Fight Club

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Summary: FIght CLub is this izzal shizzat
Review: this is the coolest fast read ever written

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Summary: Chuck Palahniuk is Cool
Review: This is one of the really good books I have read although all of Chuck's books are really interesting.

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Summary: My eventual review.
Review: I contemplated writing a review on this CD for quite some time, trying to think best of how to say something good about Palahniuk's style that hadn't already been said. Really all I can say is, simply put, it is dramatic and witty. So far this is the only book I've read of Palahniuk's, but I must say if you are a fan of funny, dark, satirical, or satisfying-to-your-mind novels, then you will love this book. I did. So check it out, or if you can't get this book, check out Choke or Survivor.

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Summary: Fight Club vs. Grendel
Review: Has anyone here read Grendel AS WELL AS Fight Club? The two draw remarkable parallels when one looks at the underlying themes. Nihilism and the style of writing and humor in these two books are what make them identical. Anyone who has read either book should definitly read the other. By the way, Grendel is written John Gardner, and it is Beowulf told from Grendel's point of view.

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Summary: wow worthy
Review: "fight club" is an amazing mixture of dark, sarcastic humor and the human spirit.

i saw the movie & immeditelly ran over to the library to check the book out. while they end differently, both are amazing works, however the book, as in most cases, is better.

its disturbing and chaotic and beautiful and i suggest to everyone to buy a copy of it yourself. (its on MY wish list!)

"i felt like destroying something beautiful"

ps. for those of you, like me, who go crazy when the narrorator in a book is never given a name, i'll do you favor. the narrorators name is JACK

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Summary: Forget about the movie- this is where it's at.
Review: While the film Fight Club, based on Chuck Palahniuk's novel, was great- like most cases in which a book is made into a movie, the book is _better_.

Providing more context, more analogies, and a better view into Project Mayhem, this book surpasses the movie in almost every description and event. It's worth the read, and worth forking over the money to buy your own copy.

From the book:

"About my boss, Tyler tells me, if I'm really angry, I should go to the post office and fill out a change-of-address card and have all his mail forwarded to Rugby, North Dakota.

Another thing I could do, Tyler tells me, is I could drive to my boss's house some night and hook a hose to an outdoor spigot. Hook the hose to a hand pump, and I could inject the house plumbing with a change of industrial dye. Red or blue or green, and wait to see how my boss looks the next day. Or, I could just sit in the bushes and pump the hand pump until the plumbing was superpressurized to 110 psi. This way, when someone goes to flush the toilet, the toilet tank will explode. At 150 psi, if someone turns on the shower, the water pressure will blow off the shower head, strip the threads, blam, the shower head turns into a mortar shell."

"Tyler asked what I was really fighting.

What Tyler says about the crap and the slaves of history, that's how I felt. I wanted to destroy something beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see.

I wanted the whole world to hit bottom.

Pounding that kid, I really wanted to put a bullet between the eyes of every endangered panda that wouldn't screw to save its species and every whale or dolphin that gave up and ran itself aground. "

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Summary: Started Fast and Took Off From There
Review: I went to the library to see if they had Lullaby available yet. They didn't. So merely to get acquainted with Chuck Palahniuk, I checked out Fight Club.

I had no interest in seeing the movie when it came out. I did end up seeing part of it (and being taken in from about halfway into the movie) because my friend's daughter was watching it while I happened to be over. So I was sort of familiar with the story, but didn't know what to expect from the book.

I was blown away. I read the book in the space of four days. I couldn't put it down. It was everything it promised on the back cover: dark, nihilistic, and funny. Laugh-out-loud funny.

The book left me thinking: who is the most disturbed? The narrator, Tyler Durden, or Chuck Palahniuk?

I can't wait to see the movie (all of it from start to finish) and to read all of CP's other books.

The first rule of Fight Club is to read Fight Club.

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Summary: the original Fight Club fills in the blanks.
Review: I am a huge fan of the movie, so much so that after many of my viewings, I will get into long discussions about the motivations of the character, the intention of the film-maker, and the point of the film. A friend recommended I read the book and get the author's viewpoints directly.

Reading the book may be a bit irritating if you have seen the movie many times, as the movie liberally used dialogue from the book. However, many differences that make this book worth reading.

For one, Marla is a more prominent character. While the movie portrays Marla as secondary - a distraction from the pursuits of manhood, she is a central figure in the book. She is the reason why things happen.

Lines in the movie that may have seemed like non-sequiturs are given their due in the book.

The ending is far more appropriate, and I will not discuss it here. I will say that I have seen both alternate endings to the film and I prefer the book's ending to all of them.

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Summary: I am Travis' Review.
Review: This is the the story of Tyler Durden. I would tell you about the rest of it, but I don't want to give it away. I recently read this book, after first seeing the movie. The movie was a good try at translating the book to film. As is usually the case, the book is even better than the movie though. I really like Chuck Palahniuk's style of writing a lot - it's to the point. No flowery prose here.

My only downside to reading this was that I saw the movie first, which prevented me from forming my own view of the characters - I kept picturing Brad Pitt, Ed Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, and Meat Loaf. I guess I'll have to go read Chuck Palahniuk's other books before they make movies of them. So if you haven't seen the movie, read this first.

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Summary: The first rule is you don't talk about it
Review: Now this is a very very very very very very VERY difficult thing to review. Enough people have read this book to decide whether they are going to be outraged by it or whether they'd rather just join their local chapter of Fight Club. If you haven't heard of this phenomenon, I can't think of what I would say here that would make you join up. But, I'll try.

The book is about an insomniac who meets an eccentric soap salesman disconcertingly called Tyler Durden. The two of them become close friends and their hobby of beating the living s**t out of each other becomes very popular among the white and blue collars of this world. Thus are a ring of underground clubs called "Fight Club" born. Our hero is living his life for the first time. But somewhere between Tyler taking things too far, his lingering feelings of materialism and a girl named Marla Singer, the protagonist finds himself in way over his head and sees no escape in sight.

People don't join Fight Club because they want to hurt people. They join Fight Club because they can't punch their bosses. They can't punch the president. But they gotta punch something. It's freedom. It's getting back to our basest instincts to a time when we didn't have to wear a tie to work. When we didn't have to wear a shirt to work. It's anarchist, it's revolutionary, and it's probably just the wakeup call you need. Between this and the movie (read seperate review) I know I have a whole new perspective on life.

But remember, the first rule of Fight Club is that you do not talk about Fight Club.

And the second rule of Fight Club is, you do NOT talk about Fight Club.

The third rule...