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Summary: A Jigsaw Puzzle for the Mind!
Review: I feel so pumped after finishing reading Fight Club. I read it cover to cover and could not put it down. This narrative novel filled me with such adrenaline. The "Sixth Sense" type climax blew my mind! This was one of the most exciting books I have ever read. Read it just for the rush!
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Summary: Anarchy, Search for a Way to live
Review: Fight club is a very witty insightful novel about a young man that awakes and finds his life is all about what he has and does not have materially. The boredom with life leads him to enter a life with a revolutionary soap entrepreneur. The revolutionary liberates men through fight club. He gives the men reasons for living, excitement.
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Summary: Ingenious Original Satire
Review: This is an outstanding story. The film was good, and did a reasonable job of capturing the novel's on-the-edge-of-reality quality, but the novel is a real stunner. Good fresh stuff. Read it as a reader--not as a man or woman or new ager or any other confining label. Hats off to Palahnuik and his imagination. I look forward to reading more of his work.
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Summary: fight club
Review: This is one of the greatest books of our time.It's look at life is unparalled by any other book i can think of.
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Summary: An excellent novel
Review: DISCLAIMER:I'm writing this at one in the morning, I'm having insomnia (although I'm nobody's sidekick yet.) So if this review is a little disjointed and random, well, sorry.The thing about "Fight Club" is that it's only about surface values on the surface. That's what the godawful movie understood and put into it, but when you reread this book (and you should), you find comments about serious issues ranging from conformity to facism. Of course, this is also, at least for me, a fun book to read. The first time I read it, I picked it up intending to start and read the whole thing. Then I read it again two days later. A third time, a week after that. It has great characterizations and really incredible imagery in it. It's also blisteringly funny (something, I have to say, the movie wasn't. I have to digress here; the movie is vile, it really is. Read this book, and you'll see why when and if you see it) There are some scenes that are pure, gross-out slapstick that are a jarring note in the book. It's also interestingly structured, sort of like mirrors facing each other. The opening and closing chapters are the outer layers...and the opening and closing of each chapter serves the same purpose. This book is extremely dark, and very well done. I fully recommend picking it up, ASAP. But remember, you have to think about its contents. Don't read it once and toss it aside; you'll be missing the point completely.
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Summary: Zen Brawl
Review: I once spent a week living with Trappist monks and in retrospect I can see that, ironically, their lifestlye often mirrors that of Tyler Durden (Fight Club's most dynamic character): 1) Rejection of material weath 2)non-conformity 3)the desire to let go of those things that truly don't matter. Additionally, Palahniuk's vivid, stop&go style keeps you racing along at Tyler's pace while questioning everything that we hold as pillars of human acheivement (the Internet for example).
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Summary: Like a punch in the face that is painful but refreshing !
Review: There are a lot of facets to this book: some zen, alienation and resistance of youth from a dehumanizing culture, being possessed by possessions and breaking free of that slavery, etc. It's an excellent fast-paced view of a spiritual awakening gone terribly astray that will provide you with a lot of food for thought. Some say that it's better to know you're lost and be searching for the truth, than to be wrong but oblivious. I would also recommend another book which is not similar at all, but is the bible of all conspiracy books: 'The Immuminatus Trilogy' by Robert Wilson. Also, check out the movie, 'The Matrix'.
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Summary: Exciting, But It Makes A Better Screenplay
Review: I did with this one just what everyone usually says not to, I saw the movie first. It got me so excited about the ideas, the characters, the plot, that I rushed out to get the book. And was disappointed. Don't get me wrong, Palahniuk has great ideas and writes biting dialogue better than any I've read by someone trying to latch on to the GenX pop-talk in along while. But he leaves out a greater desperation, a greater general statement about the men of which he writes, a sense of purpose that sadly I found in the movie. If you've seen the movie, don't bother. But if not, then maybe, just maybe, this'll have something to offer you...
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Summary: An awesome dive into the depths of a deranged human mind
Review: A great book that really left me thinking. Palahniuk is a great storyteller who does wonders in making the imagination churn. He reaches so deep into the mind of the man and creates a feeling of suspense that few authors can achieve. The movie does an equally as good a job with a weaker ending, but twisted and shocking nonetheless. A must read.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: Palahniuk has a unique style of writing. He has a way of jumping right into the plot, and most of the time, your not fully aware of space, time or characters, but that's what makes this book so intriguing and different. As you read along, things become clearer;...a dark, innovating, "action-punched" book!
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