By: Chuck Palahniuk Publisher: W. W. Norton Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: W. W. Norton Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 224 Publication Date: October 03, 2005
Product Description: 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.
This book is still a beautiful and unique snowflake. I saw the movie "Fight Club" a couple years before I heard who Chuck Palahniuk was, and the film was a fantastic guy movie, and a pretty phenomenal flick all around. After I learned who Palahniuk was and read several of his other stories, I figured it was time to get to his first and probably most popular novel, "Fight Club." I was not disappointed.
From the introduction, Palahniuk sums up his goal with "Fight Club": to write a story where you get just the kernel of the story, the core bit, and to stack those one after another without any fluff, and he does this remarkably well. Each chapter starts with a premise bordering on ridiculous, then morphs into something grotesque or absurd yet believable, and ends before you have a chance to think about putting the book down, only to begin another chapter with the same structure but different ideas and actions. The things that flash through your mind in an instant, the things you have probably thought about but would never in a million years actually take seriously or attempt, this book is filled with those things, and suprisingly it draws you in even more than it grosses you out.
My one complaint, which isn't even really a complaint, is that if you've seen the movie you know exactly what's going to happen in the book. The sequence of events, the characters, the quotes, everything; the film mirrored them in stunning detail and made them all work together to produce an incredible movie. But the book came first, and it was so completely Palahniuk's story on screen more than most other novel adapations that he deserves the credit for the phenomenon it has become. And yet, even knowing exactly what would happen at every turn, the raw language and action of the book makes it an incredible enjoyable read that's easily worth the couple of hours it takes to breeze through the story. It's still a beautiful and unique snowflake, no matter what Tyler Durden says.
Better then the Movie in both Plot and Humor The Fight Club book version in my Opinion is much better then the Movie. The Characters are both explained more and there actions detailed to a greater degree. The situations that in the film made me laugh in the book because of the better explanations made me laugh harder and longer. If you have never seen the movie definitely read the book first you won't be disappointed.
better then the movie A lot of the book is almost word for word like the movie, but the book expands on things that the movie didn't. There are some differences in the book. It's also pretty easy to read, I'm a very slow reader and I flew through this in about two days.
I am Jack's smirking revenge. Outstanding book!
Power animals, split personality disorders, soap, fighting, mayhem, support groups, tainted food, castration, the book has a little bit of everything.........
I unfortunately saw the movie, at least 5 times before getting around to reading this book. If you haven't seen the movie yet, STOP, read the book first!
I've read two other books by Chuck Palahniuk, this one is the best so far!
"Fight Club" is excellent, the characters, the dialogue. It's all amazing!
There are so many good lines in this book, its hard to describe, but here are my favorites-
"If your a male, and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And sometimes you find your father in your career."
"Tyler Durden the great, who was perfect for one moment, and who said that a moment is the most you could ever expect from perfection."
"How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash. I am Ozymandias, king of kings."
There are 8 simple rules for "Fight Club"=
1.You don't talk about fight club. 2.You don't talk about fight club. 3.When someone says stop, or goes limp, even if he's just faking it, the fight is over. 4.Only two guys to a fight. 5.One fight at a time. 6.They fight without shirts or shoes. 7.The fights go on as long as they have to. 8.If this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.
The movie adaption of this book, follows the novel pretty close! Ed Norton and Brad Pitt could'nt have done a better job!
Highly recommended to everyone and especially Palahniuk fans that may never have read (Chuck's 1st book)!
ok The book arrived in perfect condition from Amazon. The movie was better! :)
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