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Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
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Fight Club

by Chuck Palahniuk

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I liked it in a different way from the movie. I think it has a more logical ending. ( )
wikiro | Jul 9, 2009 |  
Very easy to read story that slowly unfolds to describe a man with multiple personalities that creates fight club and organises multiple guerrilla attacks on consumerism. ( )
Ardwick | May 25, 2009 |  
i loved this movie, and when i found out there was a book i just had to read it. i was surprised in how well the movie stuck to the book.

this book showed me a different writing style that i had no idea was out there. the characters, the plots, the minimal writing style. it was just an awesome read. ( )
allthatismuzik | May 17, 2009 |  
When nihilism becomes a fashion, it means that somehow it's vanishing.
This is still a funny book anyway. ( )
Ramirez | May 7, 2009 |  
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Dedication
For Carol Meader, who puts up with all my bad behavior.
First words
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.
Quotations
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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