Cool.And short! Which I really appreciated, since I don't think this would be the kind of book you could drag out and have the same impact. The movie follows Chuck Palahniuk's *Fight Club* pretty faithfully (except the ending), but even if you have seen it, I would heartily recommend reading this. It's just so... well... done.I mean, everything is right there, staring you in the face, but I can see how you could completely miss what was going on if you were unaware of the underlying plot.Everyth...

The insomniac (and slightly unhinged?) narrator meets Marla in Support Groups (plural), and he meets Tyler Durden by way of a fight in a car park; his world is forever changed when Tyler brings him into the urban underbelly that is Fight Club, and he drags Marla into this sub-world too. He loves Marla, Marla loves Tyler, Tyler loves him, but most of all... Tyler loves Fight Club and the changes to the status quo it can bring.A classic debut novel by agent provocateur Chuck Palahniuk. Surely this...

"You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.” Fight Club is absolutely tragic in its reflection of the real world. It pisses me off to read it and to think about a world that could create such a situation. This might be fiction, but it’s packed with truth. The modern world is unfulfilling and depressing as hell. People sp...

This is satirical, cynical, and darkly intense. A total mindf**k.What kind of person in their right mind goes to support groups for cancer patients just to get some perspective on their own life and cure their insomnia? That's the kind of story this is. That’s how *Fight Club* begins. With an obsession with death. Then Fight Club is born. From blue collar to white collar. There are six rules in *Fight Club*. First rule: you don't talk about Fight Club. Second rule: you don't talk about Fight Clu...

I believe in love at first sight, and I’m talking about books. A few pages into The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin and I knew that this was the book I had been looking for my whole life. The same for Robert A. Heinlein’s brilliant The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. These books are speaking to me, the author and I are sharing a conversation and I am hearing what I want to hear but the writer, through the osmosis of shared visions, is saying for me what I want to say. I had nebulous thoughts and th...

The first rule of reading *Fight Club* is: you do not talk about reading *Fight Club*. Which is a good thing because I honestly have no clue what I just read. Man, this book by Chuck Palahniuk is *wild*. If you're looking for a crazy book review, look no further.

The first rule of *Fight Club* is: you do not talk about *Fight Club*, but...After winning the Oregon Book Award for best novel and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, Chuck Palahniuk’s visionary debut novel, *Fight Club*, was injected directly into the veins of mainstream fiction. Following the success of David Fincher's 1999 film adaptation, *Fight Club* achieved cult classic status and has become a disturbingly accurate interpretation of our modern world.The unnamed male narr...

Dear Chuck, I've tried to like you. I really, truly have. I tried *Rant*, I tried *Choke*, and then I gave *Fight Club* a shot. It's rare that I enjoy a movie WAY more than the book it's based on. I just don't dig your writing style, and I've been roasted by fanboys ready to defend your honor to the bitter end. Your style is supposed to be unique, but the pretension feels like a chunk of gristle stuck in my teeth. You know damn well most of your audience shops at Hot Topic, and you lead them by...

I wasn't sure if *Fight Club* would come off as self-absorbed and shallow in a post-9/11 world, but instead, I found it eerily prophetic. Looking back at the materialism and political correctness of the 90s, and Tyler Durden's reaction to it, you can feel all that pent-up, mama's-boy machismo just itching for something huge, fiery, and nasty to obliterate our precious little world. Well, with 9/11 and the Iraq War, we definitely got it. So… are all you guys happy now?Okay, the book isn't perfect...

Back in the 1850s, Mary Ann Evans challenged the idea that female novelists were only good for writing "silly novels" – you know, those precious, sentimental, illogical, and totally unbelievable stories – while men were the only ones capable of producing real, serious literature. So, she changed her name to George Eliot and wrote as a narrator who seemed like a highly educated, worldly, and mostly neutral observer (definitely not silly!).Fast forward to the 1990s, and we're at another literary c...