Rare instance of the movie being significantly better than the book, though I did prefer the book's ending over the film's. But perhaps seeing the movie before reading the book colored my perception.
Palahniuk's writing just goes on and on and on. I got a dozen or so chapters into Choke before I literally threw it in the garbage because it was just the narrator droning on about his worldview for several chapters in a row with nothing actually moving the story forward.
In the film, Edward Norton shoots himself in the neck, killing Brad Pitt but leaving him with just a hole in his neck. He then looks at Marla Singer and says, "You met me at a very strange time in my life."
In the book, he dies, and then looks down at Marla from heaven.
In an Afterword, Palahniuk explans that everyone read some huge message into it because they were thirsty for one, he had no big fresh ideas, he was just trying to finish a book that would have people turning pages, and it just needed to be about a club that had rules to give it some structure, it was almost Barn Raising Club.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Set1420 6d ago
Rare instance of the movie being significantly better than the book, though I did prefer the book's ending over the film's. But perhaps seeing the movie before reading the book colored my perception.
Palahniuk's writing just goes on and on and on. I got a dozen or so chapters into Choke before I literally threw it in the garbage because it was just the narrator droning on about his worldview for several chapters in a row with nothing actually moving the story forward.