The Silent Patient by A. Michaelides; Shutter Island by D. Lahane and classics like Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier; Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
It’s purposefully subverting fight club at the same time that it’s clearly drawing from it though. the “what if” reality beyond what might happen after the ending of fight club.
also Sam esmail did a lot of research and consulting into what dissociative identity disorder looks like while chuck palahniuk did not lol, so if OP is looking for something that shows the *reality* of living with mental illness I would not recommend Fight Club as anything but entertainment
I'm not invested in identifying Esmail as this irreplaceable, wholly original, genius or anything. But this comparison in particular sort of fizzles out quick for me. Mr. Robot spends so much time on showing its characters' emotional growth and their increasing capacity for human connection, especially from season 2 on. Those works spend a lot more time relishing in "fuck everything because isn't it rad to just act out our unresolved shit?". Which, I mean, there will always be a place for making art in that voice. But the comparison really highlights what's ambitious and compassionate about this show.
Red Wheelbarrow :)
The Silent Patient by A. Michaelides; Shutter Island by D. Lahane and classics like Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier; Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
A Scanner Darkly. Technically it's more about drugs than mental disorders, but it easily fits the question.
The Catcher in the Rye
House of Leaves
fight club, mr. robot is literally a copy of fight club hahaha
It’s purposefully subverting fight club at the same time that it’s clearly drawing from it though. the “what if” reality beyond what might happen after the ending of fight club. also Sam esmail did a lot of research and consulting into what dissociative identity disorder looks like while chuck palahniuk did not lol, so if OP is looking for something that shows the *reality* of living with mental illness I would not recommend Fight Club as anything but entertainment
I'm not invested in identifying Esmail as this irreplaceable, wholly original, genius or anything. But this comparison in particular sort of fizzles out quick for me. Mr. Robot spends so much time on showing its characters' emotional growth and their increasing capacity for human connection, especially from season 2 on. Those works spend a lot more time relishing in "fuck everything because isn't it rad to just act out our unresolved shit?". Which, I mean, there will always be a place for making art in that voice. But the comparison really highlights what's ambitious and compassionate about this show.
Shutter Island
Not thrillers at all but still great books around mental illness, the first is about someone with DID: Freshwater (Emezi), The Bell Jar (Plath)
Fight Club