Fight Club. Poster of the 1999 movie and cover of the 1996 book
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Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk, 1996
movie vs book
David Fincher, 1999

Fight Club centers on an anonymous narrator, who works as a product recall specialist for an unnamed car company. When he seeks treatment, his doctor sarcastically tells him to visit a support group for testicular cancer victims to ‘see what real suffering is like’. While on a nude beach, the narrator meets Tyler Durden, a charismatic extremist of mysterious means.


Choke. Poster of the 2008 movie and cover of the 2001 book
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Choke
Chuck Palahniuk, 2001
movie vs book
Clark Gregg, 2008

Victor Mancini is a sex addict who works as a reenactor of life in Colonial America. He works with his best friend, Denny, who is also a reformed sex addict. To support his hospitalized mother, Ida, Victor cons others by intentionally choking at restaurants to get money from his rescuers.