?
OOOOOOOOOOOOOH BOOOOY
Too good.
[quote]roybot wrote:
He writes deep, thought-provoking fiction.
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Thought provoking? It’s a nice light crossover from vapid mass media to ANYTHING with substance, but that’s all it’s good for; an introduction.
Any questions tackled by it end up as a failed hypocritical critique, especially its views on liberation and politics that rely on gendered and sexist hierarchies that stem directly from the exact same consumer culture it claims to be criticizing.
Deep? Boloniuhks body of work is a kiddy pool at best. If you really think Fight Club is in any way’deep’, and aren’t just being adamantly contrarian because you’ve got it up your ass that I’m some ‘troll’ out to upset everyone; I feel sorry for you.
[quote]roybot wrote:
There’s no arguing with someone who can beat their opinion to death, outstay their welcome, then do it all again with a new account.[/quote]
Persecution and martyr complex, not sure if funny or pathetic.
[quote]want2getlean wrote:
The movie really wasn’t about anything.
It’s just a hack writer’s Ode to white middle class suberbanite histrionics. [/quote]
Well then that’s something isn’t it?
Yep.
[quote]want2getlean wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
He writes deep, thought-provoking fiction.
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Thought provoking? It’s a nice light crossover from vapid mass media to ANYTHING with substance, but that’s all it’s good for; an introduction.
Any questions tackled by it end up as a failed hypocritical critique, especially its views on liberation and politics that rely on gendered and sexist hierarchies that stem directly from the exact same consumer culture it claims to be criticizing.
Deep? Boloniuhks body of work is a kiddy pool at best. If you really think Fight Club is in any way’deep’, and aren’t just being adamantly contrarian because you’ve got it up your ass that I’m some ‘troll’ out to upset everyone; I feel sorry for you.
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Eastern philosophy has been provoking thoughts for thousands of years…
[quote]want2getlean wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
He writes deep, thought-provoking fiction.
[/quote]
Thought provoking? It’s a nice light crossover from vapid mass media to ANYTHING with substance, but that’s all it’s good for; an introduction.
Any questions tackled by it end up as a failed hypocritical critique, especially its views on liberation and politics that rely on gendered and sexist hierarchies that stem directly from the exact same consumer culture it claims to be criticizing.
Deep? Boloniuhks body of work is a kiddy pool at best. If you really think Fight Club is in any way’deep’, and aren’t just being adamantly contrarian because you’ve got it up your ass that I’m some ‘troll’ out to upset everyone; I feel sorry for you.
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Student copycat wibblespeak makes no sense.
[quote]want2getlean wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
There’s no arguing with someone who can beat their opinion to death, outstay their welcome, then do it all again with a new account.[/quote]
Persecution and martyr complex, not sure if funny or pathetic.[/quote]
Hey, blowhard snowflake hypocrite. Check your spelling of ‘intellectually’ before playing pop psychologist. While you’re at it, look up martyr complex. Insufficient balls to read through the short story I posted, I see. Ironic. A guy without balls criticizing a story where men try to reclaim theirs.
[quote]roybot wrote:
Insufficient balls [/quote]
Down to macho posturing already?
Insecure child.
[quote]want2getlean wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
Insufficient balls [/quote]
Down to macho posturing already?
Insecure child.
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Snowflake, if you’d read the short story I posted when I asked you and followed the breathing directions, we wouldn’t be having this conversation, so yes you are a sackless coward. The posturing, insecure child asked you to do it but you didn’t.
I’m surprised you guys are still arguing in any way with this homo. What’s the point of arguing with a guy who just trolling?
[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
I’m surprised you guys are still arguing in any way with this homo. What’s the point of arguing with a guy who just trolling?[/quote]
Arguing is fun; I find that it’s easier to spot "new " trolls after giving them a hard time (they avoid me or let on they have previous knowledge, as with the case of Prof. X), plus I like wasting the time of attention-seeking blustering losers with no opinion. The two douchebags who dislike Fight Club clearly haven’t even read the book.
[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
homo[/quote]
The guy with no literary taste is a homophobic macho posturing hick, what a surprise.
[quote]roybot wrote:
The two douchebags who dislike Fight Club clearly haven’t even read the book. [/quote]
Oh, I’ve read the book.
The douchebags who love Fight Club just haven’t read many others, if at all.
[quote]want2getlean wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
The two douchebags who dislike Fight Club clearly haven’t even read the book. [/quote]
Oh, I’ve read the book.
The douchebags who love Fight Club just haven’t read many others, if at all.[/quote]
There’s no doubt in my mind that you haven’t read it, less understood it, otherwise you’d have something a little more substantial to say beyond pseudo-intellectual lit-crit bullshittery, even if you DID believe what you wrote. In fact, you’ve got so little to say in general that you’ve resorted to cutting and pasting only the portions of posts you think you can respond to and paraphrase comments that I made back at me. And ooh…typo! Buuurn!
But I’d expect nothing less from an individual with the capacity for self-reflection of a vampire.
My bet is that they’ve never even read the book!
Why read when you can watch the film?
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
My bet is that they’ve never even read the book!
Why read when you can watch the film?
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Me, I did both.
I recall reading that the reason the author chose to focus on fighting was that he had gotten some facial bruises in a scuffle during a camping trip and was surprised by the reaction he got from people when he returned to work. They obviously noticed he had been in fight but were reluctant to ask him any questions.
In any case, I have a different take on why bodybuilding wasn’t featured as the club sport:
Remember, the first rule of fight club is that you don’t talk about fight club. For “Bodybuilding Club,” that simply wouldn’t fly. The very first rule of that club is that you DO talk about it – endlessly. Participants are also expected to talk about it online in inverse proportion to their actual accomplishments in that area.
[quote]BobParr wrote:
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
My bet is that they’ve never even read the book!
Why read when you can watch the film?
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Me, I did both.
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Same here.
I usually don’t find this to be true, but I thought the film was better than the book in this case. Fincher did a remarkable job turning into reality.
There was a seen in the book which I thought was rather hokey… it’s where Tyler was on the beach sitting in a hand-shaped shadow cast by a particular configuration of a sculpture he created. I was glad that never made it to film.