Choke, published in 2001, became Chuck’s first New York Times bestseller. Chuck put out two novels in 1999, Survivor and Invisible Monsters. The film’s popularity drove sales of the novel. The adaptation of Fight Club was a flop at the box office, but achieved cult status on DVD. Written in stolen moments under truck chassis and on park benches to a soundtrack of The Downward Spiral and Pablo Honey, Fight Club came into existence. When Adjustment Day arrives, it fearlessly makes real the logical conclusion of every separatist fantasy, alternative fact, and conspiracy theory lurking in the American psyche. The weak want you to forgo your destiny just as they’ve shirked theirs. There is only your son and his son and his son and the world you leave for them. Into this dyspeptic time a blue-black book is launched carrying such wisdom as: Smug, geriatric politicians bring the nation to the brink of a third world war in an effort to control the burgeoning population of young males working-class men dream of burying the elites and professors propound theories that offer students only the bleakest future. They are ready for the reckoning.Īdjustment Day, the author’s first novel in four years, is an ingeniously comic work in which Chuck Palahniuk does what he does best: skewer the absurdities in our society. They’ve been reading a mysterious book and memorizing its directives. People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming.
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