[pstuart]

My limited understanding is that Palahniuk's book was a kind of fuck you to the publishing establishment (and in that vein, I highly recommend American Fiction).

Fight Club is one of my favorite movies of all time (although I could do with less onscreen fighting). It was (to me) part of a cosmic trilogy of movies ending the millennium:

  * Fight Club
  * American Beauty
  * The Matrix

All three dealt with the concept of sleepwalking through life and the shock of waking up from it.