#both are very good but i think theres more depth in the book partially due to just like. time allowance of medium

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just randomly floored again by how good fight club is. thinking about the scene where the narrator is desperately tracking tyler across the country. both the book and movie do it perfectly, though in different ways. the movie is very intentional, there's a sense Tyler is playing with him, the narrator is desperate and his only goal is to track down Tyler. i do love the added Tyler was setting up franchises line. but also, it's interesting to think about how it wouldn't work in the book because the tone of all of it is different.

in the book, he's actually still working. it's after he — he alone — takes the sacrifice of hessel, and has 12 licenses in his pocket, he's searching for Tyler not out of suspicion but because Tyler dumped him and he wants to find him. in the book the narrator is much more on board. during his search there's a sense that he's starting to realize, doesn't want to realize, and then the bartender spills it all and he hates it. he hates it because it means Tyler isn't real. and when Tyler establishes the new status quo, there's a distinct sense that the part the narrator hates the most is simply that Tyler isn't real. yes, all the project mayhem is horrifying he guesses, but that pales in comparison to the fact that Tyler isn't real and he can't unlearn that. And Tyler says he won't disappear, but he won't see him either, and that's when the narrator gets all pissy.