Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted at The Purple Booker.
Anyone can play along by doing the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
“Warning: If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don’t you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can’t think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it? Do you read everything you’re supposed to read? Do you think every thing you’re supposed to think? Buy what you’re told to want? Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you’re alive. If you don’t claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned.”
(~Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, Kindle Edition, 1996)
[Note: Ok, it was more than just two sentences, but it was too good to chunk it out. Everybody has watched the movie, not everybody read the book (including me, until today), and this is a pity, because it’s powerful, at times stunning, and always insightful. With great quotes too – writers among us could learn one or two things about dialogues and characterisation.]
PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Teaser Tuesdays post, or share your ‘teasers’ in a comment here and/or in The Purple Booker.
I’m a bit of a freak. I’ve read the books a couple of times but have never seen the movie! Hope you love the book as much as I did!
As a matter of fact, they’re quite close – amazingly close! 🙂
Wow – you’re right about the prose – it really smacks you between the eyes, doesn’t it? Many thanks for sharing, Steph:). My TT this week is Japanese epic fantasy about dragons… https://sjhigbee.wordpress.com/2017/01/10/teaser-tuesday-10th-january-2016/
Ohh, I’m going to love that one – going to check it straight away!
Great teaser! I’ve yet to read the book. Seen the movie though:)
My TT from Carpe Bead’em
If you liked the movie, you’ll love the book!
Cool, I must read this book! (I can’t believe I’ve never read it)
Incredible, isn’t it? It was exactly what I thought when picking it up a few days ago in my sister’s living room 😀
That’s an intense Teaser! Although this isn’t the type of book I usually read, I’m definitely intrigued.
My Tuesday post features MOONRISE.
I think there’s something interesting for anybody there.
I’m one of those who saw the movie but never read the book. That may change. Here’s my Tuesday Teaser:
“They needed to know, she told him, who would work for them, which meant who would work against German interests in Roumania. Before the war, the operation had been run as the Roumanian branch of a Swiss comapny — DeHaas AG — with a local representative, who paid people and accepted information, but it was known that DeHaas AG was Ivan Kostyka.” BLOOD OF VICTORY by Alan Furst
Mmm, it sounds like a good war book. I like it, thanks for sharing, Cinda!
It’s historical espionage set at the beginning of WWII when certain people in Europe were trying to marshall forces to prevent the Germans from getting the oil they wanted. Alan Furst has a wonderful way of capturing the times and showing how ordinary people made a difference…or not. He sugar coats nothing.
That’s definitively something I need to read – also professionally speaking. Thanks again for the heads up!