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Der Tattoo Thread.
NarwhalSunshine:
I hate Chuck Palahniuk, I refuse to even try and read his books after Invisible Monsters. Fight Club was an alright movie though.
Skibas_clavicle:
What? Invisible Monsters was clearly his best book.
Let's get back to talking about tattoos, people. If you want to talk about entertainment, go to the Books, Movies & TV parts of the forum and interact with the like 4 other people who post there regularly.
falkonn:
I know there's been a call for tattooey goodness, but I feel like I should get a chance to respond.
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Way to generalize there guy, since you know me so well. All I'm saying is that in my day to day wanderings, most of the time when I bring up fight club the book people have gone..."What, it's a book? I didn't know that." Even though the movie is plastered with Based on the book by...
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--- Quote from: falkonn on 13 Mar 2008, 20:45 ---So much of the great writing in that movie is stolen straight from the book.
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I'm pretty sure that's the idea behind that whole making-movies-out-of-books concept.
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Oh, I agree that it's totally the idea. But I always assumed that the screenwriters had thrown in at least a little bit of the good stuff. I can't think of anything that is memorable enough to quote from in that movie that is not written word for word by Palahniuk.
Also, to get back on topic...here's a tattoo. My best friend got this recently because it is on the cover of a book that she loves, plus its a nautilus shell and earlier in this thread people were talking about how cool a nautilus shell would be as a tattoo.
calenlass:
I am not sure I would've gone with that rendering of a nautilus, if it were me.
tania:
fight club was pretty alright. so was choke.
palahniuk has some pretty good ideas but his writing style becomes really abrasive after a while. i just want to shake him and explain proper punctuation. yes, breaking the rules once in a while is fun and creative... in moderation.
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