“”What you have to consider,” he says, “is the possibility that God doesn’t like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that can happen.”
How Tyler saw it was that getting God’s attention for being bad was better than getting no attention at all. Maybe because God’s hate is better than his indifference.
If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?
We are God’s middle children, according to Tyler Durden, with no special place in history and no special attention.
Unless we get God’s attention, we have no hope of damnation or redemption.”
“”We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we’ll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won’t. And we’re just learning this fact,” Tyler said. “So don’t f_ck with us.”"
Survivor
This book started slow for me. I liked the idea well enough, but it was just really slow until somewhere in the middle of the book. I am desperate to know if all the cleaning advice offered in the book actually works. For instance, if you soap the inside of a crease in a pair of dress pants before ironing, will it really make the crease sharper? Then somewhere in the middle of the book, I really started to like it and by the end I was completely hooked. It was very unsettling to read a book where the page and chapter numbers are in reverse order.
In some ways his writing reminds me of William Gibson, except that when Mr. Palahniuk has a really clever original idea, he develops it completely as part of the story, while Mr. Gibson blows you away with the idea and never completes it.
One other interesting bit of the story for me was that I’ve know people raised in religious colonies, which made the entire story more real to me.
Here are a few of my favorite excerpts. The author has a wonderful gift for twisting a phrase or thought.
“”We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we’ll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won’t. And we’re just learning this fact,” Tyler said. “So don’t f_ck with us.”"
“It’s all so deep.
So real.
Everything the agent’s been telling me makes perfect sense. For instance, if Jesus Christ had died in prison, with no one watching and with no one there to mourn or torture him, would we be saved?
With all due respect.
According to the agent, the biggest factor that makes you a saint is the amount of press coverage you get.”
“We’re all miserable together. It’s the opposite of a victimless crime.” Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
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“We’re all miserable together. It’s the opposite of a victimless crime.” Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
