Fight Club

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Summary: This is a great book.
Review: I really enjoyed this book despite the fact that it is written in the first person. I became curious about the book after seeing the film and it was well worth the money. For those of you that have seen the film, the book's story line and ending are different so you won't be reading something redundant.

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Summary: Fantastic narrative
Review: An incredible book. It keeps the reader interested until the very end. A phenominal read.

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Summary: Anarchy In the USA
Review: Fight Club is at it's inner core a psychological thriller about the dark side of human nature that is part of each of us. At the next level, it's subject is anarchy, an idea which has some appeal to those of us who recognize the emptiness at the center of modern western culture. Reading this book next weekend, (it's a quick read) will not turn you into an anarchist. You'll still check into your cubicle on Monday morning and fulfill your duties as an upstanding citizen of the great irrepressible consumerist utopia called America. But you might do it with a knowing smirk on your face.

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Summary: One of my favorites.
Review: What is Fight Club? Fight Club is a ride through the life of an unsatisfied man that is only looking for a way out. The only solice he finds is through self-destruction and the destruction of others. He finds freedom in pain.

With the help of Tyler Durden, he organizes that pain. He gets a predictable dose of his own personal Nirvana. Through chaos he orders his own life -- or does he?

So is this exactly the squeekiest clean of books for the ultra-conservative? No, it's more a book for the person that think they can't take any more. This book shows you what rock bottom really is. If you're in for a book that you certifiably can't put down, grab yourself a copy of Fight Club.

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Summary: A prayer-book for alienated necro-nerds.
Review: What is a necro-nerd, exactly? Well, how about a confused, suffering, success-addled schizo plugged into the fleeting vice of breakneck cynicism and rage? Rage-against-the-machine channeled into the error-trapping loop of hyper-masculine revenge fantasies? (We all went to college with a guy like this, even if it was our own alter ego.) In David Fincher's film adaptation, the narrator's Gen-X purgatorial ramblings (and nocturnal recourse to fight club) are set in motion by the routine abasements of postindustrial capitalism. But in Chuck Palahniuk's outstanding text, the fuel for Project Mayhem has a more edifying, humanly apprehensible wellspring, the erotic underpinning of all necro-nerds: "I know why Tyler had occurred. Tyler loved Marla. From the first night I met her, Tyler or some part of me had needed a way to be with Marla"(198). I realize this is an unpopular slant to take on the novel, as the majority of Palahniuk readers want to believe that *they* are the badass, broken-jawed, black-eyed, schizophrenic master-terrorist giving the corporate tyrants their incendiary due. And yet *Fight Club* is much more than a brilliant fictionalization of *The Anarchist's Cookbook*. Palahniuk is too intelligent an author not to realize that he's providing one of the most stirring analyses of post-adolescent *resentiment* this side of Bret Easton Ellis. (The underlying theme of both film and novel is Powerlessness with a boldface capital P, whether erotic or ideological.) I mean, sure, Tyler Durden's hallucinatory sense of Utopia may be circular and self-defeating, harking back to the patriarchal illusion of hunter-gatherer sanctity. "You'll hunt elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center.... A prematurely induced dark age. Project Mayhem will force humanity to go dormant or into remission long enough for the Earth to recover"(124-5). And yeah, his vision is further degraded by the Marine Corps hazing rituals and death-cult brainwashing that are the foundation of Project Mayhem (bad associations with Timothy McVeigh's beloved *Turner Diaries*). But throughout Palahniuk provides us with such a sincere and heartfelt rendering of spiritual cancer and the tumor-raising society of which we are a symptom, a fast-moving, fascinatingly itemized Pindaric ode to contemporary anguish and humiliation, that I am compelled to suspend my starry-eyed disbelief and simply enjoy the heck out of this wonderfully executed novel. Once again, I recommend *Fight Club* not for the lyricized splatterpunk Ultraviolence, nor for its (admittedly tempting) vision of an uber-masculine terrorist commune, but rather for its evocation of the narrator's Final Solitude, his infinite isolation breeding madness, self-destruction, and a genuine desire for utopian social change. At the risk of sounding irredeemably cheap and tactless, I would challenge Mr. Palahniuk to write a sequel to *Fight Club*, to further the narrator's spiritual and political development beyond the mirage of death-trip martyrization and dead-end terrorist campaigns against the slave-state of the masses. Can humanity as a whole truly be *terrorized* into Enlightenment? Whatever your take on the issue, Chuck Palahniuk provides a extraordinary case study for discussion and debate.

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Summary: Phenomenal
Review: First of all I am a huge movie critic and I cut a movie into pieces, but when I saw fight club i couldn't speak, it was the best and then I read the book and unbeliveble. #1 since catcher in the rye! Keep it real!

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Summary: it rocks
Review: this book rocks the only problem is the first rule of fight club is that you don't talk about fight club

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Summary: En Tyler nosotros confiamos.
Review: Desde el momento que lei el libro hasta que vi la pelicula, sabia que esto era algo grande, cada generacion a tenido sus iconos, easy riders, Naranja Mecanica, los libros de Castaneda y creo que la que define mejor a la generacion de fines de siglo, sin duda es este gran libro, en cuanto lo lei me senti identificado inmediatamente, solo quiero que recuerdes que: tu no eres el contenido de tu cartera. tu no eres el auto que manejas...

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Summary: The Book Is Holy
Review: I think the movie has changed my life. Ive seen the movie more then 26 times. Its my favorite. And i am happy to say im going to execute the movie in the year 2010. Get this book, read it, and maybe you'll know what im talking about. The plot is thicker then you can imagin

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Summary: A manifesto for life
Review: Just buy it. At least the movie didn't totally mangle this perfect book. The first rule of fight club is: YOU DON'T QUOTE THE MOVIE!