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Summary: Energetic, Riveting
Review: I read Survivor first, which wasn't as good as Fight Club. Both have lots of energy, insight and imagination, but Fight Club is more relevant and gives you more to think about. It's a really strong, original first novel and there are elements in the book that everyone can appreciate and recognize in their own lives...ubiquitous Starbucks... what Nietzsche said "The more possessions you have, the more possessed you are." This novel breaks through all of our compulsions and behaviours to show us what we're doing and how dull it all is.
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Summary: Fight club
Review: C'est vraiment un excelent bouquin qu'il faut absolument lire si vous avez aimé le film de David Fincher... Ca faisait longtemps qu'un livre avait aussi bien rendu le "combat mental" d'un homme d'aujourd'hui... Chaque ligne de ce livre décrit en fait ce combat acharné d'un homme emprisonné par la société: son boulot.......... Bref, c'est vraiment un bon livre qui a été merveilleusement bien adapter au ciné par un réalisateur de talent.
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Summary: Save me from the neo-anarchists
Review: For the first (and hopefully last) time I have to say "I liked the movie better than the novel". The movie was more clever, and the actors made the dialog pop.I wonder about those reviewers who said the book was "revolutionary", "thought provoking", and "new". I direct their attention to any Nihilist scribblings of the last century. Fight Club offers no new insite into human nature, mob mentality, or philosophy/psychology; those that have some self-proclaimed epiphany after reading this book need to get a life and expand their reading horizons. At it's best, Fight Club, is scathingly funny, dark and morbid. At it's worst, it's highly over rated by chest-beating testosterone-driven man-children.
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Summary: Waking up from insomnia
Review: The author spins a yarn that is an alarm clock for the monotony of everyday life. The narrator is an everyman, trapped in a consumer culture that defines his personal worth and capabilities. His dissent into rebellion, is the fall of modern man, but also the most human element of his existence. The protagonist justifies his anarchic ways like Camus' judge-penitent. His Beaudelarian voyage sails on a beautiful flower-bed of evil until this deceptive odyssey empties into an abyss of man's infernal condition. But before our Virgil takes his fateful plunge, he makes sure to take a piece of heaven with him, to help cushion his fall. An empowering and regenerating read. This is not a call for violent insurrection. The untrained eye should be careful not to miss the Pequod.
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Summary: Rarely do books change the way you see things...
Review: I must admit, I saw the movie first. The dark humor and witty commentary on social stereotypes got me wondering if the book could be as good. I bought it the next day and finished it two days later and I'm glad to say that it is indeed. I can only say that I now understand why this book has become a cult classic. Palahniuk writes in a style similar to the way the human mind works. Many might not like the sentence fragments and bombardments of dogmatic snippets. I must admit, I was a little turned off by the random haiku. I think haiku is random enough. But once you let your mind adjust, it feels like you've been connected to another person's mind and are experiencing the same electrical impulses to the brain as the narrator's. While the schitzophrenic nature of the narrator may seem difficult to understand, by the end of the novel, it becomes second-hand. Just go with it, you'll be a better person for the ride.
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Summary: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde revisited
Review: Reading Fight CClub, one enters the no man's land between sanity and schizophrenia. It is amazing the way Palahniuk decribes this journey to the depths of human phyche that has suppressed its true desires and has created a whole different world to live in. The extremes of human nature are seen as normal and the normalities of our life are actually extremities we do to keep sane. It is a book waiting to be made a movie, that's true, but that doesn't reduce its literary value at all. It is the modern version of the figure of the Stranger, except this time there are 2 of them. I hope Palahniuk is not a one-time author and keeps up the good work.
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Summary: It's all because of Marla
Review: I've felt like the guy in this book--so dead to the world that it's better to feel pain than not to feel anything at all, desperate for contact with something real that's not being sold to me by the slick marketing campaign of some multi-national corporation that refers to me as a "consumer", alienated by hypocritical baby-boomer values. It's more obvious in the book than in the movie version that the whole thing about monkeywrenching the consumer culture was Marla's idea. And a danm good idea too. I can't believe anybody had the nerve to make a film about this inflammatory concept. The censors are all worried about copycat fight clubs, but how about copycat culture jamming?
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Summary: Who's been watching The X-Show?
Review: Just as FX network's 'The X-Show' and copy 'The Man Show' cater to the unattended needs of...well, men, so Chuck Palahniuk caters to the unattended needs of men who read. I like this book, but I find the wanton slathering of testosterone that accompanies all such "counter-programming" distasteful...Plot:I'm a yuppie male dissatisfied with the empty life my high paying job has brought me. So, to feel better I invent a pure trailor trash alter ego and fight strangers in the basement of a bar./But I still liked the book.
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Summary: Except for the ending, not much different from the movie.
Review: This review is only for people who saw the movie and are wondering if they should read the book. I saw the movie and was completely blown away. I then read the book and found it was almost exactly the same as the movie, save for a different ending. If I hadn't seen the movie first I probably would give the book 4 stars.
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Summary: Very thought provoking
Review: I don't know about you, but I'm sick of watching movies and forgetting what happened in them before I even leave the theater. However, after watching Fight Club, I could not get it out of my head. I went to watch Bringing out the Dead that same day and couldn't even concentrate on what Nicholas Cage was doing, because Fight Club kept playing itself over and over again in my head. The next day I went out and bought Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, and ordered Survivor. I figured that if the book was half as good as the movie I would be satisfied. I read Fight Club every spare moment I had and finished it in two days. Let me tell you, this book is awesome! The movie keeps the intent of the book, but the book takes the storyline to a whole other level. No one but Palahniuk can mix together so many different story lines and odd images into a working novel. His imagery and style are breathtaking and if you're anything after me, as soon as you're done reading it, you'll want to read it again.
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