Fight Club. It wasn’t fun to read it felt like the author was ploying with me trying purposefully to confuse me to a point where it forced me to become disinterested. However with the movie i was captivated every second. The book’s attempt to obscure and mystify the reader might have been an intentional stylistic choice, but for me, it didn’t translate well.
Random Hearts
Wonderful movie–Harrison Ford is a cop who only finds out his wife was cheating on him when she and her boyfriend are killed in a plane crash (as I recall, the boyfriend bought the tickets so it’s reported that he and his wife, who’s a politician, were killed–which is a surprise to the politician as well). Ford and the lady meet and become friends, pretty much just trying to help each other get through this and there’s another storyline with Ford and his partner (Dennis Haysbert) trying to figure out who’s trying to kill one or both of them. Very good film, good story. I picked up the book after I saw the movie and I don’t think I even got two chapters into it. Completely different story…would probably be classified as literary fiction (aka “We don’t know what the hell it is”).