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"Stories you'll never forget--just try--from literature's favorite transgressive author. Representing work that spans several years, Make Something Up is a compilation of 21 stories and one novella (some previously published, some not) that will disturb and delight. The absurdity of both life and death are on full display; in "Zombies," the best and brightest of a high school prep school become tragically addicted to the latest drug craze: electric...
2) Fight Club
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The story of a young man who discovers that his rage at living in a world filled with failure and lies cannot be pacified by an empty consumer culture. Relief for him and his disenfranchised peers comes in the form of secret after-hours boxing matches held in the basements of bars.
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When a ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a soap salesman channel their aggression into therapeutic "fight clubs", an eccentric woman gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
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First there was the insomnia.
Then there were the support groups that helped him sleep.
Then Marla Singer turned up, muscled in on ascending bowel cancer and ruined everything.
Then he met Tyler Durden.
Then came Fight Club.
Fight Club is the psychological story of a man's descent into an underground world of violence. Mild mannered product-recall-specialist by day, tortured insomniac by night, our narrator meets Tyler Durden
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"Fight Club 2 is available exclusively as a Graphic Novel! Some imaginary friends never go away. Ten years after starting Project Mayhem, Sebastian lives a mundane life. A kid, a wife. Pills to keep his destiny at bay. But it won't last long, the wife has seen to that. He's back where he started, but this go-round he's got more at stake than his own life. The time has arrived. Rize or Die. New York Tomes bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk and acclaimed...
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A lonely, isolated thirty-something insomniac young professional seeks an escape from his mundane existence with the help of a devious soap salesman. They find release from their reality prison through underground fight clubs, where men can be what the world now denies them. Their boxing matches and harmless pranks soon lead to an out-of-control spiral towards oblivion.
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"Marla Singer is about to deliver her second child, but the daddy isn't her husband--it's Tyler Durden, who's very invested in his heir, and the world he'll inherit. Marla, her first son, and her husband--the unnamed narrator in this novel, who now goes by Balthazar--live in a rundown motel with sketchy neighbors. In the Fight Club 2 graphic novel, Tyler transformed Project Mayhem into Rize or Die--now, as a road to paradise presents itself, a new...
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"-Pierwsza zasada klubu walki to nie rozmawiac o klubie walki - wykrzykuje Tyler. - Druga zasada klubu walki - krzyczy Tyler - to nie rozmawiac o klubie walki. (...) Tyler stoi pod jedyna lampa w popólnocnych ciemnosciach w pelnej mezczyzn piwnicy i wylicza pozostale reguly: dwóch mezczyzn, jedna walka, jedna walka na raz, boso i bez koszul, walka trwa do skutku. - I siódma zasada - krzyczy Tyler - jezeli to jest twoja pierwsza noc w klubie, to...
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"Yaksho mozhna postiyno prokydatysya v riznykh mistsyakh i v rizni chasy, chomu b odnoho razu ne prokynutysya inshoyu lyudynoyu? Same takoyi istyny pevnoho dnya dokholyt' bezimennyy heroy tsiyeyi istoriyi. Dosyapy bazhanoho, vnesty novyy zmist u perepovnenu bezsonnyam real'nist' yomu dopomahaye buntivnyk na imʼya Tayler D'orlen. Toy pryvodyt' heroya u mistse, shcho zvet'sya biytsivs'kym klubom. I pershe pravylo klubu -- nikoly nikomu ne hovoryty...
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"As part of the contemporary reassessment of trauma that goes beyond Freudian psychoanalysis, Laurie Vickroy theorizes trauma in the context of psychological, literary, and cultural criticism. Focusing on novels by Margaret Atwood, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Jeanette Winterson, and Chuck Palahniuk, she shows how these writers try to enlarge our understanding of the relationship between individual traumas and the social forces of injustice, oppression,...
11) Fight club
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When a ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a soap salesman channel their aggresion into therapeutic "fight clubs", an eccentric woman gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
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Dadaism volume 6
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A template for pranksters, artists, adventurers and anyone interested in rampant creativity, for years to come. Tales Of The San Francisco Cacophony Society tells the history of the most influential underground cabal that you have never heard of.
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