Sick with all of our current ills and darkest, weirdest desires. They share it only with those they trust.

For months, they've been reading a mysterious book with a blue-black cover. In it, he lays down a dirt-simple premise for a one-day revolution called (no surprise) Adjustment Day: For months, angry men from all across the country have been organizing, planning, recruiting like-minded companions to be the leaders of a new American nation. What would happen is Adjustment Day, Palahniuk's newest novel. What if Tyler Durden, rather than being a small-time terrorist with dreams of changing the world but only local follow-through, had somehow managed to ignite the revolution that he'd actually intended? What if, rather than being hampered by secrecy (the first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club), it leveraged social media and the listicle obsessions of the internet? Bigger in every conceivable way there is to be bigger. So my question is, what would happen if Fight Club were bigger? Bigger in scope. It was a bloody, furious, satirical takedown of the men's movement, self-help groups, slacker culture and consumerism. You remember Fight Club, right? It was Chuck Palahniuk's first novel - a kind of anti- Generation X that just happened to hit (no pun intended) at the perfect moment in time (1996), skewering the perfect targets to the perfect depth. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Jason Sheehan, reviewing the novel for NPR, called most of the book a 'quick, horrifying descent into madness', but that Palahniuk 'just can't stick the landing' and that 'it ends with a whimper rather than a bang'.Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Adjustment Day Author Chuck Palahniuk

Before the vote can be made to reinstate the draft, readers of Reynolds's manifesto rise up, kill the targets on The List, and use severed ears taken from those killings to prove their power and become the new leaders of a new United States, split into the regions of Blacktopia, Gaysia, and Caucasia.Īdjustment Day has received mixed reviews.

Meanwhile, the mysterious Talbott Reynolds circulates a small blue and black book throughout the country full of his own manifesto and wisdom on how life should be lived, and a Web site called 'The List' allows users to submit and vote on public figures they think deserve to be killed. In a near-future United States, a corrupt Senator plans to reinstate the draft to send young men to die in a planned nuclear attack of mutually agreed-upon destruction in the Middle East to prevent an uprising of those same young men. Adjustment Day is a 2018 novel by Chuck Palahniuk.

Adjustment Day by Chuck Palahniuk