Would you advise reading FC after you've seen the movie.
I discovered Chuck with the release of Fight Club the movie.
I started reading all his books after I' ve seen the movie.
The only one I didn't read was Fight Club itself.
Should I still read it, even though it would be hard to use my own imagination ? Or is it kinda ruined because of the movie.
Go ahead and read it. It's still pretty good after you've seen the movie. Even though Fight Club is my favorite movie it's probably one of my least favorites of Chuck's books. But it's still a good read.
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Fight Club did raise everyone's standards too high for how a film should be made.
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what, are you just never gonna read it?
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Why wouldn't you? In fact, why ask? If you liked the movie than it's pretty simple that you would like the book.
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yes.
yes i would
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[B]so, yeah, read it, i say, but you might have to dedicate yourself to reading it a few times to get the incredible movie out of your brain. [/B][/QUOTE]
Is it really worth trying to get the movie images out of your head? I read the book after the movie for much the same reasons as other people (I loved it and then read more of Chuck's books) and I found the images from the movie enhanced the book - for me, at least. A lot of the time when I'm reading a book I'll imagine certain situations which fail to make sense later on - when you've seen the movie first, you have that consistency of the images. Had the movie not been made well, I'd have probably not enjoyed the book as much from lousy images, so to speak. To be honest I might not have read the book.
It was the same with The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile. I saw both these films before reading the stories they were based on, and I enjoyed the reading experience because of this.
Another thing is the fact that the film is never the same as the book. In fact, The Green Mile is the closest book-to-film conversion I've seen. What this means is you'll find a lot of stuff in Fight Club the book that wasn't included or explored in Fight Club the film. This doesn't mean the film was dumbed-down in particular, but that it had certain things changed or excluded to make it fit a (film rather than a book) and still make sense - the obvious explanation for this is that the film wanted to capture the speed at which the book moves (for want of a better phrase) and some of the chapters in the book didn't work so well. But that's not a criticism - after all, that's how adaptation works.
So go for it. Read the book, it's not like you're not going to anyway.
Read it. I think most people saw the movie first, but the book is still amazing. It'd be stupid not to read it just because you saw the movie.
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[QUOTE=DeathCabForYou]I discovered Chuck with the release of Fight Club the movie.
I started reading all his books after I' ve seen the movie.
The only one I didn't read was Fight Club itself.
Should I still read it, even though it would be hard to use my own imagination ? Or is it kinda ruined because of the movie.[/QUOTE]
Definitely. Because then you get to second guess every choice that had to be made to adapt it to the screen. It's also interesting to see that Chuck's game is getting better. As much as I love Fight Club, it and Invisible Monsters are probably my least favorite novels of his. I mean that in the best possible sense, they are still better than most of what gets publsihed.
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its been a long time since i read the fight club book but doesnt jack meet tyler on like a nudist beach instead? whats up with that?
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[QUOTE=codyC003]its been a long time since i read the fight club book but doesnt jack meet tyler on like a nudist beach instead? whats up with that?[/QUOTE]
I didn't remember it as a nude beach, but yeah, he's on vacation and Tyler makes this primitive sculpture while Jack sleeps. I think having him meet on the plane is better because part of Jack's problem probably stems from his never taking a vaction (many Americans don't). Another thing they don't have in the movie is the bit where he begs Tyler to save him from Scandanavian furniture. The voice-over for the condo was better in the movie, the way it's put in the book gives too much credence to the notion that he might want his condo destroyed.
On the other and, the movie ending isn't as good as the books to my mind.
Lou beating Tyler up instead of the projectionist union/mobster, both work but I don't see why they changed it. That irritates me when there's no good reason for it.
Also, I wish they'd kept the perfume party scene in the movie.
Still, as adaptations go, it's a good one. You don't come away wondering why they bothered to buyt he rights to something they were only going to use the title from.
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do it.
i read it once and barely remember it because i spent the entire time trying to fight out images of the movie. i'm gonna read it again though, once i buy it again (lost my first copy) and i think i'll get more out of it.
so, yeah, read it, i say, but you might have to dedicate yourself to reading it a few times to get the incredible movie out of your brain.