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Summary: Good but Movie was better!
Review: This is the first book I ever read in which the movie based on it was better. The book was just too choppy, your here then your there. The movie took the plot and made it tighter. The best way to put it is the book is like a first draft, and the movie is the final draft. But without the book and the ideas behind it, there would be no movie,so I give it 4 stars.
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Summary: See the movie first it is better than the book
Review: Fight club was a good movie coming from a good book. If you like the movie read the book. Reading the book gave me a different feeling than the movie the movie is very convincing in its attacks of materialism and 9-5 life. As you read the book you start to see that alot of the material is rehashed nihilism mixed with a little masochism. The book pushes alot of pop culture buttons that Ihave heard before such as material positions and owning property lead to numbness and weakness, men are weakened because of lack of male role models and because they are raised by women, vilolence brings a hire sense of male potency and awareness, you can know your self only through self destuciton and hitting rock bottom. BUT the book is Entertaining, even if it is only to count how many pulp culture mantras it chants.The characters are complex and do embrace there self destructive nature. This book is about hitting bottom and it is done in a believalbe fasion until about the end where things get a little to out of hand to be believable. I started reading Survivor. Which is better so far both books main characters become twisted messias of sort self destruction is a big theme in both books.
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Summary: Awesome story, with a neat twist at the end!
Review: I hadn't seen the movie, but my friend recommended that I try the book first. I enjoyed the prose which reminded me a lot of "Bright Lights, Big City" style 2nd person narration.As a traveling businessman, I sympathized with the main character's alienation in the beginning of the story, but he totally let things get out of control. It was interesting to see how someone dissatisfied with their seemingly empty life can go to try to make it more meaningful.
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Summary: Review
Review: It was a good book that I would recommend.
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Summary: Fighting the Good Fight
Review: The first thing about this book. You do not talk about this book. This book so candidly and viciously rips into the fleshly confusion of white male psychology, American sociology, and the conception of what is self-image. It's brutal, it's funny, it's twisted and it gets under your skin from the first line. This is truly what pulp fiction is. It's that trash cult pop culture masterpiece that bites at the ankles of all things superficially and screwed up in this Americana of consumer reality. It's got this manic burst of energy and is about as exciting and scary as a nervous breakdown--one would assume.
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Summary: The Needs of Man
Review: The book/movie Fight Club truly inspired me, offering new insight into my life and the needs of man. (I do mean man, not a genderless human.) Modern life does not offer physical aggression release that men can require. We no longer have to struggle to survive. "We have no great war, no great depression," yet we are engineered to survive such challenges. Fight Club helps to reveal this inherent lacking, and teaches us to embrace that which is biologically natural. Maybe, just maybe, violence IS ths answer.
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Summary: I know this because Tyler knows this
Review: If you're coming to the book after seeing the film-it's ok to raise your hand here as your reviewer did also-you'll see the screenwriter pretty much took the book's contents verbatim. What's missing are a few funny moments like Marla's unwitting part in the soap-making process and some disturbing details of her's and Tyler's sex life. Plus a different and more satisfying ending (c'mon, you didn't think the narrator and Marla were really in love did you?)Palahniuk's jump-cut, stream-of-consciousness style take a little getting used to, but this is a clever black comedy that leaves you with more to think about than the punchlines when it's over. It's about a culture of numbness, where Huxley, not Orwell, was right and the only way to feel is to drive yourself to the limits of physical pain or destroy something beautiful. You've probably seen the movie and giving away plot details would just detract from the experience. Just read it!
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Summary: Deserving of some consideration
Review: I made the mistake of watching the movie before reading the book which is, of course, never a good idea. What I, and Hollywood, missed the first time around was Palahniuk's final chapter. FIGHT CLUB is far too smart to take itself as seriously as it seems to, and in the end it lets the reader in on the joke. This final wink was what redeemed the book for me. Palahniuk twists the narrative to indicate how Durden's followers are every bit as brainwashed as the capitalistic society they hate so much. The result seems to be in conclusion with Orwell's 1984, that buying into ANY philosophy wholesale is dangerously foolish. However, while Orwell's theme seems critically pointed Palahniuk's is somewhat dulled and ambiguous. His own love of the characters he has created seems to cloud the vision of the book, but what reader can blame an author for that fault?
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Summary: The strange truths of Tyler Durden
Review: I may be "out of line" here but to be truthful I'm not all that concerned. Those of us that have read "Fight Club," and especially those of us that love "Fight Club" have one thing in common, we often feel like those men mentioned in "Fight Club." The book deals with underground boxing matches that lead the participants, mainly a group of disgruntled and unsatisfied young men, into a life of servitude at the hands of an insane, yet strangely sensible, character named Tyler Durden. Now don't get me wrong, I don't advocate the methods of attention that the book mentions, but there is definitely something grabbing and satisfying about the way these characters deal with an increasingly commercialistic and selfish society. I don't think there's a person out there who doesn't from time to time wonder if we would be better off if credit cards had never been invented or mass media was less concerned with the sensational. "Fight Club" is about more than a group of militant crusaders out to change the world, it's a parable if you will, something to be read and discussed and deciphered how you see fit. Yes, some who read it could say it's nothing more than a tale of men gone bad, but there's also those of us that see an appropriateness in the characters increasing desperation at the loss of their individuality to corporations and brand names. Don't miss this book. It has some important things to teach and it does an amazingly effective and entertaining job at doing just that. It's a definite must have.
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Summary: Even better than the movie
Review: Though Fight Club is my favorite movie of last year, the book boasts a better beginning and end. Not to metion, the hilarious perfume scene was sadly missing from the film.
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