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Summary: Great concept, great writing, good book.
Review: Actually I'd give it 3 1/2 stars but I can't. Chuck Palahniuk's debut novel Fight Club reads like a movie waiting to happen. Just by reading the jacket alone gives is reason to know why this book was made into a movie. (see it) But you might want to read the book first. It's not that the book gives you something new. It really doesn't. But it does give you a clearer understanding about the characters. In fact i think the movie was better than the book. But I'll explain that later. Everyone should know the basic premise of the book. A young depressed yuppie, whose on relief from his consumer addicted cubicle life is going to cancer group meetings, meets Tyler Durden. A wild and loose soap sales man. Thw two start a fight club for disaffected males. Great premise. The fight club quickly takes on a life of it's own garnering many mambers from different walks of life. That's about all that I'll say about the plot. Palahnuik's style takes some getting used to. He doesn't write prose like most writers. Words,sentences, paragraphs ect. He writes more in images. He throws out tidbits of information at the oddest times. At first I wondered where in the hell he was going but later I realized (a-ha) I am jack catching on. The images in some parts are brutal. There are times in which I felt dirty even reading what was going on on the page. :) But. You can tell that this is a first novel. (it's a good one though) It's not very descriptive at times, leaving a lot left to the imagination. So don't go expecting everything to completely work itself out. I found this interesting at time but frustrating at others. The ending was also rather weak. I was expecting a little more. Overall I'd definetly recommend Fight club to the right person. This is not the novel that going to be chosen by Oprah as her book of the month. It's brutal, cynical, smarmy and un-pc as you will read in a while and one hell of an interesting read.
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Summary: A superb alienation satire
Review: No one truly cares whether you live or die, but to truly live, one must first die. That is the philosophy of the disenfranchised younger generation. Violence and alienation is acceptable social behavior by the Gen Xers. Into this mix steps forward Tyler Durden. He harnesses the growing frustration of his generation towards the materialism of the boomers. He creates the FIGHT CLUB where young males can batter each other in basements across the country. Every morning, the warriors return to their daily drudge of minimal employment. However, the world has yet to learn what Tyler's true agenda is, an announcement that will be announced to the world from one of its "highest peaks". FIGHT CLUB is a taut thriller that centers on a humanized form of chaos theory. Each generation wrecks havoc on the thoughts and ambitions of their parent generation, leaving their elders to wonder if that is all there is? The narrator is an interesting character whose conclusions of life are frightening but thought provoking. In some ways, the novel is a darker version of Hair as people remain heartless and ignore their friends and loved ones except when they are dying. Chuck Palahniuk writes the first superb alienation satire that places the sixties radicals in the positions once held for their parents.
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Summary: An exercise in futility
Review: What the authors of the reviews posted here don't seem to get about Fight Club is that it is a literary joke. It is not a gripping view of the future, it is not trenchant satire -- it is presented explicitly as a masochistic paranoid fantasy. The last chapter is disappointing because Mr. Palahnuik wants it to be disappointing. He's saying "Look, I've been messing with your head for 200 pages, and now I'm leaving you with this lame copout just to show you who's been in charge all along." As for all the readers who insist on reciting the first two rules of fight club, perhaps they should think about why you're not supposed to talk about fight club. Is it perhaps because it doesn't bear talking about? Is that not part of Mr. Palahnuik's joke? Fight Club is a literary exercise and not a work of social commentary. How do I know this? Easy -- because the ideas are preposterous and are presented as the crazed fantasies of a psychotic. Duh. Fight Club is about Mr. Palahnuik exploring the functions of writing. The book is intended to engage your intelligence and emotions in an ultimately futile undertaking, and it succeeds in achieving that goal. I don't know, though, why we should care about that.
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Summary: A brilliant book honored by the movie
Review: I've seen Fight Club-the movie and immediately got hold of the book. I have to say, good as the book is, Fincher does more than an adequate job of capturing the spirit, the madness, the humor and has even added a kinetic energy that compliments the book in every way. It's one of the best realizations of a book's theme I've ever encountered. Then there's the ending... I loved how Mr Palahniuk left that dark and open-ended in the book, and that's why his novel will serve as the ultimate nihilistic statement. Chilling.
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Summary: Visceral
Review: Visceral, moving, touching. Humor like this can only exist next to violence like this. Well written descriptions and much thought. Unless you count that ending. Chuck! Where'd you leave the ending for this book??? Look under the couch or in the glove box, its got to be around the house somewhere.
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Summary: This will change your life.
Review: First rule of Fight Club - tell everyone about Fight Club. Second rule of Fight Club - tell EVERYONE about Fight Club. I really wanted to be clever and write the same way as Chuck, but that would be cheesy. But I will say, in my own voice (isn't that what Tyler would want?) that this is an amazing book. It truly grabs hold of you and shakes you into truly understanding what the world says a man is - and that it should, no NEEDS, to be different. You are thourghly convinced to follow in the Narrator's footsteps. Not into crazy land, but to follow in the steps of "letting that which does not matter, truly slide." (I realize this is from the movie, but it sums the book up perfectly. While unerving, and even a little distracting at first, Chuck's word and sentence style gets you into the head of another person. You truly understand what it means to be him, to think like him, to be destracted like him. To be hopeless and desperate like him. Whoever says that this is just another violent fling have truly missed the point. This is about realizing that you have to hit rock bottom to understand who you really are. Chuck can get you there
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Summary: Astounding
Review: This book was terrific. It is one of my favorite books of all time. It was weird and action packed. I really liked this book. I recently saw the movie and it was also really good. I recommend it to all of you out there.
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Summary: Read it twice, once for you and once for you.
Review: The first time I read Fight Club I thought it was good. The second time I read Fight Club I thought it was excellent. I'm not going to talk about Fight Club because those are the rules.
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: Fight Club is a great piece of work that makes you see how crazy this world can get. This book is one of the best I've read since John Grisham's The Firm
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Summary: An awesome read.
Review: So dark, so funny, just plain awesome. The book itself blows the movie away. Even if you've seen the movie I reccomend getting the book asap.
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