Oh, how cool would this be if it was real? A children’s book version of Fight Club?
The concept is delightfully absurd, which is surely why author Chuck Palahniuk thought it would be fun to read from his new venture — which doesn’t really exist, in case you were about to click over to Amazon — in a video for Mashable.
Trying to reach out to a different market wouldn’t be that much of a stretch. Many established authors (James Patterson, Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, to name a few) have written books for the young adult market or adapted previous properties and characters for those audiences.
Actually, a YA version of Fight Club doesn’t seem so implausible. Of course, it would probably make Palahniuk’s regular readership, who love his dark, twisted commentaries on society, go crazy. (Those same people would surely snap up copies, however.)
Fight Club 4 Kids is most certainly not available at a bookstore or online bookseller near you. You’ll have to adapt your own version for your children. While you’re at it, come up with some other popular modern novels that are terrible ideas for children’s books.
[Mashable]
