Action
"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."
~Leonardo da VinciFight Club
"How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?"
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk is a 1996 novel that chronicles the experiences of an anonymous protagonist who is struggling with a growing discomfort with consumerism as a way of life, and with changes in the state of masculinity in American culture. To overcome this, he establishes an underground fighting club as radical psychotheraphy.
In the 1999 David Fincher adaptation, an office employee (Edward Norton) and a soap salesman (Brad Pitt) build a global organization to help vent male aggression.
Adventure
"Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to."
~J. R. R. Tolkien
Into the Wild
"Your great adventure on Alaska."
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer is a 1996 non-fiction book about Christopher McCandless' adventures on his way to Alaska. After his college graduation, Christopher gives up everything and hitchhikes across the wilderness, meeting new people and learning more about himself along the way. It is an expansion of Krakauer's 9,000-word article, "Death of an Innocent", which appeared in the January 1993 issue of Outside.
Later in 2007 it was adapted into a movie, directed by Sean Penn and starring Emile Hirsch.
The Lord of the Rings
The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien is a 1955 epic fantasy novel about a young Hobbit named Frodo that has been given an ancient ring and must journey to Mordor to destroy it and save Middle-Earth.
The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's earlier 1937 fantasy novel The Hobbit.
It was adapted to the screen in 2001as a trilogy directed by Peter Jackson.
Original Cover Designs by J.R.R. Tolkien:
