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Summary: It's on top of the Bible and Nietzche on my bookshelf.
Review: You haven't read a book like this. And you really, really need to. Blame the millenium for the rash of New Age Thought books out of late (Celestine Prophecy, Ishmael, etc.), all promising to explain to you in narrative exactly why your life isn't turning out the way you thought it would. Fight Club isn't at risk of being lumped in with that lot, mainly because so many people who read this are going to misunderstand it.(hence movie reviews dismissing it as pointless homoerotic violence.) The medium is the message here, and to that end Chuck reinvents the concept of prose narrative. The storyline is less a narrative than it is a mural; a series of images and vignettes layered one on top of another to reveal the meanings "under and behind and inside" the mind-crushing mundanity of this, the American Nightmare. Each event, each dialogue, each bone-crunching scene is focused like a magnifying glass in the sun, like tallows in boiling fat, until pure meaning comes out. This prose isn't flowery, it's visceral. The ideas, consequently, hit you like a foot to the gut when you've never been in a fight. It changes the way you see things. It affects your with ideas you hadn't thought of, and wish you had.
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Summary: C'mon...Just try it.
Review: The most frequent complaint I've heard about this book is that its too short. Well, lemme tell you something...Long Books Get Old. I don't care if you've read a solid gold, Godfatheresque book, at some point during your reading you lost interest, if only for a fleeting second. I won't lie, I went through that fleeting moment in Fight Club, but believe you me...it was very freaking fleeting, man. Very, very fleeting. Very. This book's genius is in its conciseness, and in the end you will think, "Damn. How did Chuck do that in so few pages?"
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Summary: Because you owe it to yourself.
Review: The main reason for reading this book...because you owe it to yourself. This is a beautifuly written peice in which the usual unmelodic tone of our culture is conviniantly tossed aside. The narrarator, along with his "sidekick", ushers the reader through an examination of his or hers on life. Maybe the books success should be measured in the time spent by the readers as they try to make amends with their own pshycotic minds. And after all, Socrates himself says "the unexamined life is not worth living."
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Summary: HOLY CRAP
Review: This book really made look at things a lot differently. Especially after watching the movie then reading the book. It helped me understand what Ed Norton was going through and the other ways of how to make napalm which were not mentioned in the movie. It changes your outlook on life and you view things in a different perspective. I've watched Fight Club at least seven times, and after you really understand what happens, it scares you. I sometimes feel the way Ed Norton does throughout the movie. Watch the movie first, then read the book. THEY ARE THE MOST INCREDIBLE PIECES OF ART EVER CREATED.
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Summary: A Psychological enigma of the dark underworld of the mind
Review: I am a teenager and school forces you to read and I gradually became detested by the thought of reading, although when i read Fight Club, I was amazed, i finally found a novel that not can i only relate to but a novel that keeps me thinking and holds me wonderingg about our sanity. It leaves us all in a trans of what we think is reality. Fight Club will mess with your head, (that's the best part) and it will make you think. Buy this book as soon as you can, you will never regret it.
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Summary: Palahnuik Gets It Right
Review: After seeing the movie based on the book, I didn't wait more than an hour to grab the book. A quick 208 page read, where everything the movie couldn't explain in detail is revealed. Once finishing, I sat down and sighed thinking "This is one damn good book." Ever since, I've been a cult follower of Palahnuik.Fight Club is a blazingly fast novel focusing on a depressed man just sick with his life and wants to change it, somehow. While on this "spiritual" journey he meets Tyler Durden, a guy who ends up being everything the narrator wanted to be. From there, the narrator explains his rollercoaster ride of a life in great detail and examines exactly what life meant to him. All in all, Fight Club is a masterpiece, despite anything other people say. It is well-written, engaging, and thought-provoking to say the least. The book compared to the movie? The book is certainly better, especially the ending. The last five pages make much more sense than the movie's ending. Additionally, Palahnuik proves his own secular answer of "Where is God in all this mess?" with this last chapter. Fight Club's characters are some of the most intriguing people I have read about. The narrator, Marla, and Tyler all have their personality quirks that draws in readers in a couple words. Philosophies toward consumerism, materialism, and life are not as prevalent as one might think. But its always a good thing to read a book twice to get much more out of it.
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Summary: I am Jack's Book Review of Fight Club`
Review: I decided to read Fight Club after I watched the film version. I became so enthralled with the movie version that I had to read the book. Fight Club takes a satirical look at society today. Chuck Palahniuk does a wonderful job writing a story filled with imagery and symbolism alon caused me as a reader to enjoy this book immensely. The one downfall that comes to my mind is if you have watched the movie then you know what is going to happen. The story is very fast paced and it easily becomes a quick read. I have never read any book quite like this one.
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Summary: Better than the movie
Review: Well, like probably everybody who is considering the book, I saw the movie "fight club" first. Let me add that it was a good movie. Unfortunantly, even after seeing it a couple times, it left me with a few questions. The book clears that all up, and puts more detail into it. After reading the book, the movie makes way more sense. It makes the movie way better. But the book is so good. I finished it in 2 days. That good. If you have seen the movie, this will just make it greater, and if you haven't seen the movie, go see it then read this book. Don't do it the other way around.
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Summary: This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time
Review: Fight Club, a great novel created by a man with an extreme imagination and a great sense of reality. The realizations that Mr.Chuck Palahniuk presents through Tyler Durden's doctrine, are day-to-day realities. The assumption of Fight Club to be a joke and not more than a crazy man's time wasting duty is an error. Reality is presented in this novel with a touch of humor, or at least that is what we think at first. Once you decide to read the novel, you take serious concious of what Tyler Durden really represents. Then, and only then, you can sit and realize that there's a Tyler Durden living inside each and everyone of us. Is it good? Is it bad? Forget about duality, forgert about right or wrong; forget about it all!!! "There is a beast man that should be exercised, not exorcised." -Anton Szandor LaVey
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Summary: Fight Club
Review: After watching the movie Fight Club. I looked around amazon and saw that it was a book before a flick, like most good movies are... I was so intrueged by the FC philosophy and added Skitso twist that i bought the book. It was indeed a good read, however i really do wish i read the book first. I dont think i got the true aspect of it. If you heard about this movie, read the book first. During the whole reading period i was always compairing and i knew to much about the story line to really enjoy it(ppl who read the book or saw the movie feel me on that). Well im not a writer so thats it folks.
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