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Fight Club Hardcover – Deckle Edge, August 17, 1996
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Chuck Palahniuk's startling and outrageous debut novel, basis of the hit movie starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton.
THE FIRST RULE about fight club is you don't talk about fight club.
Every weekend, in the basements and parking lots of bars across the country, young men with whitecollar 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.
- Print length208 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherW. W. Norton
- Publication dateAugust 17, 1996
- Dimensions5.9 x 0.9 x 8.6 inches
- ISBN-100393039765
- ISBN-13978-0393039764
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"Fight Club offers diabolically sharp and funny writing."
― Washington Post Book World
"A powerful, dark, original novel . . . a memorable debut by an important new writer."
― Robert Stone
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- Publisher : W. W. Norton; First Edition (August 17, 1996)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 208 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0393039765
- ISBN-13 : 978-0393039764
- Item Weight : 13.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.9 x 0.9 x 8.6 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #29,972 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #271 in TV, Movie & Game Tie-In Fiction
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Chuck Palahniuk's nine novels are the bestselling Snuff, Rant, Haunted, Lullaby and Fight Club, which was made into a film by director David Fincher, Diary, Survivor, Invisible Monsters, and Choke, which was made into a film by director Clark Gregg. He is also the author of the non-fiction profile of Portland Fugitives and Refugees and the non-fiction collection Stranger Than Fiction. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.
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Palahniuk is also a master storyteller. The plot of Fight Club unfolds incrementally, at just the right pace. Pieces gradually click into place until everything gels at the end—and blessedly, Palahniuk knows exactly when that end should come. He doesn’t drag out things for hundreds of superfluous pages. His writing style is as spare and fit as his characters.
That said, I’m not sure how well Fight Club has aged. That’s not because of any “un-PC” elements in the plot (although those definitely exist). It’s more because of the book’s fairly naive view of how the world works and how it can be changed.
Fight Club purports to be—at least to some degree—a response to capitalism and consumerism and their “emasculating” effect on society. It’s no stretch at all to compare the community of men created by the book’s fight clubs to today’s real-life Proud Boys. Like Tyler’s “space monkeys”, the Proud Boys have generated attention and taken some action, like helping to launch a failed coup of the US government on January 6, 2021. But ultimately, the actions of both groups—the space monkeys and the Proud Boys—seem like futile, misguided attempts to reclaim some fabled masculine identity.
If the book were written today, all of Tyler’s explosive know-how would have to be channeled into screen-friendly social media campaigns. The Proud Boys have shown that, at least in America, brute force alone can’t compete with the power of influencers, the vast budgets the fuel consumer culture, or the other complexities of capitalist society.
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I would rate this book 8.5/10.
The story is attention catching.
Well written. Gives the vibes of dark anarchy.
Random Profanity and sexual stuff is there in the story.
However I didn't feel connected to the story, probably because I'm used to more classic literature. But still it's a good book of you need something interesting to read.
3 Stars
I don t talk about Fight Club . I just review it
This is yet another book that I have read after seeing the movie . This has catapulted my respect for moviemakers hugely . How could someone read apparently mediocre or vague stuff like Fight Club or No Country For Old Men or American Psycho & invest so much to make a movie of out it ? The source material just seems too soporific . All these movies don t dwell enough on the inner workings of the main characters' minds or say something deep that leaves an imprint on your mind .
Fight Club is about hating consumerism , not having any direction in life & socialism made glamorous by some clever dialogues . If I had nt heard Brad Bitt mouthing them I would stopped reading this book after 5 pages
It is a book that can induce weak minds to go into depression & think violence solves problems
The movie was made by my fave David Fincher . I liked it when it started but I think it became boring & overly dark after half . Dystopian is fun when its creative not when it is dark for darkness' sake
Reviewed in India on June 18, 2023
3 Stars
I don t talk about Fight Club . I just review it
This is yet another book that I have read after seeing the movie . This has catapulted my respect for moviemakers hugely . How could someone read apparently mediocre or vague stuff like Fight Club or No Country For Old Men or American Psycho & invest so much to make a movie of out it ? The source material just seems too soporific . All these movies don t dwell enough on the inner workings of the main characters' minds or say something deep that leaves an imprint on your mind .
Fight Club is about hating consumerism , not having any direction in life & socialism made glamorous by some clever dialogues . If I had nt heard Brad Bitt mouthing them I would stopped reading this book after 5 pages
It is a book that can induce weak minds to go into depression & think violence solves problems
The movie was made by my fave David Fincher . I liked it when it started but I think it became boring & overly dark after half . Dystopian is fun when its creative not when it is dark for darkness' sake














