Norman Ohler
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But you could also be on the wrong one and then write 200 pages and you just have to throw it away.
And probably he did a lot of that also, you know.
It's an amphetamine book.
But it's a great book.
Also, there was not so much available.
That's true.
Alcohol, of course.
Nicotine.
Coffee.
Yeah, he's a great writer.
Fight Club influenced me quite a bit.
I think the novel is even better maybe than the movie.
The movie's great.
Yeah, it's Ulysses by James Joyce.
Ulysses is good, but only when you're like in your early 20s living in New York and you're writing your first book and you just have taken LSD.
Oh, nice.
Then I read it and then it opened.
It made sense?
Well, it's just a very experimental novel, so it opens up.
You don't have to understand everything, but it shows you that there's many different ways of telling a tale.