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Summary: similar to the movie... but a lot more twisted
Review: I was already a major addict to the movie, but I finally got to read the book. It had many similarities to the movie, though the movie added some parts which were absent in the book, and the book had a few parts that were absent in the movie. The book, Fight Club, was a very easy read for me (I read it in one night), and it actually made the movie make some more sense, though I quote it like one quotes the Bible, and the descriptions of many of the evnts were explained a lot more graphically than they were portrayed in the movie, and of course, the ending to the book was a surprise, to say the least, and I recommend this book just as much as I do the movie. Chuck Palahniuk is a great author, and Fight Club is one of the most important books to be released in the last decade. Its views of corporate society, and individualism are absolutely amazing and philosophical, almost the way Nietzsche's philosophy is.
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Summary: Like An Uppercut, Quick and Intense
Review: This is the only book I've read that moved faster, and that left more to the imagination, than its movie. The two were extremely alike, but the movie used its special effects and cool visuals to flesh out the streamlined storyline of the print version. Also, the movie was much more violent, since the story never goes into too much detail about anything, leaving the gory minutiae for the wide screen. Fight Club's (the book) dialog was quick-moving, the scenes were tightly described and without extraneous detail, and rarely was there inner-dialog that lasted longer than a few paragraphs. The whole experience was an adrenaline rush akin to the by-now familiar basement brawls that made Fight Club more of a phenomenon than a book and a movie. This is an excellent joyride of a read for the beach or a bus trip: an action-packed adventure that has a big payoff without requiring any cerebral cortex of the reader. What a great story line, too. A covert fight club, created by yuppies disenchanted with their sterilized existence and in need of testosterone, catches steam and spirals into madness, threatening world domination before it is through. Fight Club has enough cool and subversive elements to read like an primer in underground education, without the didacticism. Very cool is the story of multiple personalities told in the first person. My only criticism about the book (and the movie) is that the plot was so big and brazen that it could have fueled two stories in this age of sparse ideas: one about the fight club itself, and another about the multiple-personalities of the narrator-slash-Tyler Durden. Better to have two excellent stories to tell than none, I suppose.
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Summary: Tapping into the mind of a generation.
Review: Chuck Palahniuk writes what was on the tip of all of our tongues...he and Tyler just gave it a name!
EXCELLENT!!!
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Summary: Stupid
Review: O my god this is easily the worst book I have ever read in my life... It just has one stupid idea and it beats it to death. The main theme is that you're not a consumer if you get into fights. Who told this guy he could write? It seems like he wrote this in a week.
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Summary: Overrated!
Review: Why is this stupid book so popular? The author doesn't even know how to write in English. I suppose Palahniuk is a good author for high school students or for people who have never read a book before. The ending [stinks], almost as if the author didn't know how to finish the book. Even I could write better than this, and my writing [stinks]!
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Summary: Learning How to Read
Review: There is no reason to compare "Chuck Palahniuk"'s FIGHT CLUB with the work of J.G. Ballard. The narrative of FIGHT CLUB was indeed lifted directly (and crudely) from Ballard's magisterial CRASH. But the difference between the two authors is infinite: 1.) J.G. Ballard is one of the most profound, original, and eloquent literary artists of the twentieth century. He represents not only the best of Dirty Realism and Surrealism---he is one of the greatest writers of the last century tout court. 2.) "Palahniuk" is functionally illiterate. FIGHT CLUB: a Bible for those who cannot read!
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Summary: Destroy something beautiful!
Review: This is the best book I have ever read, I watched the movie and read the book. If you thought the movie was good read this book and fight club will continue to change the way you think. Chuck Palahniuk you are a truely great author...
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Summary: Similar, but even better than the movie!
Review: If you're a fan of the movie, then this book is a definate must-read. You'll feel like you're getting to see the extended version of the movie since the film follows pretty close to the book, and many of the lines from the movie were taken directly out of the novel PLUS of course you get all sorts of hilarious scenes that were unfortunately excluded from the film. The end of the book is completely different than the movie, and much more interesting. After this, you're going to want to read all of Chuck's books (which is a good idea, because they have the same style and feel as Fight Club, and are just as bizarre and humorous). Trust me, you're going to love this book!
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Summary: This book is amazing
Review: This is not the easiest book to read. It has a brilliant or at least odd idea on every page, and if you want to get the most out of it, you'll have to put it down and think about it more than a few times. It's philosophy disguised as throwaway pop culture, it is a new use of the written word and it is, in my humble opinion, brilliant. The only other novel that I've ever read that matches it's style is We All Fall Down by Brian Caldwell. It's a Figh Club like take on the Christian apocalypse and it struck me as very similar to Fight Club in it's depth of ideas and density of insight. Both Palahniuk and Caldwell are a new breed of writer's who seem to be building on what's been done before rather than simply re-hashing it.
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Summary: who says books are dead?
Review: Anyone who has lost faith in the medium of letters should pick up this book. It's a fun, quick read, with a deep, dark, message. It reads as fast as thoughts, and the language is used brilliantly. It's also hard to tell where the narrative ends and the dialogue begins, making it very engrossing. This book deals with with an ordinary businessman and the mysterious Tyler Durden whom he meets, and how they relieve themselves of typical American depression and anxiety by beating the (censored) out of each other and friends in the "Fight Club". When they get bored with that, they move on to bigger, more destructive pastimes that might very well mean the end of civilization. Fight Club is a condemnation of the modern desire to crush the negative aspects of our life, but it also deals with many other issues. The movie is good, but it's a bit too much of a regurgitation of the book's concept (i.e. David Fincher should have been a little more creative). But it's still a good film. However, be sure to read this book too. You won't put it down!
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