Fight Club
Ratings485
Average rating4.1
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Ratings485
Average rating4.1
The first rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club.
Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist in this, his first book. Fight Club’s estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden, an enigmatic young man who holds secret after-hours boxing matches in the basements of bars. There, two men fight "as long as they have to." This is a gloriously original work that exposes the darkness at the core of our modern world.
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I really don't like reading a book after having seen the film based on it. I can't help but see the actors in my head when I read the story, and I'd much rather see the ones my brain creates from the author's descriptions. Bah. Still, this is a good book. Hard to believe it was Chuck Palahniuk's first. If you've seen the film, you already have a pretty good idea of how he writes: staccato sentences, mired in small details, repetitive. Somehow, he makes the sum of these off-putting parts a good thing.
There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.
Fight Club is my favorite movie. The book was all over the place — like the movie. Somehow the format fit the screen better for me.
I'm just overwhelmed and speechless. It was a wonderful read.
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2 primary books3 released booksFight Club is a 3-book series with 2 primary works first released in 1996 with contributions by Chuck Palahniuk.
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