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Summary: Great Book, but Movie is better
Review: This is a fabulous book written in a very unique style. This is a short book that reads very quickly. The only reason I did not give this book a 5 star rating is becuase I thought the movie was better. I imagine that if I had read this book before seeing the movie,I would have thought this book was a masterpeice. Sadly the book does not quite live up to the excellent adaptation of the movie. I look forward to reading Palahniuk's next book.
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Summary: My favorite novel
Review: Jack is your average white-collar consumerist American. He goes to work everyday so he can buy crap that he doesn't need, in order to increase his social status. He has trouble sleeping, he feels as if something is missing in his life.
One day he meets Tyler Durden. Tyler is the incarnation of MacGuyver if only he had been working for the bad guys. He could make a bomb out of an orange juice carton if he had to. Tyler and Jack end up starting a ring of underground boxing clubs filled with people trying to fill the void in their lives through acts of self-destruction and terrorism. Everyone, I mean EVERYONE, is in on Fight Club.
As things progress, "Project Mayhem" begins to spin out of control and Jack makes a startling discovery about his relationship to Tyler.
"Fight Club" is a well-needed foray into nilihistic philosophies, a no-holds-barred look at who we are in this faceless consumerist society. Its concepts will shock you, but as you read you may very well find yourself nodding your head in agreement on some other level. The subjects in this book are ripe for discussion.
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Summary: Fight Club, Is is Analogical, psychological or just a book
Review: I am a huge fan of the movie Fight Club and I wanted to read the original book to see if there was much of a difference and well..... its a lot different. Anyone who reads the book will be amazed at it's writing. Palahniuk has made a book about a normal person into an analogical masterpeice. Throughout much of the book the author puts analogies in and its just to increase the understanding of the main characters actions. It's also a psychological masterpiece it brings in to the mind of a anarchist who doesnt realize who he really is. the book is magnifecently written from one point of view and one narrator tells the story. it rises the imagination of reader. Where ever your imagination runs this books brilliance will fill your imagination to unbelievable heights.
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Summary: Movie/Book must be Seen/Read Together
Review: If you had given me the book without the movie, I probably would have given this 4 stars and dismissed it as a "good idea." This, however, is an excellent supplement to the movie and is a must read for all.
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Summary: I know it is good because Tyler knows it ! ! !
Review: After being a devote of the movie Fight Club, I had to read the novel. Of course there are some (not to say a lot) of differences to the movie. If you liked the movie (difficult not to happen), you have to read the novel.
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Summary: Good Crazy Story
Review: This book was a fun read. I couldn't tell if I would like it not seeing the movie. I had the background of the movie and the images in my head so I had a good imagination of what actually was going on. Palahniuk gives a lot of opinions of the male in our society and how they relate in our world today. Very good look at the males POV of how things are and his position in todays world.
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Summary: hello...? is this on....?
Review: An outstanding adaptation to film. Considering the Hollywood trend for adaptation, usually grossly pathetic adaptation, Fincher has succeeded in making a film that truly embodies the concept and intensity that Chuck Palahniuk set to text in 1996. Granted phrases were edited, scenes were dropped but Fincher managed to stay true to Palahniuks tale of mans fight against the fakeness and meaninglessness that life easily reverts too under the right amount of repression. In literature right now this is not a unique theme. Nihilism seems to be on the verge of a comeback amongst the contemporary thirty something year old writers and the younger audiences who are intent to shell out the cash for it. Fight Club however is on the top of my list as one of the more explicit espousers of this philosophy. Palahniuks Narrator is a character who is no longer an active participant in his life. Apathy turns into self-hate, self-hate to the more violent self-destruction, or (and this is the fork in the road) revolution. He seeks meaning through materialism and only really has control over what furniture to purchase for his condo. This kind of alienation and disassociation from anything real or human is the warm and dark breading ground for, among things, nihilism. In essence nihilism seeks to find meaning through violence; the only way that our Narrator can incorporate meaning into his superficiality and insignificance is through the destruction of everything and everyone around him. The Stranger by Albert Camus follows a man completely devoid of responsibility a man who can find no meaning in anything in his life until an act of senseless violence drives him the realization that the only meaning in life is the meaning that you yourself make. Unlike Palahniuks Narrator time is up for the stranger and this profound realization becomes useless to all but those who recognize it and learn from it. Fight club went under fire for its graphic intensity but I think that what most people didn't notice was that for all its morbidity this film is an abstraction of reality and not a literal 'apocalyptic vision of the future'. Not to say that it doesn't contain truth, but that the truth and the lesson need to exist in the absurdity and intensity for them to be of any relevance at all. Suggested reading: Knucklehead by Peter Gault, Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk, anything by Hunter S. Thompson, and something I just finished which is a complete Fight Club imitation but contains some interesting nuggets of abstruse sagacity, Fake.Liar.Cheat. by Tom Goldberg.....
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Summary: Should be a must have!
Review: Not to get too deep, but Chuck Palahniuk has seemigly taken the (Wilhelm) Reichian blueprint for the downfall of man as it relates to his own subconscious self fulfilling prophecy and woven it into a FANTASTIC, highly contemporary read! I was not expecting to enjoy this book this much!! The characters are vivid and incredibly human. You will pick out characters in the book and add the names of people you know; likely even visualising the people you know as being the character! I've never been so. . .so. . . COMPELLED to finish a book in one sitting. It is simply that good! In an attempt to NOT reveal anything in the book, I will say that your enjoyment of the book is magnified by knowing anything at all about Reichian philosophy- Wilhelm Reich was an absolute flippin' lunatic- However his theories are the basis for much of our psychology today. I strongly recommend this book! For any of you that have read my other reviews, youwill know that I RARELY give 5 stars. . .
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Summary: where is the Fight Club?
Review: Honestly I havent read the book, but I have the movie and I loved it. I know every conversation in it by heart. But what moved me was neither book nor the movie. I wanted to share my thoughts about how ironic it is to agree with whatever the book says and not see that by seeing the movie or buying the book we consume and become a bigger and bigger part of the "consuming society". Both movie and book are kind of humiliating us and points out our sheep instincts. If we really find Fight Club's ideas right, then we have to question our life and that includes Fight Club which at that point had been in a part of our life. You might say "dont think too deeply about a movie" but besides all the action and blood, it has a lot of philosophical meesages that brings very basic questions. As Tyler says "that's what I think and I could be wrong", but whatever happens (at least to understand what I'm saying) watch the movie or read the book. At the end you'll feel like you've been beaten up.
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Summary: I saw the movie first.
Review: It's an intriguing story. Everyone seems to agree that Palahniuk's 'Fight Club' warns of the evils of consumerism and over-emphasis on the self. So what this Fight Club is, it's a crude and brutal and bloody support group for disaffected young men. In fact it's not much different to the cancer support groups frequented by Tyler Durden, the book's main character, where he meets Marla Singer, the woman with whom he shares a love-hate affair. Instead of comforting one another with hugs and sob stories, young 20-something men pummel each other until what's left of themselves is a broken and bleeding mess. What this Fight Club is all about, is the realization that everything we own, everything we wear, everything about our sorry commodifed existence means nothing. That's my take, and quite frankly it's a bit extreme. It's enjoyable as fodder for discussion but 'Fight Club' seems to disregard everything we space monkeys have achieved for the past thousand years or so. There's always been a class structure, there have always been the rich and poor and the people in between. The thought of overthrowing our society's upper class is a delicious fantasy. Except it's just so 21st century. And anarchy? Quite fun in theory but let's get realistic. Rich in irony, a lot of the elements in Fight Club are clever because they're just allegory. Please read Fight Club. It's a thoughtful and profound book. This author has got a ton of interesting ideas and a dark sense of humour. But don't take it too seriously, OK? I like Palahniuks rapid and lean writing style. Quite ironically, this book is really short so I read it in one day and then threw it on my desk. You are not the books you read.
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