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Dec 27, 2011

Lou rated it:

1st rule about Fight Club is read the novel first! Well thats my rule, i watched the movie, when it came out years ago (most the population) and only now discovered the real Fight club.
The narrator is a traveling automobile company employee who suffers from insomnia. On advice from his doctor attends support groups and pretends to be a victim. He gains some emotional release here and feels part of a people and becomes addicted to attending these support groups as an imposter. He's More...

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Dec 16, 2009

ruzmarì rated it:

Mary Ann Evans, in the 1850s, spoke out against the notion that "lady novelists" were capable of producing only "silly novels" - precious, sentimental, illogical and improbable claptrap - while men produced high literature. She changed her name to George Eliot and wrote as a "gender neutral" narrator, highly educated and worldly, and mostly transparent (i.e., not silly).

The 1990s finds us again at a crossroads where literature is concerned, with the ris More...

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Sep 07, 2011

Paquita Maria rated it:

I finally did it. I stayed up late last night and I read the f****ing Fight Club. Normally, Chuck Palahniuk really pisses me off with his initially engaging and fantastically original stories which all too quickly turn into misguided ramblings about a bunch of asshole caricatures with preposterous lines like "we need to get you laid, brother" to signal the beginning of a plot twist (and the end of you thinking that particular novel is going to be any good). However, I must say that More...

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Dec 17, 2009

Kira rated it:

I read this book as a self-absorbed 18-year old and never looked back. Brilliant modern critique of western consumerism and masculinity, told through the story of an underground club of men who beat the hell out of each other as a way of working through their disillusionments.

Each sentence of each chapter is quotable, things like :
'You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pi More...

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Feb 25, 2009

HappyHippo rated it:

Gentlemen, welcome to Fight Club

*The first rule about fight club is.. You do not talk about fight club.
*The second rule about fight club is.. You DO NOT talk about fight club.
*The third rule of fight club.. Someone yells "Stop!" goes limp, taps out, the fight is over
*Fourth rule.. Only two guys to a fight.
*Fifth rule.. One fight at a time, fellas.
*Sixth rule.. No shirts, no shoes.
*Seventh rule.. Fights will go on as long as they have to. More...

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Oct 01, 2011

Buggy rated it:

Opening line: “Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after Tyler’s pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die”

There’s not much I can say about FIGHT CLUB that hasn’t been said already (besides I’m not supposed to talk about it -first rule of FC and all) It’s one of those books on everyone’s “to read” list and ultimately it's everything you'd expect it to be; disjointed, astonishing, dark, gritty and fantastic. Although I did wonder how you’d ma More...

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Jan 06, 2012

Ryan rated it:

Some people find Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club too ridiculous and far-fetched. What kind of man opts out? Who would give up his pension to bring down society during the week?

(It's a good point, and one that explains why the revolution has not yet been not televised.)

As for who, well, we need to approach this question carefully.

As we grow older, we become more invested -- trapped, some would say -- in the systems that our society has constructed for us. However, More...

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Aug 21, 2011

Cory rated it:

Apparently, I'm not a fan of post-modern literature. I don't get Bret Easton Ellis or Jack Kerouac. I like my stories structured and when stream of consciousness is used, I don't like to feel like I'm reading from behind a veil.

Fight Club has a brilliant premise and the first 100 pages are pretty good. Unfortunately, towards the end, it feels like Palahniuk ran out of steam and decided to ramble as long as he could until his quota was filled.

In books, I don't like to kno More...

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Jun 10, 2008

Patrick rated it:

When there is a book that I'm interested in reading that I hear is going to be made into a movie, I try to do my best to read the book before that happens. The reason for this is I don't want my impression of the book to be sullied by the movie. While watching a movie and thinking to yourself, "Hey, I remember that from the book!" Or, "Huh, that wasn't in the book. Interesting," or even, "That was in the book, but they did it differently. I applaud/deplore this decision, More...

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Nov 09, 2011

Marvin rated it:

Welcome to Goodreads Book Review Club.

The first rule is you don't talk about Review Club.
The second rule is you don't talk about Review Club.
The third rule is the review is over when Carpal Tunnel Syndrome sets in or the reader goes into a coma from terminally excessive verbiage.
The fourth rule is only two persons reviewing a book at a time. (think the Point-Counter Point parody on the original Saturday Night Live... "Jane, You ignorant slut!!")
The f More...

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Jun 05, 2008

Sarah rated it:

Dear Chuck,

I have tried to like you. Really, I honestly have. I tried to read Rant, I tried to read Choke and then I attempted this book. Rare is the moment where I realize I enjoyed the movie much MUCH more then then the novel it is based on. I simply do not like your style of writing, and I have been ridiculed by fanboys who will defend your honor to the grave. Your style comes off as unique, but I can feel the pretentiousness like a piece of meat stuck in between my teeth. You k More...

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Dec 28, 2007

Sara rated it:

I adore the way Palahniuk writes, it's like having someone back you into a corner and not knowing if they want to hit you or fuck you...the tension is immeasurable. His language speaks to the gut, the primal drives that undulate in all of us just beneath the surface of our civility. THIS is the authors magic, the ability to make us feel so much with stripped down and raw language. The words roll around in the head and make us THINK about our role in the modern consumer society: Who am I? What d More...

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Jan 24, 2012

29alabs rated it:

Es difícil describir Fight Club, es difícil hacerlo después de ver la película.

Creo si este libro lo hubiera encontrado antes de la película (Si mi dios, mi papá según el libro, no me hubiera bendecido con Cinemax mientras era adolescente), seguramente 14-años-yo lo encontraría en verdad entrañable, pero ahora me doy cuenta que es sólo un conjunto de citas citables (todas en la película, todas y cada una de ellas) añadidas a escenas con situaciones extrañas (o bueno, capítulos en el More...

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Feb 26, 2008

Joshua rated it:

To start with, the film is so far superior to this book it becomes a valuable example in the argument of "instances when film adaptations are better than the original books".
There. Ive said it.
Moving on.
No, his writing is not "good" nor is it "brilliant" or "Gritty" (one of my favorites, usually translates to bad). It is indeed bad writing. Bad from the perspective of literature. Bad when viewed through scope of history and the panth More...

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Aug 03, 2010

Pandasurya rated it:

yep, setelah dibaca2 lagi dan dipikir2 lagi novel ini sebenarnya layak dapat 5 bintang..:-)

***
Dan malaikat pun..*
a.k.a. Fight Club

Dan setelah semuanya
segalanya sedang menuju kehancuran

9..
8..
7..

Lalu kau membaca Fight Club
dan seperti tersadarkan bahwa
dunia tak pernah seperti yang kaubayangkan
ada dunia lain di luar sana
dan di dalam sini
: gelap yang luput dari kata
gelap yang terla More...

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Jun 10, 2008

Zachariah rated it:

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Aug 08, 2009

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May 26, 2009

Chris rated it:

Well, now I reckon y'all have seen the movie, so there's probably not a whole lot that you need to know about this book.

You know Tyler Durden.

He's the Id, the unchained spirit that wants what he wants and he wants it now. He's the voice in your head that tells you that everything is worthless, that chaos, death and the end of civilization would be better than anything our so-called "society" could ever create. He's the one standing over your left shoulder, whis More...

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Sep 03, 2008

M.C. rated it:

I remember that roughly seven or eight years ago, I watched "Fightclub" for the first time. My memory of the movie was vague: a psychopath-laugh, men beating the hell out of each other, and a bar of soap.

It was not until recently that I read the novel and re-watched the movie. Now it's different.

The language of the book is quite unique from most other books I have read because it is as though you are inside the mind of two people at the same time. It was fun to More...

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Jan 17, 2008

Robin rated it:

While this book is a personal favorite, it thoroughly divided my book club. A few others loved it as much as I did, and a few hated it (one member even advocated trashing every copy, an act that made my little librarian heart clench in shock and fear...) This book polarizes readers, and I think that can be good for a discussion. Fight Club became a touchstone book for disgruntled young men when it was published, and perhaps most importantly, got a whole generation of guys who didn't read at a More...

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Sep 27, 2007

Brian rated it:

I have found that few people are ambivalent about this book. Either they hate it or they love it. Either way, it's an original. It is almost impossible to compare Fight Club to any other book that I've read.

I once read a review of the movie (which does a pretty good job of capturing the tone and themes of the book) that said that the people who hated the movie saw it as a drama rather than the comedy that it was intended to be. I think that there is something to that idea.

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Jul 14, 2007

brook rated it:

"We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression."

yes, you can be a girl and still get fight club. it took me a long time to explain this to some of my male friends, but i think they finally understood.

one of few books that was turned into a film and ended up equal if not superio More...

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Feb 01, 2011

David rated it:

I found it really mesmerizing, dynamic and powerful. A must read.

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Sep 07, 2011

Paras rated it:

I would have liked it better may be if I wouldnt have seen the movie first but reading this book proved that there are things that can not be translated from writing

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Sep 24, 2009

Indah "Threez" rated it:

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6 comments like (5 people liked it)

Jun 04, 2011

Priscilla rated it:

Wow. That was different. REALLY different. I thought this would be a quick read. Just over 200 pages... was I wrong. I was really out of my comfort zone, and it took me about 30 pages to get into Chuck's writing style, and the narration. BUT, I thought it was clever and surprisingly funny at parts.

Initial thoughts:
1) If Chuck did his research, I know how to make home made bombs and soap.
2) Very clever. Very insightful.
3) Dark. Crude. Funny.
4) Narration style is very More...

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Oct 19, 2011

Saturdaymorninglove rated it:

Fight Club is my new favorite book.

I picked it up from the library this morning, started reading it when I got home, and didn't put it down until it was finished. I found out about Fight Club through Helena Bonham Carter, who is my favorite actress. When I looked her up on IMDB, I saw that she played Marla Singer in the movie, and whenever I hear about an interesting movie, I immediately check to see if it was first a book.

Marla Singer did not disappoint me. Neither did Ty More...

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Nov 13, 2011

Erik rated it:

I'd never heard of Fight Club, but driving back to Chicago from a weekend in the woods with Mike Miley we decided to take in a movie at one of those enormous multiplexes in Michigan City and settled into the one based on the novel. It was quite entertaining--a good choice.

Then, much later, I found the novel and, having heard it praised by a few people, read it in a sitting or two. The movie changed the experience of course as I kept on remembering the scenes of the novel as portray More...

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Sep 03, 2010

Michael rated it:

Fight Club, a brief reading of

It's ironic that we live in a world where outsider is a burgeoning club, where society tells me that I have to like a somewhat specific kind of media to belong to a group of people who feel they don't belong. You can't be an outsider and merrily drink up pop music and Oprah's book club, you have to look for something that is unique, even though there is a horde of like minded individuals looking for the same thing. Embracing 'Fight Club' brings these tho More...

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Jul 26, 2011

Ruby rated it:

Sometimes, you read a book and you don't know what to think of it.

And I've been thinking about what that means, and I think it's a good sign. You don't know what to think, because it's different from what you're used to. It's outside your comfort zone and therefore you can't label it. This was a confusing, violent, different read. And perhaps I could add "too" in front of all these adjectives, but isn't that what books are meant for as well? Yes, they can be comforting, but More...

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