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Fight Club: A Novel Kindle Edition

by Chuck Palahniuk (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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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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The only person who gets called Ballardesque more often than Chuck Palahniuk is, well... J.G. Ballard. So, does Portland, Oregon's "torchbearer for the nihilistic generation" deserve that kind of treatment? Yes and no. There is a resemblance between Fight Club and works such as Crash and Cocaine Nights in that both see the innocuous mundanities of everyday life as nothing more than the severely loosened cap on a seething underworld cauldron of unchecked impulse and social atrocity. Welcome to the present-day U.S. of A. As Ballard's characters get their jollies from staging automobile accidents, Palahniuk's yuppies unwind from a day at the office by organizing bloodsport rings and selling soap to fund anarchist overthrows. Let's just say that neither of these guys are going to be called in to do a Full House script rewrite any time soon.

But while the ingredients are the same, Ballard and Palahniuk bake at completely different temperatures. Unlike his British counterpart, who tends to cast his American protagonists in a chilly light, holding them close enough to dissect but far enough away to eliminate any possibility of kinship, Palahniuk isn't happy unless he's first-person front and center, completely entangled in the whole sordid mess. An intensely psychological novel that never runs the risk of becoming clinical, Fight Club is about both the dangers of loyalty and the dreaded weight of leadership, the desire to band together and the compulsion to head for the hills. In short, it's about the pride and horror of being an American, rendered in lethally swift prose. Fight Club's protagonist might occasionally become foggy about who he truly is (you'll see what I mean), but one thing is for certain: you're not likely to forget the book's author. Never mind Ballardesque. Palahniukian here we come! --Bob Michaels

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Featuring soap made from human fat, waiters at high-class restaurants who do unmentionable things to soup and an underground organization dedicated to inflicting a violent anarchy upon the land, Palahniuk's apocalyptic first novel is clearly not for the faint of heart. The unnamed (and extremely unreliable) narrator, who makes his living investigating accidents for a car company in order to assess their liability, is combating insomnia and a general sense of anomie by attending a steady series of support-group meetings for the grievously ill, at one of which (testicular cancer) he meets a young woman named Marla. She and the narrator get into a love triangle of sorts with Tyler Durden, a mysterious and gleefully destructive young man with whom the narrator starts a fight club, a secret society that offers young professionals the chance to beat one another to a bloody pulp. Mayhem ensues, beginning with the narrator's condo exploding and culminating with a terrorist attack on the world's tallest building. Writing in an ironic deadpan and including something to offend everyone, Palahniuk is a risky writer who takes chances galore, especially with a particularly bizarre plot twist he throws in late in the book. Caustic, outrageous, bleakly funny, violent and always unsettling, Palahniuk's utterly original creation will make even the most jaded reader sit up and take notice. Movie rights to Fox 2000.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000U0O9FM
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company; Reissue edition (October 17, 2005)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 17, 2005
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2635 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 221 pages
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Chuck Palahniuk's nine novels are the bestselling Snuff, Rant, Haunted, Lullaby and Fight Club, which was made into a film by director David Fincher, Diary, Survivor, Invisible Monsters, and Choke, which was made into a film by director Clark Gregg. He is also the author of the non-fiction profile of Portland Fugitives and Refugees and the non-fiction collection Stranger Than Fiction. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.

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So I Have Watched The Movie 10+ Times - Still Enjoyed the book
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So I Have Watched The Movie 10+ Times - Still Enjoyed the book
It is true, the book is always better than the movie. Watching this movie in 1999 in New York City Theaters and I remember how much influence on my way of thinking, to challenge the hamster wheel, just as I was starting college.Of course the book is way cooler after you watched the movie, as you have Brad Pitt in your head and the other amazing characters from the movie - honestly I am not sure how much I would have enjoyed the book if I didn’t already have the amazing visual experience from watching the video.Yet by reading the book, you get so much more depth and feeling. Those quick 5 second clips in the movie now are written out in pages and you get the more granular feel of what is happening in Tyler and the character’s head (whose name we never know!).The ending is different in the movie and the book - and I saw that in the review when deciding to invest in reading the book or not - and that alone is worth going through it.What was surprising was how close the book and the movie are! Some of the exact lines are right from the book, and for the most part it is fairly straight along the the same storyline.As Fight Club is one of my favorite movies of all time, I of course will enjoy the book and it gives a new angle and dimension - I should probably watch the movie (yes again) to more fully compare the book and movie.
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MeganKreu
5.0 out of 5 stars Better in my 30s
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2024
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Reread this, and it hits harder now. Chuck Palahnuik is a genius. It's a quick read but has pages of thought-provoking quotes. It's a book that you think about and remember forever.
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Pablo Wunderlich
5.0 out of 5 stars The world of Fight Club
Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2013
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Having watched the movie was the strongest reason why I didn't feel the need to read the book. It always bumped in my mental vault, the fact that someone had come up with such a powerful and compelling idea, executed it impecably on screen (Norton's and Pit's acting was phenomenal; perhaps Pit's finest performances). I finally gave the book a try. I was surprised to see that the book was short. It didn't put me off at all, it was just an observation, especially after having watched the movie I expected a lengthier book.

As I read through the pages I was aware of the nuances with the movie, something that made my neurons glitch from time to time, for I expected one thing, yet found something else. Yet, Palahniuk's mastery of his unique style and narrative kept me reading and reading, constantly trying to decipher why the writing style was so good and so bold and so... damn original.

The story itself is strong, consistent to the bone and detail oriented without being overwhelming. I figured Fight Club was very successful because it defined a putrid, rotten world that exists within the human realm. Fight Club gave this world a face, a personality, a tangible morphology we could finally grasp. This world occupies the mind of the bluest, the raw material of hatred towards the organized, paved by those who seek to control through the creation of rules that determine a beings reality. This reality has a big blind-spot, and the world Palanhniuk described in Fight Club defined this blind-spot and exploited it. This blind-spot is an individual's need to feel unique, and yet, the opposing desire to feel he is part of a movement, a group, to be part of a collective. To be part of Fight Club one had to slay one's reality, to lay naked midst the ugly and emerged reborn, only to join a new set of dogmas. This is portrayed as the idea of propagating organized-chaos, an idea that spread through the mediocre like a virus. The virus lived among society cloaked under the veil of working men, men who seemed to follow a set of social rules; the virus unveiled during the night, during Fight Club. An integrant of Fight Club was a menacing soul in search of freedom, from social expectations and the boxed-in sensation felt by binding rules of how one must supposedly behave midst peers. The soul within Fight Club sought freedom, even from itself, only to be lured by its desire to belong, to be part of the clan: the paradox of wanting to be unique and yet, the inevitability of desiring to be part of cult, to be part of the change. Man's demise is served cold in Fight Club, for example, when Tyler makes soap out of fat rendered by liposuction--society's shame--, sold back to the thinned as soap, purchasing what once was thought as biological waste, now regarded precious and a standard of "high society".

To leave aside the story, I would like to mention Palahniuk's writing style. To achieve the deliverance of a message so profound, in such a raw manner, using short sentences and explicit imagery is indeed a literary achievement. I truly enjoyed this read, far better than watching the movie. The movie, however, is also an achievement in itself.
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That one guy
4.0 out of 5 stars A great read, but it may be showing its age
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2023
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First things first: Palahniuk has a profound gift for language. His writing is poetic and punchy (no pun intended). Some reviewers have complained that Fight Club is difficult to read because Palahniuk doesn’t tell a straightforward story in a straightforward way, but I love a novel that forces me to do some of the work. Palahniuk lays out the dots and tells us to connect them. He sets a pace and demands that we keep up.

Palahniuk is also a master storyteller. The plot of Fight Club unfolds incrementally, at just the right pace. Pieces gradually click into place until everything gels at the end—and blessedly, Palahniuk knows exactly when that end should come. He doesn’t drag out things for hundreds of superfluous pages. His writing style is as spare and fit as his characters.

That said, I’m not sure how well Fight Club has aged. That’s not because of any “un-PC” elements in the plot (although those definitely exist). It’s more because of the book’s fairly naive view of how the world works and how it can be changed.

Fight Club purports to be—at least to some degree—a response to capitalism and consumerism and their “emasculating” effect on society. It’s no stretch at all to compare the community of men created by the book’s fight clubs to today’s real-life Proud Boys. Like Tyler’s “space monkeys”, the Proud Boys have generated attention and taken some action, like helping to launch a failed coup of the US government on January 6, 2021. But ultimately, the actions of both groups—the space monkeys and the Proud Boys—seem like futile, misguided attempts to reclaim some fabled masculine identity.

If the book were written today, all of Tyler’s explosive know-how would have to be channeled into screen-friendly social media campaigns. The Proud Boys have shown that, at least in America, brute force alone can’t compete with the power of influencers, the vast budgets the fuel consumer culture, or the other complexities of capitalist society.
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pope thud
5.0 out of 5 stars I wish I could talk about this book, but y'know the rules
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2024
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Really enjoyed reading a book that I can't talk about. I'd say the cuts from scene to scene were innovative, but I can't talk about it. I'd ask if Marla was a third personality, but can't talk about it. Great read.
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shawn brennan
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it.
Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2024
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Great pace, a very fast read with plenty of meat. I could not put it down. We await your return Mr. Durden.
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Alyssa
5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorite books of the year!
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2024
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I asked my gf if she had any book recommendations for me, and she mentioned this book. I have never seen the movie and honestly had no idea what the story was about, so I was reading this book completely blind!! I did NOT like this book the first several chapters. I just didn't understand why the main character and was listening and following the other character around like he was! BUT THEN, once you know, it changes everything! I LOVED this book after that! Yall who like this book know what I'm talking about, but once you get to THE PART, it makes you want to read the entire book over again! I'm very happy I have it in my collection now. If you like crazy and psychological thrillers, then I recommend reading this book. Take it from a sceptic who would have NEVER read this book if it weren't for my gf. She told me to read Choke next, by the same author. That will be next months book!
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Whitney B.
5.0 out of 5 stars A classic
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2024
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A classic and a fave - for good reason! Excited to own a physical copy of it now. Would love to see a special edition in the future; there's so many cool hardcover with sprayed edge books out there now, I bet they could come up with something neat!
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William
5.0 out of 5 stars Buen producto
Reviewed in Mexico on April 3, 2024
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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing read.
Reviewed in Canada on January 12, 2024
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A foreman where I work got me into reading and I dabbled at most....until he handed me this book as a gift because I told him how Fight Club was hands down my favorite movie (and I've watched a he'll of a lot of movies) and he said that books are always better...boy was he right! Long live Tyler Durden.
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Olivia
5.0 out of 5 stars Adore the book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 12, 2024
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I absolutely love this book, I studied it for my English literature A Level and analysed it for my coursework, it's very cleverly written, the Narrator/Tyler etc. Can't recommend it enough
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Stefano
5.0 out of 5 stars Adoro questo libro
Reviewed in Italy on January 19, 2024
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Per migliorare in inglese l’ho comprato in lingua e devo dire che è ancora più bello che la versione italiana
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5.0 out of 5 stars This is what you need!
Reviewed in India on November 5, 2023
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Tyler is the most influential character for masculinity, leadership, communication and anything you want to learn.
The way of fight club is to do not talk about it.
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