They cling to it with nowhere better to go. While Talbott Reynolds does seem to be an omnipotent force driving everything forward, even he doesn’t take up a central role in the plot.Ī happy past cripples people. More often than not, we’ve seen protagonists from him who were downtrodden outcasts trying to break free from the various types of oppression they experience, but in this case, I don’t think there is even a protagonist to actually speak of. While I think we all at least expect transgressive fiction authors to defy the norms and conventions we’ve grown so accustomed to, Chuck Palahniuk‘s approach to telling this story certainly takes a bit more adjustment than expected, or at least such was my case. What will America end up looking like when the many branches of its madness are led to their logical conclusions? What will be left of it when the balances of power inevitably end up shifting? Study of the Social Mass in Adjustment Day As clueless politicians are on the verge of kick-starting the third world war, those beneath them only dream of clawing their way to the top.Īdjustment Day will come, and there is no stopping this fact. Unfortunately, the amount of reasonable people or the power they have decrease in the diametrically opposite direction, and a national crisis threatening to spill over to international proportions begins to brew. As more and more people become acquainted with it, the level of chaos just keeps on rising. This change was sparked with the publication of a mysterious book which provides people with the necessary instructions on how to behave during the coming event, sharing gems of wisdom such as urging people to use their smiles as bulletproof vests. We are presented with a wide number of narratives taking place in a world where a certain event is bound to change everything: the titular “Adjustment Day”. The story of this novel is, in a sense, rather vague to fully encompass in a brief summary. Recently, he published Adjustment Day, and if nothing else, it felt to me like a welcome return to his roots and the form we know him in. What I’m about to say is more a reflection of what I gather is general opinion rather than my own, but it seems to me Chuck Palahniuk had fallen out of favour with many of his long-time readers in recent years, at least when compared to his status two decades ago.
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