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Fight Club

Chuck Palahniuk

Discussion: . Week 27: Finished in a Day

Why we're reading this: You either hate or love this book, there is no in-between.
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. Week 27: Finished in a Day

* Week 27: Progress Post
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Jan 21, 2015 Abhishek rated it really liked it

I was already familiar with the story, and the huge plot twist that happens around three fourths in the book, but the writing style was really gripping. It was so visceral and full of action. I really liked the choice of words and the cool, conversational style of the narrative.

Apparently there's this school of thought that Palahnuik's writing is misogynist, and I can see where that comes from. A lot of the core of the book was about the lack of father figures in the generation of the the narrat ...more

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Mar 14, 2013 Heather Godwin rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2015-pop-reading-challenge, fiction

This was by far one of the most interesting/complicated/well thought out novels I've ever read.
I'll put the rest in a spoiler tag because, well, spoilers.
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Oct 22, 2018 Veronica rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2018-around-the-year-in-52-books

Total mindf**k. You have provably heard the famous line "the first rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club. " This book takes you in so many directions that you don't really know what's going on until you get near the end and even then, you still wonder what you just read. Saying anymore will give things away so just read it. ...more

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