So, Callan, my question today as we're covering Fight Club is, what would be our strategies to

beat the other one in a fight?

I would rub myself with hamburgers just to repulse you.

My skin burns like quirl grabbing hairy.

I would give you the most genuine compliment of your life,

and then when you're distracted trying to find the insult,

I would kick you in the face.

I would point in a random direction and be like,

look, it's world's famous economist,

and then as you turn your head, I push you off a cliff.

Hey, everyone.

If you want to know what hell is, imagine how many times a fan has told the author of

Fight Club what the first rule of Fight Club is. Today's book is Fight Club by Chuck Pollanick. I guess we

can't talk about it. And this is The Book Pile, a podcast about the best of books and the worst of

books. If this is your first time on the podcast, we're so happy you're here.

At this point, we've got over 200 episodes.

So if you're curious after listening to this one, we've covered a lot of the classics,

a lot of current hits, our own curated favorites.

Some of my favorite episodes are when we covered a Christmas Carol,

excellent advice for living, Stephen King's 112263, and our roasts of the Da Vinci Code,

Twilight, The Secret, and the novelization of Transformers. I'm Kellan Erskine. I'm a comic,

a father, and as a bald man rapidly approaching middle age, I was thinking

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