"|condo]] to prevent unecessary redirects? - , 2004-04-10t01:00z

Not sure the recent edit changing Tyler from ""Anarchist"" to ""Nihilist"" is accurate. Tyler certainly does have a ethos and creed, where as a nihilist does not. His creed can certainly be said to be destruction of the current culture and certainly retrograde in many respects, seeking to return to a simpler subsistence level of existence (i.e. hunter/gatherer) but he definitely has an established ethos and world-view. It is simply contrary to much of modern society. I posit that the edit should be reverted back to anarchist.  17:56, Apr 9, 2004 (UTC)

Reader's Digest, Jack/Joe
Hey, a few years ago I was reading a really old Reader's Digest and I swear I actually read an article written first person from an organ's point of view.  (I don't remember which.)

...and the guy's name was Joe.

This was before I read the book, so I just thought it was a really odd coincidence at the time...I can't seem to find the article anymore, though.  Does anyone else have any info on this?  Was Joe changed to Jack to avoid legal troubles with the original ""Joe's XXXXXX"" author?

 The author of the book was talking about real stories from Reader's Digest, so you probably did read the same ones he refered to. ""Joe"" is changed to ""Jack"" in the movie because Reader's Digest wasn't willing to allow them to mention it in the film.  LGagnon

I have a copy of John Pekkanen's article ""I am John's Brain Tumour"", from Reader's Digest (South Africa) 1990-12, volume 137, number 824. Chapter 7 of my copy of Palahniuk's Fight club has ""I am Jane's Uterus. I am Joe's Prostate. [...] I am totally Joe's Gallbladder"", ISBN 0-099-28333-6, Vintage (1997) UK Random House. The English RD sites I searched came up empty. The earliet ""Joe""s I found were two 1974 videos  from ""Pyramid Films"". I found that ""Pyramid Media"" credits it to RD . Does anyone have a source of an actual Reader's Digest article with ""Joe""? - , 2004-04-15t22:37z

 It is mentioned on the commentary for the DVD that Reader's Digest told them not to use ""Joe"". Apperantely they own the copyright somehow. Either way, the narrator in the book does use Joe rather than Jack. And given that the book is the original story, I believe that ""Joe"" should be used more often in the article than ""Jack"" (though ""the narrator"" fits the character's ""name"" more accurately). The article seems to lean too much towards being about the movie, which makes it seem as if it was the original source material instead of the book. It would be best that we keep the article based mainly on the book, with details on the movie where applicable. Otherwise, what we would be doing would be the equivelent of someone making the Lord of the Rings article more about the Peter Jackson movie than JRR Tolkien's work.  LGagnon

Tyler section
We should merge the Tyler Durden section into the characters section. There isn't a need for 2 separate sections on him. As it is it looks redundant and a bit sloppy. Any details that don't fit that section can go into a different one.  LGagnon

Backstory of the novel
I just recently updated the article on Chuck Palahniuk with info on how Fight Club came to be. This is in the first paragraph of the Biography section. I was wondering if anyone thought we should include that info in this article, since it gives the backstory of how it was written.   Talk]] 12:00, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Musical
This this for real? I've never heard such a thing, can anyone offer proof?  User:KneeLess 4:59, 05 Aug 2004 (UTC)

See http://www.playbill.com/news/article/86917.html for more details. Also a recent Guardian interview.   11:17, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Movie & Book Balance
As I mentioned above at the end of the Reader's Digest, Jack/Joe section, the article is ""biased"" towards the movie (that is, the info for the film is treated as being the primary source instead of the book), and needs to be balanced equally for the book. I have fixed a recent re-write of the plot section (which made it even more biased in favor of the film), but more work could be done to balance the article. I think that fixing this is the most important o