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Summary: Fight Club
Review: Definently one of the great novels of this decade. It shows truly how tied we are to our jobs consumer lifestyles. fast, and thought provocking a must read for just about anyone.
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Summary: Chuck at his finest
Review: Fight club is a fast but exciting read about what we do to feel alive. In a world of excessive consumerism, there is very little emotion. Tyler durden is the split personality of our protagonist who leads him ultimately through a world of real emotions. These emotions are achieved through after hour boxing matches and a plan to destroy structered society. However, the protagonist quickly finds that he is not as free as he thought, and is now being controlled by the other side of the spectrum. AMUST READ!
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Summary: Must have
Review: If you love the movie that was robbed at the acadmey awards get it on DVD, VHS, and on book . The dialoge is awesome and you can learn so much from it. This book can change your life. It sure changed mine."His name was Robert Paulson"
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Summary: Brilliantly-wrought
Review: With _Fight Club_, Palahniuk has given us a truly brilliant novel. His writing is edgy, but not abrasive, and the story is dark, but somehow not depressing. I read the book before seeing the movie, and didn't see the film for some time, as I was afraid it wouldn't do the book justice - I was pleasantly surprised, though, and really recommend the movie to anyone who enjoyed the novel (and vice-versa.) On its face, the ideas in this story aren't hugely original - schizophrenia, underground fights, et cetera - but Palahniuk has woven everything into a finished product that is amazingly creative. I can honestly say that I didn't figure out who or how Tyler Durden was until very near the end of the book, and then I had to grin about how cleverly Palahniuk crafted this character. There are portions of the book which are very funny, those which are seriously angry, and those which reach out and grab the reader by the short hairs due to their sheer realism. Then there are the really strange bits, such as the main character's addiction to fatal disease support groups - which gets only weirder as we meet Marla, who is *also* addicted to them; who'd have thought there were two such people in the world? (Answer, Chuck Palahniuk, of course.) Yes indeedy, this novel has it all - explosions, fighting, soap-making, Ikea porn, mustard-collecting, and possibly the downfall of many major credit card corporations. A very entertaining, bizarrely-twisted world.
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Summary: This is How I Met Tyler Durden
Review: After watching a great movie called "Fight Club", I was amazed. I was determined to find out how such an idea came to a man. I thought I would start my journey by reading the book. I could have never accounted for what lay inside it's rigid spine. The story centers around an insomniac whose life becomes meaningless. Going through life half asleep and half awake, he meets regularly with a terminally ill support group for aid in sleeping. The action begins when he meets a man named Tyler Durden on a business trip. Upon returning home, he finds his condo blown to bits. His only choice then becomes to call his new friend, Tyler, for shelter. After a few drinks in a bar, Tyler and the main character begin to fight for fun. This comes as amusment to the both of them and begin doing it on a regular basis. Slowly the main character slips into the realm of empathy. He begins to ignore his job and personal belongings on his trip to hitting rock bottom. The friendly fighting between Tyler and the main character develops into a club, a fight club. On every Saturday night, men meet to beat each other senseless. As the story moves on, the fight club evolves into something none of them could have expected. This book is amazing. The plot is very complex and intricate, and at times random. The characters offer different sides of humanity and society. The author writes the dialogue with clever aphorisms such as "On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero," The book was a wonder to read, and although at times I knew what was coming, it still never fell short of greatness. I reccommend this book(or movie) to all book lovers.
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Summary: how could you rate this less than a five?
Review: Before I watched the movie, I thought the plot sounded stupid. How could I be so wrong. Fight Club is the best movie of all time. It is much more then a fighting movie, and anyone with any depth whatsoever can see that. After I watched the movie countless times, I read the book. It is even better than the movie! The commentary and the tone that Palahniuk use is so awesome. I could read it indefinitely forever. [....]
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Summary: A great book...
Review: "All a gun does is focus the explosion in one direction." How can a book be so crazy and yet be so right in so many places. Chris Palahniuk certainly hit a masterpiece with this one. THis is his treatise on how to live or waste one's life. Controversial for many reasons, this book grabs you from the start and then starts shaking you till you hate the life you live and then he breaks the whole mirage with another sweep. A perfect read for a person who has felt like a small cog in a big machine, understanding your part and nothing of the bigger picture, A Space Monkey...
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Summary: Read this book, Space Monkey
Review: Be prepared to have your mind blown. Chuck Palahniuk writes with the intensity of an adhd kid on speed, listening to Leonard Cohen and Joy Division on repeat, while watching Natural Born Killers on fast forward. ...
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Summary: Great Read!
Review: Fight Club is a wonderful and quick read for those looking for a book for the afternoon, but it is also packed with a lot of action and ideas. Palahniuk packs in a lot of ideas in this short novel with clear, succinct, sharp writing, and he taps so well into the mind of an alienated individual searching for purpose and personal connection in a consumer driven, drone driven society. Fight Club is well worth reading for anyone looking for clear, entertaining fiction. If you've seen the movie and loved it, the book is worth reading since it has some details that the movie didn't and possesses a slightly different tone, such as with Marla's relationship to the narrator. I found that there was a much more menacing air surrounding Tyler and the narrator that wasn't in the movie.
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Summary: An exhilirating read
Review: Usually great books are either turned into mediocre films or else great films are made from mediocre books (and we won't even get into the sordid details of the novelizations). Fight Club is one of the rare instances where a great film was made from a great book. It is perhaps unfair to mention the film version while discussing the book as they are actually two very different animals. (And animal is the right word -- perhaps uniquely amongst contemporary novelists, Chuck Palahniuk writes novels that seem to live in the reader's hands, often threatening at any minute to lunge for the throat.) While most of the film's incidents are in the book and much of the razor-sharp dialouge is reproduced directly from the page, the book actually has a far greater satiric edge than the film. Whereas the film used the story as a celebration of nihilism, the book is far too self-aware to allow itself to truly celebrate anything. As such, it becomes less a call to action and more a devastatingly real portrait of a society that has become so commercialized and codified that even the once primal act of revolution becomes just another submission to pop culture. Fight Club is the story of an unnamed narrator, an insomniac yuppie who spends his days helping insurance companies get out of having to pay their claims. He wanders through a meaningless life until he discovers the emotional release of attending therapy groups for people suffering from various deadly (and rather embarressing) diseases -- all of which the narrator pretends to have. When the arrival of another "faker" (the wonderfully dark Marla Singer, whose role is far less central in the book than in the film), the narrator finds even the shallow comfort of testicular cancer self-help groups has been taken away from him. Luckily for him, he happens to meet Tyler Durden around this time. And it is Tyler who introduces him to the concept of fighting. What starts as a few rounds in a bar parking lot soon transforms into the nationwide movement known as Fight Club. Every night, yuppies gather together and proceed to beat each other up and get in touch with the pure destructive instinct that society has forced them to suppress. From this violent but relatively benign concept, Tyler sets out to build up an even more extreme movement and our narrator finds his own life suddenly spiraling out of control. To go into any greater details would be unfair to those who have seen neither the film nor the book. All that need be said is that the story never goes where you expect it too and the final twists -- while seeming a bit outlandish at first -- ultimately make a great deal of somewhat sickening sense. As complex as the plot eventually becomes, Palahnuik handles it all with a sparse, deceptively calm style that makes this book the literal epitome of a "page turner" -- once you start reading, you are hooked and it is truly impossible to exit the hauntingly and humorously dark world he's created until you reach the end. Palahnuik proves himself to be an admirably subtle humorist and perhaps the funniest parts of the book comes from the reader's sudden realization that Fight Club has eventually become not so much a group of guerilla freedom fighters in the culture wars but instead simply a twisted mirror image of the weepy self-help groups that it seems to stand against. While the film's final twist remains the same in the book, the end results are far more different. While I personally favor the film's ending, both book and film build up to a strong conclusion that will stick with the reader long after completion. Both the film and the book are truly original works of American Art and to see or read one without the other is to miss out on two exhilirating, similar but ultimately quite different experiences.
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