Blood,Sweat and Books

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly blog post hosted by  Breaking The Spine  where readers showcase which books they are highly anticipating. This week I'm turning my spotlight on Beautiful You by Chuck Palahniuk.  Expected Publication:  October 21, 2014 by Doubleday Canada Penny Harrigan is a low level associate in a big Manhattan law firm with an apartment in Queens and no love life at all. So it comes as a great shock when she finds herself invited to dinner by one C. Linus Maxwell, aka "Climax-Well," a software mega-billionaire and lover of the most gorgeous and accomplished women on earth. After dining at Manhattan's most exclusive restaurant, he whisks Penny of to a hotel suite in Paris, where he proceeds, notebook in hand, to bring her to previously undreamed-of heights of orgasmic pleasure for days on end. What's not to like?      This: Penny discovers that she is a test subject for the final development of a line of sex toys to...

It's time for another Mash-Up Monday. So what is Mash-Up Monday you ask?? Well Mash-Up Monday is when you take two books that really have nothing in common and Mash them up to create an entirely different book. Sounds simple enough right? This week I'll be Mashing up Slaughterhouse-Five and A Clockwork Orange. While both Slaughterhouse-Five and A Clockwork Orange are classics in their own right they both have flaws limited by either the decade they were written or the characters themselves but....mash them together, taking the best bits out of both books, and you have the amazingly awesome Novel that is Fight Club. Fight Club if you haven't read it is about a man who has become disenfranchised with the world and to let loose his rage at societal flaws joins a secret under ground boxing club with no rules or limits. The book takes a hard look at consumer culture while also delving into the psyche of someone at their breaking point. If you haven't read Fight...

For this weeks Book To Movie Monday I have decided to cover the movie Fight Club. First Let's Discuss The Book Below Is The Cover Now for a little back story in case some of you aren't familiar with the novel. Fight Club is written by the Author Chuck Palahniuk and was released August 17,1996 by W.W. Norton. Fight club was inspired by an altercation the Author once had on a camping trip. Fight Club was initially written as a short story in the compilation The Pursuit Of Happiness but was later expanded to full novel form after receiving positive feedback. Let's look at some of the characters in the book. Main Protagonists The Narrator- Nameless and suffering from Insomnia he is the co-creator of Fight Club. Due to his long suffering fight with Insomnia The Narrator attends support groups for people with terminal diseases as a way to vent his frustration though he is physically fine himself. Tyler Durden- Co-creator of Fight Club. Tyler is friend to the Narrat...