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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780393327342 ISBN: 0393327345 Label: W. W. Norton Manufacturer: W. W. Norton Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: October 03, 2005 Publisher: W. W. Norton Studio: W. W. Norton Editorial Review: 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - a thought-provoking bookFor those of you who have never seen the movie, this book is a disturbing portrait of a narrator who begins to express his natural instincts and, before he realizes it, is terrified by what he has become a part of, leading up to a twist that you never saw coming. For those of you that have seen the movie, yes, it does translate well into book form. There is much more psychological introspection and more recurrence of themes (such as the line "look up into the stars and you're gone"). ... Read More Rating: - 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 ... Read More Rating: - Better then the Movie in both Plot and HumorThe 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. Rating: - better then the movieA 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. Rating: - 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 ... Read More |
