Once they’d reached this awareness, the members were expected to spin off and pursue a personal quest: To build a house, to paint a self-portrait, to write a book. What would you say are major differences from Adjustment Day’s message to “Project Mayhem” in Fight Club?ĬHUCK PALAHNIUK: Fight Club depicted a process for coaching individuals to discover their greater potential. Most are going to make comparisons of its radical surface to Fight Club’s ideals of rebellion against the system. I got to ask writer Chuck Palahniuk about the comparisons of this new novel to his seminal work Fight Club and how the world’s changed since the dangerous soap of 1996.ĬOMICS BEAT: Adjustment Day is, to say the least, bold. This fantasy about proletariat revolution, power reversal, and the dangers of influence is a fantastic read. Be it in the ideas of its Declaration of Independence or how each nation is governed once separate from the union. The second is a revolutionary manifesto by a man named Talbott Reynolds that contains wisdom such as “We must kill those who would have us kill one another” and is advertised with the slogan “A Smile Is Your Best Bulletproof Vest!” From there, the country is split into divided territories: “Blacktopia,” “Gaysia,” and “Caucasia.” The book has compelling characters, but instead of diving too deep into them, readers are challenged to find who THEY are in this world. The more votes a person gets, the more danger they are in. From this action comes consequence first is “The List”, an internet site where anyone can post the names of people they deem a threat to society.

In Adjustment Day, the United States is on the brink of a new civil war, and millennials are expected to be mowed down by the thousands, a deliberate plan by a crooked senator to avoid an American Arab Spring. Palahniuk embraced the madness in Adjustment Day, crafting a dystopian nightmare that takes all the fractures of our modern society and escalates it… quickly. Many writers have distracted themselves by contemplating the madness of real life current events and pointless arguments polluting traditional mainstream media. His new book brings up what radicalism can accomplish under a seductive figurehead. The book is called Adjustment Day, while the name sounds like a story about a chiropractor gone rogue Palahniuk is turning heads in a different way we’re familiar with.

This week, the purveyor of offensive and introspective, Chuck Palahniuk publishes his first novel in four years.

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