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Fight Club: A Novel Paperback – October 17, 2005

by Chuck Palahniuk (Author)
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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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  1. Book 1 of 1
    Fight Club Series
  2. Print length
    224 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    W. W. Norton
  5. Publication date
    October 17, 2005
  6. Dimensions
    5.5 x 0.7 x 8.3 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    0393327345
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0393327342
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  1. "It’s only after you’ve lost everything,” Tyler says, "that you’re free to do anything.”
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  3. At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.
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“Diabolically sharp and funny.”
- Washington Post Book World

“An astonishing debut.... ?a dark, unsettling, and nerve-chafing satire.”
- Seattle Times

“A noir fable with a potent punch.... A genuine, two-fisted talent.”
- Katherine Dunn

“Amazing and artful disturbance. ?Fight Club ?is for everybody who thinks and loves the fine American language.”
- Barry Hannah

About the Author

Chuck Palahniuk is the best-selling author of more than seventeen fictional works, including Fight Club Invisible Monsters, Survivor, Choke, Lullaby, Diary, Haunted, Tell-All, Damned, Doomed, Beautiful You and, most recently, Adjustment Day. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton (October 17, 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393327345
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393327342
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.3 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 15,517 ratings

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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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Customers find the book fantastic, riveting, and enjoyable. They say it's a great first novel and one of the most significant works of literature. Readers also mention the satire is vicious and masterful.

"i got paperback and it's a very nice material. can't wait to start reading!" Read more

"...I’ve loved the film since I saw it in the theater. The book is fantastic." Read more

"...MY IMPRESSION“Fight Club” is a fistful of fun and an enjoyable read that will punch you in the face. KA-POW! **..." Read more

"...Chuck Palaniuk's satire is vicious, masterful, a vision of a bloated culture set on the cutting board , inspecting with a dissecting eye...." Read more

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Customers find the story unique, intriguing, and exciting. They say it's a work of fiction to entertain. Readers also mention the plot unfolds incrementally at just the right pace.

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"...mental vault, the fact that someone had come up with such a powerful and compelling idea, executed it impecably on screen..." Read more

"...The story set up is great. It really is a super interesting concept. Don’t let my opinion of the narrator sway you." Read more

"...finest works of art that talks about societal issues, seeks the identity of the individual, and dares to empower the commoner to be subversive about..." Read more

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"...reading and reading, constantly trying to decipher why the writing style was so good and so bold and so... damn original...." Read more

"...His writing style is as spare and fit as his characters.That said, I’m not sure how well Fight Club has aged...." Read more

"...I said the writing is amazing. The story set up is great. It really is a super interesting concept. Don’t let my opinion of the narrator sway you." Read more

"...Far more nuance than the movie, however.... Chucks writing style can sometimes be confusing...." Read more

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"This is the debut novel of Chuck Palahnluk. It is a dark, disturbing novel. However it is very well written...." Read more

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"...The book more clearly maligns the actions as evil. Incredible read, pretty short and digestible. 5/5." Read more

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So I Have Watched The Movie 10+ Times - Still Enjoyed the book
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So I Have Watched The Movie 10+ Times - Still Enjoyed the book
It is true, the book is always better than the movie. Watching this movie in 1999 in New York City Theaters and I remember how much influence on my way of thinking, to challenge the hamster wheel, just as I was starting college.Of course the book is way cooler after you watched the movie, as you have Brad Pitt in your head and the other amazing characters from the movie - honestly I am not sure how much I would have enjoyed the book if I didn’t already have the amazing visual experience from watching the video.Yet by reading the book, you get so much more depth and feeling. Those quick 5 second clips in the movie now are written out in pages and you get the more granular feel of what is happening in Tyler and the character’s head (whose name we never know!).The ending is different in the movie and the book - and I saw that in the review when deciding to invest in reading the book or not - and that alone is worth going through it.What was surprising was how close the book and the movie are! Some of the exact lines are right from the book, and for the most part it is fairly straight along the the same storyline.As Fight Club is one of my favorite movies of all time, I of course will enjoy the book and it gives a new angle and dimension - I should probably watch the movie (yes again) to more fully compare the book and movie.
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Trin
5.0 out of 5 stars great quality!
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2024
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i got paperback and it's a very nice material. can't wait to start reading!
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5.0 out of 5 stars The world of Fight Club
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Having watched the movie was the strongest reason why I didn't feel the need to read the book. It always bumped in my mental vault, the fact that someone had come up with such a powerful and compelling idea, executed it impecably on screen (Norton's and Pit's acting was phenomenal; perhaps Pit's finest performances). I finally gave the book a try. I was surprised to see that the book was short. It didn't put me off at all, it was just an observation, especially after having watched the movie I expected a lengthier book.

As I read through the pages I was aware of the nuances with the movie, something that made my neurons glitch from time to time, for I expected one thing, yet found something else. Yet, Palahniuk's mastery of his unique style and narrative kept me reading and reading, constantly trying to decipher why the writing style was so good and so bold and so... damn original.

The story itself is strong, consistent to the bone and detail oriented without being overwhelming. I figured Fight Club was very successful because it defined a putrid, rotten world that exists within the human realm. Fight Club gave this world a face, a personality, a tangible morphology we could finally grasp. This world occupies the mind of the bluest, the raw material of hatred towards the organized, paved by those who seek to control through the creation of rules that determine a beings reality. This reality has a big blind-spot, and the world Palanhniuk described in Fight Club defined this blind-spot and exploited it. This blind-spot is an individual's need to feel unique, and yet, the opposing desire to feel he is part of a movement, a group, to be part of a collective. To be part of Fight Club one had to slay one's reality, to lay naked midst the ugly and emerged reborn, only to join a new set of dogmas. This is portrayed as the idea of propagating organized-chaos, an idea that spread through the mediocre like a virus. The virus lived among society cloaked under the veil of working men, men who seemed to follow a set of social rules; the virus unveiled during the night, during Fight Club. An integrant of Fight Club was a menacing soul in search of freedom, from social expectations and the boxed-in sensation felt by binding rules of how one must supposedly behave midst peers. The soul within Fight Club sought freedom, even from itself, only to be lured by its desire to belong, to be part of the clan: the paradox of wanting to be unique and yet, the inevitability of desiring to be part of cult, to be part of the change. Man's demise is served cold in Fight Club, for example, when Tyler makes soap out of fat rendered by liposuction--society's shame--, sold back to the thinned as soap, purchasing what once was thought as biological waste, now regarded precious and a standard of "high society".

To leave aside the story, I would like to mention Palahniuk's writing style. To achieve the deliverance of a message so profound, in such a raw manner, using short sentences and explicit imagery is indeed a literary achievement. I truly enjoyed this read, far better than watching the movie. The movie, however, is also an achievement in itself.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A great read, but it may be showing its age
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2023
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First things first: Palahniuk has a profound gift for language. His writing is poetic and punchy (no pun intended). Some reviewers have complained that Fight Club is difficult to read because Palahniuk doesn’t tell a straightforward story in a straightforward way, but I love a novel that forces me to do some of the work. Palahniuk lays out the dots and tells us to connect them. He sets a pace and demands that we keep up.

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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James
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2024
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Legendary book
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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing read.
Reviewed in Canada on January 12, 2024
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A foreman where I work got me into reading and I dabbled at most....until he handed me this book as a gift because I told him how Fight Club was hands down my favorite movie (and I've watched a he'll of a lot of movies) and he said that books are always better...boy was he right! Long live Tyler Durden.
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AlexO
5.0 out of 5 stars So good
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 16, 2024
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This was an absolute whirlwind of emotions from start to finish. So well written. Really enjoyed it. Better than the film!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good enough
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Stefano
5.0 out of 5 stars Adoro questo libro
Reviewed in Italy on January 19, 2024
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Per migliorare in inglese l’ho comprato in lingua e devo dire che è ancora più bello che la versione italiana
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PTT Kargo ile yapılan gönderim hususunda soru işaretlerim vardı ama sorunsuz şekilde ulaştırıldı. Gelen kitap kapağı ile satıştaki görsel arasında fark mevcut. Filmden sonra yeniden basıldığı için kapakta da oyuncuların görsellerine yer verilmiş. Bilginize.
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