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Summary: Just plain scary--it's an insider's look at following blind
Review: Fight Club is intense, and disturbing. Its examination of the logical next step to following devoutly is convincing, and strikes a chord of fear when one thinks of the plague of true desperation spilling across this nation as the distribution of wealth continues to fall into the hands of the 5 percenters.
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Summary: Very good writing
Review: I haven't seen the movie yet, as this is Australia and movies take months to get here (if at all). But after reading the premise of the movie I decided it would be an interesting story and, based on the fact that the author could allegedly write, decided to read the book. I really liked the book but I must confess I'm one of those who doesn't care for the ending. It works OK, but I felt the authour could have done better somehow. The rest of the book is great and the writing is wonderfully economical yet still remarkably vivid. Just the way I like it! Fight Club is a good, engaging read.
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Summary: Another slick pointless book.
Review: Are we really supposed to believe that what men need is to destroy the world? Is this the only way that all things "commercial" can be gotten away from? Now that this book has become a "blockbuster", and the author a "name", isn't this exactly what us men are supposed to destroy? How can a book be five stars (or even two) when the internal logic of it is strained so? We won't even talk about the ending. This book is just another peice of trash that has been labelled as smart because it has an idea at its center. Never mind that the idea is stupid and poorly wrought.
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Summary: Fast paced & quite entertaining
Review: This is a fast and furious tour de force that takes on, among other things, fascism, masculinity, hope, despair, desire, castration, napalm, pugilism, love and bad catering all at once without losing a beat. Sort of a yuppie "Clockwork Orange," without the Beethoven. That Palahniuk can thread together all the angst, anxiety and repressed desire that surfaces in this novel is impressive. It may not be the "best" novel of the year, but it most likely will prove to be one of the most provocative. Palahniuk said recently in the SF Chronicle that this novel arose from his frustrations at having his first manuscript unceremoniously rejected. Hence, at certain levels the novel becomes quite self-reflexive, commenting on the authorial process. A lot of his meditations on fascism and authoritarianism seem less reactionary in this light. (Anyone interested in this strain of thought should see Greil Marcus' "Lipstick Traces.") All in all, highly recommended.
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Summary: amazing begining . . . okay ending. A good read over all.
Review: First rule of the novel Fight Club is: tell everyone about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: tell more people about this novel. I know this because Tyler knows this . . . This entire novel, up until the very end, is utterly amazing. Don't let that keep you from picking this book up, though. The end isn't bad, it just dosen't measure up to the rest of the book.
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Summary: Engaging Read That Doesn't Disappoint...
Review: With all the fire (and praise) this movie is catching, I desired nothing more than to be able to watch it when it came out; I waited for months for it and, when it came out, it didn't come to my hillbilly town theater, so I picked up the book. Now, I don't want to see the movie because there's no way they can improve on this wonderful book. Also, there are really no fight scenes in the book. They just talk about the wounds he receives afterwards and, for the few there are, they're usually just one-paragraph or two-paragraph (although the writer doesn't use paragraphs conventionally) blurbs about what happened. Amazing how a story punctuated with violence can center only on the gruesome details and not the violence itself. This'll definitely get blamed for the next act of violence committed in our nation, but I recommend it to any psychologically sound individual.
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Summary: The 8th rule of Fight Club is you do not review Fight Club!
Review: This is Chuck Palahniuk's book. David Fincher's movie is good, but it is not Chuck Palahniuk's book. This is fortunate and unfortunate. Fincher's movie makes a better movie than Palahniuk's book. Palahniuk's book makes a much better STORY. Fight Club, the book, is really a wonderful work of fiction. I must seriously disagree with the reviewer who stated that, anyone who felt that they related to the characters in the book were wrong becasuse the book is really about the kind of person that wouldn't read a book. Both characters read in the novel and in the movie if I am correct. Besides, I think most peole, readers or not, have had some type of escapist fantasy run through their head. Obviously anyone who actually participates in Project Mayhem-type activities has serious issues, but I think most of us have had destructive fantasies before. It's perfectly normal, and I think most of the fans who written reviews on this page will agree. The beauty of Fight Club is in the eye of the beholder, and it will mean different things to different people. I know this because Tyler knows this.
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Summary: A Classic
Review: This is the best book I've read all year. All the people who are dissing it are crazy. I don't understand people calling the twist a "cop-out" or an "ending". I happens about 70 pages from the end and it is essential to the story. Plus, it makes sense. Palahniuk is a great author, and plus he seems like a nice guy, too. I went to a signing and he signed everything while maintaining a genial attitude and chatting with people. Read "Survivor" it's just as good, if not better.
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Summary: It is awesome
Review: Chuck writes deeper than I can think. Its a book that should not be read if the person is mentally unbalanced.
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Summary: A different kind of horror novel
Review: "Fight Club" is written in such a dreamy way, with one phrase recounting one thread of the action, and the next going on over a completely different situation, the effect is hallucinogenic. We join the narrator in his sleepwalking state, where he's unable to keep track of time, what happened before and what happened afterwards, moving around a world filtered by the foggy lenses of dream. "Fight Club" is written as a rapid succession of blows to your mind. Short sentences that seem innocent build up to an all-out assault to your senses. Left jab. Upper punch. The rhythm follows the carnage of the fight clubs, hitting before you can raise your guard. "Fight Club" is a horror story, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. The characters spin into a whirlpool of mayhem, unable to feel alive otherwise. The gothic imagery builds up at every chapter, a denser layer of fear placed every time. And then, at his darkest moment, the narrator stumbles upon the truth about Tyler Durden, the man he has so blindly been following throughout, and finally throws him into the void, screaming in terror all the way down, and us with him. "Fight Club" is about people who've abandoned all hope. Jump in, and be prepared to see one of the many faces of despair, and abandon hope yourself.
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