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Fight Club

by Chuck Palahniuk

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  1. sacredheartofthescen recommends American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, "Both about bored men in American society that found odd ways to fill their time and become what they want to be."
  2. keristars recommends The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Palahniuk says in an afterword that Fight Club was intended to be similar to the Great Gatsby. In a way, it really is - there's a similar mood and sort (see more) of feeling of despair at modern society, though the Great Gatsby was written and occurs seventy years before Fight Club. The relationships between the primary three characters in each novel are also similar."
  3. tankexmortis recommends Ultra Fuckers by Carlton Mellick III, "Like Fight Club, Ultra Fuckers is anti-conformist and could be beloved by hipsters. Unlike Fight Club, Ultra Fuckers does not take itself very seriously. (see more) It's also much more weird."
  4. catdog2 recommends Mr. Overby Is Falling by Nathan Tyree, "similar themes"
  5. arthurfrayn recommends The Wasp Factory by Iain M. Banks
  6. Ti99er recommends Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
  7. CarlosMcRey recommends The Seven Madmen by Roberto Arlt, "Like Palahniuk's Joe, Arlt's Remo Erdosain seeks salvation through depravity and self-destruction in the midst of an urban wasteland."
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Four hours of explosive reading. WOW. DAMN. SHEESH. I've watched the movie and only now got the chance into explore deeper to the fascinating character(s) in this novel. Truly diabolical, vivid and gutsy. I applaud you, Mr. Palahniuk. Awesome debut. Will certainly read Choke etc one day. ( )
  Choccy | Dec 6, 2009 |
OVERALL 4/5
A psychological thriller, with blatant critique on consumerism and wasteful spending, as well as the meaning of being a man in a "generation of men raised by women". The narrator is unintentionally funny in the deadpan way, and while the story skips between events and timelines, it is all the more like you are living inside his insomnia-plagued head. The twist at about two-thirds of the way in was very well played, and ties together a lot of the quirks and seemingly innocently repeated lines since the beginning. There were blatant statements of misogyny though, but depending on the reader it could be taken offensively or as just another facet of the characters' deeply disturbing psyches.

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1 vote angeltyuan | Nov 20, 2009 |
Inventive and well written with many superb ideas. This is not exactly my cup of tea but I can appreciate the crift and creativity. ( )
  jwcooper3 | Nov 15, 2009 |
A classic. One of the few books where the movie may actually be better. ( )
3 vote ccavaleri | Nov 12, 2009 |
A novel that will make you think (and possibly make you nauseous). Ultimately, I reject almost every conclusion Fight Club draws about the world we live in. But you cannot dismiss them out of hand. ( )
1 vote SendersName | Nov 11, 2009 |
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This brilliant bit of nihilism succeeds where so many self-described transgressive novels do not: It's dangerous because it's so compelling.
added by Shortride | editKirkus Reviews
 
Every generation frightens and unnerves its parents, and Palahniuk's first novel is gen X's most articulate assault yet on baby-boomer sensibilities. This is a dark and disturbing book that dials directly into youthful angst and will likely horrify the parents of teens and twentysomethings. It's also a powerful, and possibly brilliant, first novel.
added by Shortride | editBooklist, Thomas Gaughan
 
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.
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For Carol Meader, who puts up with all my bad behavior.
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Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.
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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.

– Fight Club, pages 48–50
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Amazon.com (ISBN 0099283336, Paperback)

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

(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:55 -0400)

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