Talk:Fight Club

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To-do list Improve and expand Motifs, Subtext, and Criticism sections. Treat the subliminal images present in the movie possibly put those images in as well or link'em. Deepen description of narrator without focusing solely on his name. Recurring problems The article must focus on the book, not the film. Ignorantly made edits made by people who did not read the book (i.e. Jack instead of Joe) need to be corrected. The two rules lists must stay as they were quoted from the book (again, look out for people adding the film's version).

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October 2004–May 2007

Contents 1 Borrowing from the Poe story 2 Citation 3 Jack?? 4 GA Pass 5 Similarity to "The Man who Was Thursday"

[edit] Borrowing from the Poe story

The sentence in the article, "The novel borrows strongly from "William Wilson", a short story by Edgar Allan Poe," may well be true, but as it stands it is an unsupported assertion. Such an assertion requires evidence--citations of parallels or borrowed material, or a quote from Palahniuk saying "I borrowed from the Poe story". Otherwise anyone could add any purported source or inspiration and rebuff requests for verification by saying, "It's a fact, and as such it does not need a citation." I don't think so. --ShelfSkewed Talk 18:53, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

I removed the assertion. I don't see that Fight Club owes any more to this story than it does to other examples of literary doppelgängers. --ShelfSkewed Talk 04:34, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Citation

The Kavadlo article is not cited correctly. Which issue was it published in? Date? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.253.117.67 (talk • contribs)

It's all in the References section. --ShelfSkewed Talk 16:37, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jack??

The Narrator paragraph seems to concentrate on why his name is 'Jack' rather than say anything about him. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.101.163.101 (talk) 11:22, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Yes, i agree, this should be changed. Someone care to write something decent? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.107.248.62 (talk) 07:26, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

I've deleted some of the "narrator" section. As stated above, it all seemed to be unsourced info about his true name. It's kind of bare now, feel free to add sourced info back to it. Snowfire51 (talk) 08:42, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GA Pass

This article has been reviewed as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force. I believe the article currently meets the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. The article history has been updated to reflect this review. Regards, T Rex | talk 01:05, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Similarity to "The Man who Was Thursday"

I've finished reading The Man Who was Thursday and I found it bore great resemblance to Fight Club. Both plots involve anarchy, a large ring of anarchists with a very well-respected leader, and there is a part where it seems the entire society is in line with the anarchists, and only our hero is the only one with common sense. Both stories involve characters with stong nihilism, and most importantly, a main character with a double personality. Research should be made on this. It seems relevant to add to the article. 64.230.75.168 (talk) 01:22, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

if you can find a reliable source linking the two, then go ahead, otherwise it becomes WP:SYNTHCoffeepusher (talk) 01:49, 27 April 2008 (UTC)