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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780393327342
ISBN number: 0393327345
Label: W. W. Norton
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 224
Printing Date: October 03, 2005
Publishing house: W. W. Norton
Sale Popularity Level: 574
Studio: W. W. Norton
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The very first rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club.
Chuck Palahniuk's outrageous and startling debut novel that exploded American literature and spawned a movement. Every weekend, in the basements and parking lots of bars across the country, young men with white-collar 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.
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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
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The Fight Club book version in my Opinion is much better then the Movie. The Characters are both explained more and there actions detailed to a greater degree. The situations that in the film made me laugh in the book because of the better explanations made me laugh harder and longer. If you have never seen the movie definitely read the book very first you won't be disappointed.
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A lot of the book is almost word for word like the movie, but the book expands on things that the movie didn't. There are some differences in the book. It's also pretty easy to read, I'm a very slow reader and I flew through this in about two days.
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Outstanding book!
Power animals, split personality disorders, soap, fighting, mayhem, support groups, tainted food, castration, the book has a little bit of everything.........
I unfortunately saw the movie, at least 5 times before getting around to reading this book. If you haven't seen the movie yet, STOP, read the book first!
I've read two other books by Chuck Palahniuk, this one is the best so far!
"Fight Club" is excellent, the characters, the dialogue. It's all amazing!
There are so many good lines in this book, its hard to describe, but here are my favorites-
"If your a male, and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And sometimes you find your father in your career."
"Tyler Durden the great, who was perfect for one moment, and who said that a moment is the most you could ever expect from perfection."
"How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash. I am Ozymandias, king of kings."
There are 8 simple rules for "Fight Club"=
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 very first night at fight club, you have to fight.
The movie adaption of this book, follows the novel pretty close! Ed Norton and Brad Pitt could'nt have done a better job!
Highly recommended to everyone and especially Palahniuk fans that may never have read (Chuck's 1st book)!
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The book arrived in perfect condition from Amazon. The movie was better!
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Any Chuck Palahniuk fan should own this book, a fun read. Even fans of the movie should own this book. Hell, everyone in the world should own this book. Amazon makes it so easy to do this.
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