sooooooo some interesting tid bits

Shannon was the daughter of a farmer who feeds pigs old snacks to constipate them so that they are fatter than they should be. Shannon has an older brother named Shane who gets all of the attention because of a terrible incident: while burning trash, a full can of hairspray is thrown into the trash which explodes in his face. Shannon is angry because she feels neglected by her parents, and eventually in pursuit of attention she becomes a model. When becoming a model this is how she meets Brandy Alexander. Brandy Alexander, a pre-operative transsexual, has been shot, and asks Shannon to tell her life story. This causes Shannon to look back at how she first met Brandy. The police think that Shane's accident was abuse, but although they investigate the family, they find nothing and it becomes a cold case. Eventually, Shane gets a really bad sore throat. The parents assume that it is strep throat, but when the test results come back, it turns out he has gonorrhea the throat. I feel bad for Shane. :/ Well I also found some things online that might interest you.

1. A film based on the novel was planned to start filming in 2004. The filming was not done that year, and little has been said about the film since. Imdb.com has a link for Invisible Monsters saying it has gone into production as of 2006. It is said to be released in late 2008.

2. The band Panic at the Disco's song, Time to Dance, is based entirely on Invisible Monsters.

well thats all for now be back sunday or sometime monday

-- lkatz

Last Book :] Invisible Monsters

The story is about a girl who I learned later is named Shannon McFarland. The novel opens on the wedding day of Ms. Evie Cottrell, where her house has caught fire and is burning to the ground. Everything in the beginning pages from pages 12-63 are rough and jumpy and I believe that Palahniuk intended all the serious of events to be messed up. It feels as if I miss something when the Narrator Shannon keeps jumping from one event to another, but it all makes sense once I reread the passage. There are also very early signs of perception to connect with my essential question. On page 39 Shannon's fiancé was horrified when he saw the pictures of her face after the car accident. He says " Oh God! Oh sweet, sweet Jesus! Christ!" This obviously does not make Shannon feel great about what she looks like because only outsiders can perceive and look at her physical appearance. The hospital had taken away all the mirrors so that she would not have the time to look at herself, thus creating no self- perception for her at this point in the book. The perception that was given to her by her fiancé is not a very inviting one because even though the accident has totally disfigured her face he should not be so blunt and make her feel bad he should be telling her things like "your beautiful no matter" etc. Also another great quote dealing with perception is on page 40 and Shannon jumps to a time when she was with Manus, her fiancé, sailing and she needed sunglasses because she forgot hers. She says, "What I dont know is that one of my sunglass lenses is darker than the other, almost opaque. I'm blind in one eye because of this lens, and I have no depth perception. This could mean one of two things. The first thing it could mean is the literal meaning that she really has no depth perception at this point. The other thing it could mean is that this depth perception or these sunglasses could be alluding to the perception that she does not see about herself or maybe even Manus.

thats all for now be back Friday

-- L. katz

Chapters 29-31; things must come to an end sometime*

We are back at the beginning when Tyler aka the narrator has a gun in his mouth on top of a building and he is corrupted by Project Mayhem. He wants people to perceive him as this great Legend, that he's really not. All the support groups and Marla who perceive him as sick at first now know that he is not but they still all come to save him. The explosive in the building he is standing on never goes off so he pulls the trigger of the gun and doesn't die. He ends up in this mental hospital where people know him as Durden and tell him that Fight Club and Project Mayhem are still going according to plan. From this book I was able to realize that being someone your not whether it is your fault or not can end in really horrific circumstances. He ends up in a place that he should be, but all the chaos that he started and then wants to stop still continues and he wants nothing to do with it anymore. It is always better to try and have the best self perception of yourself and not to fall into consumerism because then the world and society will have bad perceptions of you and sometimes you cannot get your self out of the trap you created.

:] --- tah dah all finished

Chapters 25-27; some bad things for Durden

Tyler Durden aka. narrator finds out that he is perceived a modern legend. Everywhere he goes someone knows him and calls him sir. This is not good because he has DPD (disassociative psychological disorder) and the perception of him is good, but it should not be because he has two personalities and the one that he wants to win, no one will like or admire etc. (sometimes things and people are not what they seem to be) He comes to the realization that he (Tyler) was the one who blew up his own condo with everything he loved inside of it, because he knew how to make homemade bombs. He was the one who killed his boss by making an explosive inside a computer at his job. He felt terrible after realizing this and he wanted to get rid of the monster that he created. He went as himself to the original Fight Club that he started and tried to break it apart and the next day the men from the Club were coming after who they thought was Tyler and tried to cut of his testicles. Tyler told them that he would say" your making a big mistake" or that "he wasnt Tyler Durden." Tyler was really a lot smarter than the narrators original personality, because he knew everything that he would say and would dissuade his fight club guys to believe what Tyler and not the narrator said. I feel bad for him because he or Tyler has brought him so low he does not know what do but some how he ends up back in his condo with his testicles still in place and he needs to get rid or Tyler right away. Marla's perception of the narrator finally changes. They have a crazy argument in th cancer support group and now he is going to kill Tyler Durden. He fights everyone in the original Fight Club that he built and wants to die and get rid or Tyler. Everyone beats him to a bloody pulp. I feel soooooooo super bad for him. I can only imagine what other people are thinking when he does this. They must think he's crazy.

Chapters 21-24; Tyler Durden the one and only !

So life goes on and he continues working and the Tyler's monkeys are burning their fingerprints away with the lye they use to make the soap. And they are all shaving their heads for some reason. The narrator is kind of lost because of his insomnia and he travels while he is at work for his company to find a fight club or Tyler in the cities he travels to. Everyone calls him sir, when he goes into bars and pubs and he doesn't realize why. His insomnia enables him to sleep while he really is not sleeping or so he thinks. A strange bartender knows him in Seattle and he does not know how until the guy tells him that his name is Tyler Durden. DUM DUM DUM! (evil laugh). Everything that Tyler has does the lye kiss that burned his hand Project Mayhem and Fight Club all the illegal things it was all the narrator who did it. Tyler is his other personality. This is all psychological and really pertains to may essential question because my question has to do with what in the human psyche or brain triggers peoples perception of themselves or others? He creates this other personality to get away from the pain of his terrible job or his fatherless life and get away from the insomnia and the girlfriend -less life that he lives. I feel terrible for him, this definitely hits my pathos. :} Now Tyler finds out/ aka he realizes that he has talked about Tyler behind Tyler's back and now Tyler has to disappear because he was not supposed to do this. The reason for the insomnia problem is they when he thinks that he falls asleep, he does, but his other personality Tyler wakes up and he does his jobs and runs around and this is why he is alway tired. He was disassociative personality disorder. I learned about this in psychology last semester with Mrs. Mastromauro. People create them to deal with pain that they suffer from inside and outside. It is like the movive Sybil. If you have never seen it you should deff. rent it. When he tells Marla about this problem she thinks it is cool and she has no real responsiveness to it because she does not believe him. Finally he tries as himself to stop the fight club: the original one that he started and the men look at him and kick him out even though he tries to tell them that he is Tyler Durden.

- - - :] almost done

Chapters 17-20; Project Mayhem and Fight Club Post Consumer waste generation

There are only certain types and amounts of people who are able to join Project Mayhem. It becomes bigger as more and more men become restless with Fight Club. Tyler gets the men to start making tons and tons and tons of the soap for him and they have no idea what they are doing. What they are doing is making Tyler money because he sells the soap for 20$ a bar. I think he is a scum bag having all these men do his dirty work for him. I feel happy for the narrator because he begins to talk to Marla again because Tyler is never around anymore. I wonder if he appears to Marla that he is the biggest dirt bag ever?!?!?!

The narrator gets kidnapped and they speak Tyler dogma and he really does not want to listen to it. Tyler at this point is perceived as a God-like figure or a Legend. Tyler has no real idea of this but the narrator begins to feel the effects of it. There are two new rules for FC #1 no one is ever the center of Fight Club and #2 Fight Club will always be free to get into. The mischief and the misinformation committees of Project Mayhem make this insane bumper stickers "I drive better when I'm drunk." It is funny but Project Mayhem is going to make the people of the world realize what is happening and they will perceive things differently in their lives. The narrator realizes that his perception of what Tyler was, was incorrect and now it is leading him to his downfall because he is one of Tyler's "monkeys".

The reason for Project Mayhem is because Tyler is tired of people perceiving people in different ways because of what they wear or how they look or do they have the Gucci bag etc. He thinks that the "young generation is chasing cars and clothes they do not need and are working jobs that they hate to buy the things that they do not need." He sees the reality behind the society today. Everyone is driven by materialistic things and he wants to create Project Mayhem to destroy everything and have everyone start over so that God will grant redemption to everyone. He is so weird. Tyler also makes the narrator kill twelve men, but they do not get killed he just takes their licenses. This is getting too crazy for me, but the self perception and others peoples perception of them is fantastic in this novel.

Chapters 13-16 Project Mayhem, Marla, quits job so much !

He has too many problems of his own like his bills and job and his insomnia, but for some reason he wants to help Marla. I do not think he should help her because she is a b***h to him. He also talks a lot about death and Marla wants to die throughout these few chapters and I think she has a really bad self image and she should take more care of herself. If she did this she would feel a lot better about herself and peoples perception of her appearance would be much higher. On a sad note the narrator's condo is blown up and I think Tyler did it so that the narrator would move in with him, but I think it is a real scummy thing to do to someone you know. Both him and Tyler quit their jobs and are able to open more fight clubs and now there is about 23 three of them. A quote on page 114 says, "Tyler's words coming . . . nice person." He knows that he used to be a nice person and Tyler has changed him for the worst and now he talks and thinks like Tyler and now the whole would sees him in a different light, but I do not think that he really cares. Project Mayhem is then created because the narrator and Tyler are getting bored of the Fight Club. Rule #1 don't ask questions
#2 don't ask questions
#3 no excuses
#4 No lies
#5 You have to trust Tyler

These are some seriously confusing chapters but wait until you see what happens next. :]