Showing posts with label anarchy. Show all posts
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Thursday, 3 May 2012

Fight Club

Palahniuk, Chuck. Fight Club, New York: W. W. Norton & Company ,1996.

How to maintain your identity and your masculinity in a world of consumerism? That is one of the many questions provoked in Fight club as it follows an anonymous narrator struggling with insomnia until he meets the charismatic Tyler Durden who together create an underground boxing club which quickly obtains many members who all try to regain their masculinity through fighting and anarchic acts of mischief.

Fight Club which was adapted into a highly successful film starring Brad Pitt feels like a piece of apocalyptic fiction and is darkly humorous in its tone.

Intended mature audiences those who can handled its intensity will find it quite enjoyable and it is a must have for generation X individuals.

Monday, 30 April 2012

Hell's Angels

Thompson, Hunter S. Hell’s Angels. New York: Modern Library, c1967.

Based on Hunter S Thompson’s experiences Hell’s Angels follows Thompson as he recounts his time living with California’s infamous biker gang of the 1960s the Angels as they travel through California. Thompson learns about the bikers and how they live.

Vibrant and perceptive Hell’s Angel creates a realistic portrait of counter culture and anarchy in biker lifestyle.

Written with a candid style and with a violent menacing tone Hell’s Angels is a cult classic.