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Fight Club: A Novel Paperback – October 17, 2005

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The first rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club.

In his debut novel, Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation's most visionary satirist. Fight Club's estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden, an enigmatic young man who holds secret boxing matches in the basement of bars. There two men fight "as long as they have to." A gloriously original work that exposes what is at the core of our modern world.

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The 2008 audio edition of Palahniuk's ground-breaking 1996 novel provides a timely opportunity to contemplate the direction of Generation X and the wider, popular culture over the past dozen years. The white, male, 20-something angst of the story's unnamed protagonist and his mysterious partner in crime, Tyler Durden, may now sometimes seem like slightly dated grunge rock. Also, the themes of domestic terrorism and insurrection certainly play differently in a post–September 11 world. Yet Palahniuk's power to provoke our collective sacred cows remains undeniable. The narrative—with its delusional twists and turns—presents serious challenges on audio. James Colby cleverly plays deadpan cool through much of the early plot exposition so that the chaos that eventually takes hold becomes all the more eerie and surreal. He pulls off the convoluted climactic revelations with emotional authenticity. The listening experience may be too jarring for general audiences merely hoping for a commute diversion. However, the release offers today's crop of young urban hipsters an opportunity to connect with the voices of a previous decade. A W.W. Norton paperback (Reviews, June 3, 1996). (July)
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In the world of Fight Club, healthy young people go to meetings of cancer support groups because only there can they find human warmth and compassion. It's a world where young men gather in the basements of bars to fight strangers "just as long as they have to." And it's a world where "nobody cared if he lived or died, and the feeling was fucking mutual." Messianic nihilist Tyler Durden is the inventor of Fight Club. Soon thousands of young men across the country are reporting to their work cubes with flattened noses, blackened eyes, and shattered teeth, looking forward to their next bare-knuckle maiming. The oracular, increasingly mysterious Durden then begins to harness the despair, alienation, and violence he sees so clearly into complete anarchy. 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. Thomas Gaughan --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

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Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton (October 17, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0393327345
ISBN-13: 978-0393327342
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.3 inches
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Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1,786 customer reviews)
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Being tired isn't the same as being rich

ByHHon September 24, 2016

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One could dismiss "Fight Club" as a predictable techno-thriller about testosterone-driven males, alienated from society, who find salvation in fighting other guys, bare-knuckled, in dark basements, until one of them goes limp. But that would miss the more interesting archetypal point Palahniuk explicitly trying to make. This is a book about the psychological development of a young man who had no father to help him make sense of the postmodern world, his split-off shadow, and ultimately the healing power of coming into a relationship with that raw, disturbing underground part of himself. The ego must be willing to inflict the blow itself, and strong enough to survive it.

"Fight Club" is an imperfect novel. But Palahniuk's ambitious attempt to suggest that our efforts to integrate disowned parts of ourselves could help free our psyche from the grip of corporate power and pervasive consumerism is enough to make it interesting. For all people who care about finding out the truth about who they are, this novel is a virtual manifesto!

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Just Buy This Book

BySarafina Donaldon May 19, 2017

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Great book, no matter how many times I read it I learn something new. Obviously Fight Club is about violence, but it's about fighting and how men are trying to claim back their natural born masculinity in a day and age where we are told to be white collar workers and work cushy day jobs behind a computer monitor, requesting "cornflower blue." There's some sexual content, like in the movie, and whether I should describe this as written in first person or second person is beyond me. After all, the guy has split personalities. So what do I put here? Hmmmm. Whatever. Just buy this book.

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A fun read and a bit of a meta-fiction tale.

ByAloysious Novak Jr.on February 20, 2017

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A wild read. However, I was a bit disappointed by the author putting himself into the story line. It just seemed a cheap writing trick. The rest of the story is okay, a bit convoluted but easy to follow. I'm glad it was released as a comic book instead of a novel. I don't think the writing would have held up in novel format. I like that the author referenced the original book and poked a bit of fun at the film. (I actually enjoyed the book better than the film, and I loved the film.)

That all being said, I'm happy with my purchase, the book is of high quality and I look forward to revisiting it at a later date. So if you're curious as to the future of Tyler Durden... I recommend you pick this up and read it.

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This story is garbage and just a regurgitation of the original with no ...

Bymax rockatanskyon July 7, 2016

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This story is garbage and just a regurgitation of the original with no original ideas. What a joke and a complete waste of time for the reader and author.

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Good read!

Byruthon June 16, 2017

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It's an interesting book, unneeded it for my college English class but it's an appropriate book for maybe 14+.

Far warning it is a voilent and sexually charged book but it really does give a good insight on people with schizophrenia. It's a very easy read because of the writing style, also a little different from the movie. I believe in the movie Tyler and the narrator meet on a plane but it's VERY different in the book but the books explanation plays more into how Tyler takes over the narrators life.

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A very modern book about lost men.

ByFrancisco Toniazzo Machiavellion May 27, 2013

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There is a couple of things to be said about this book.

As far as it concerns the structure of the book, be sure not to miss the afterword, where the author explains it well. Sufice to say that although not a traditional one, it has the virtue of keeping your interest without making you loose the thread very often (sometimes it does get a little confusing).

There isn't much to say about the individual characters, aside from the main one, which I will not comment, because I don't want to spoil it.

As far as the plot is concerned, it is interesting, and from the very beginning it grabs your attention. There are some inconsistencies, but acceptable ones.

The most interesting thing about the book, though, is how it suceeds in approaching the insatisfaction, the unhappinnes and the void in the lifes of a large portion of today's society. You don't go to a place where you will beat people up (or, even worst, be yourself beat up) if you have anything else going on in your life. There people don't.

A lot of the fight club members call themselves the "waste of society", etc. The book talks about men who become poison because they don't know what else to be. And it is the plausibility of this feeling that gives the book its impact.

It should be interesting to Read this book having In mind real life radical organizations, such as neonazis.

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Buy It!

ByNicoleon June 17, 2017

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I love this book! I'm kicking myself over how long it took for me to finally get around to reading it--seriously, I should have read this book ten years ago. It's absolutely wonderful, especially for those of us that enjoy analyzing people and frequently find ourselves in deep, thoughtful moods. I highly recommend this to anyone and everyone wholeheartedly however! The worldview presented in the novel is worth seeing, especially for anyone in North American society.

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Incredible.

ByRGon June 1, 2017

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I adored this book. I watched the movie a couple days ago and loved it, and immediately afterward decided to purchase and read the book. I'm so glad I did, because the book is 100000000 times better than the movie. The writing style is so engaging and the ending is satisfying. I'll be recommending this book to all of my friends, regardless of how much they enjoy reading.

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An excellent read, a rhythms runs through the whole story keeping a grip of your attention.

Published 4 days ago by Alexander E Davidson

Read it even if you watched the film

An incredible book, even if you have already watched the film. I usually hate fiction, but this is superbly written and has an incredible rhythm.Read more

Published 5 days ago by Nicola Peluchetti

Bad sequel. Palahniuk pretentiously wrote himself into the book ...

Bad sequel. Palahniuk pretentiously wrote himself into the book brainstorming ideas for the book, just stupid

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The Best Book I've ever Read..

Published 9 days ago by Jacob C.

it was terrible.

Except for the artwork, it was terrible.

Published 11 days ago by Kev

A new classic

Fight Club has many entertaining qualities, but my favorite is its question of self. What does it mean to be human?

Published 16 days ago by CJ

Good price. Good quality

Exactly as described. Good price. Good quality. Would recommend.

Published 18 days ago by Chicken Sticks

So this is the book one of my favorite films ever is based on!

I have only read two books from Chuck Palahniuk, counting this one (the other being the spectacular Survivor), and I really enjoy what I've read.Read more

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The first rule about reviewing the book ‘Fight Club’ is don’t review ‘Fight Club’.

The first rule about reviewing the book ‘Fight Club’ is don’t review ‘Fight Club’. OK everyone knows the first rule, it’s become a cultural phenomenon.Read more

Published 1 month ago by Drew (@drewsant)

Disgusting, Repeated, and Unnecessary constant violence.... I hated this book...

I bought ths book at the urging of my daughter. I really HATED this book and could not get more than about 2/3 of the way through it. (I don't give up easily!Read more

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