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Fight Club: A Novel | 
 enlarge | Author: Chuck Palahniuk
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1843
Media: Paperback
Edition: Later printing
Pages: 224
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 0393327345
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780393327342
ASIN: 0393327345
Publication Date: October 3, 2005
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The first rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club. Chuck Palahniuk's outrageous and startling debut novel that exploded American literature and spawned a movement. Every weekend, in the basements and parking lots of bars across the country, young men with white-collar jobs and failed lives take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded just as long as they have to. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything. Fight club is the invention of Tyler Durden, projectionist, waiter, and dark, anarchic genius, and it's only the beginning of his plans for violent revenge on an empty consumer-culture world.
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 disturbing and unforgettable July 14, 2010
DougP (San Jose, USA)
Sick, twisted, dark, disturbing, funny, powerful. A unique experience for sure. One of those books that alter, for a time anyway, your sense of things. Endlessly clever and incisive. I wonder to what extent Buddhism/eastern religions influenced Chuck's ideas in FC, as much of the ideas about life and death seem to echo these influences. Lots of great, dark humor - the kind of stuff that makes you laugh nervously. Not always a fun read, so prepare to be unsettled.
I rarely read 2 books by the same author, since there are so many great authors I want to explore, but I feel compelled to go read Survivor or Choke next.
A Must Read if you Enjoyed the Movie June 15, 2010
D. McAvoy (Hauppauge, NY USA)
I feel like this novel is really everything that is great about the movie and more, almost as if the movie is really just an introduction to the book to incite us into reading it. I think, even knowing some of the big surprises from the movie, they are just presented in a different way that they feel even more powerful in this version of the story.
But stepping away from comparisons to the movie, this is an amazing novel. It is exciting, dirty, dark, and fun all at the same time. Palahnuik does a great job of really grabbing the reader's attention and really pulling them into the world he creates and guiding them around an absolutely great story. He does all this while giving the reader just enough detail to keep them engaged and an understanding of what is going on, but at the same time, keeps them in the dark about a lot of elements too. This is what enables him to create the real climax of the story. And even knowing that it is coming, this section of the novel is just amazingly told part of the story.
I also really enjoyed the description of Project Mayhem and how much detail that we get about it throughout the novel. And the narrative of the Fight Club scenes is also very well told. It is the perfect level of detail that we get a great feeling of being there and just how brutal it is while not getting hung up on it. Some may feel that some of the more brutal and gruesome descriptions in the novel take it a bit too far, but I think it really sets the tone for the novel and really characterizes our protagonist.
All in all, this turns out to be a very different story then the movie, and in my opinion a better one. I would highly recommend this to anyone who enjoyed the movie, and to anyone who has not seen the movie, to pick this up and give it a shot before watching the movie.
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