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Title: Fight Club: A Novel
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
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| Fight Club: A Novel by W. W. Norton Fight Club:The novel for our generation. |
| Fight Club makes such a clear point about today's society. The apathetic nature of our generation allows us to search for something better without us being willing to actually create something better for ourselves. So instead of creation we are drawn to destruction- the new form of creation. Fight Club is a beautifully written satire that intrigues the reader from the very start. |
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| Sorry this is not a review, it's more a complaint. It's the second book I recieve from you with the pages badly cut. How can you deliver a book in that state? And please don't tell me that I can send it back, that would be really a nuisance... my time is valuable. I'm afraid that I don't feel like buying anything more from you, thank you... |
| Fight Club: A Novel by W. W. Norton Good Book If You Really Liked The Movie |
Why you Should/Shouldn't Buy this book.
The book is a fast and easy read, but a little chaotic at times.
I'm quite certain this was done to give the reader an authentic 'feel' for whats going on inside the narrators head.
Which it does...
But I HIGHLY recommend watching the movie first if you haven't already.
It does surprising justice to the book, and lays things out in a much more smooth and linear way.
Most of the memorable lines and quotes from the book are included in the movie, and both start off almost exactly the same, only beginning to differ the closer you get to the end.
If you hate the movie, skip the book.
You'll probably hate the book even more.
If you like the movie, you might enjoy the book, but probably won't miss much if you pass on it.
If you love the movie, I suggest checking it out for the few extra tidbits and alternate scenarios that didn't make it into the movie.
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*Review of book itself*
= Possible Spoilers=
Fight club is a great book in that it explores some of the darker sides of society and psychology that most people tend to ignore, or flatly refuse to acknowledge.
This forces the reader to think about and examine various concepts about themselves and situations in their lives that may otherwise have gone unnoticed.
Many examples of this 'forced self reflection' can be found multiple times throughout the book.
Such as in the "Human Sacrifice" and "Near Life Experience" scenarios.
However, like anything taken to far, the book clearly demonstrates the consequences of what can happen when any idea, even good ones, are taken to a extreme or cult level. Ultimately reversing any positive affect the prior may have had. Even to the point of working against the goal which it initially set out to achieve. |
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| If you've seen the film but not read the book, you should know they mirror one another in nearly everything except the ending. In all the movie captures the critique of modern society quite well, but the ending of the book is much better than that of the Hollywood portrayal. |
| Fight Club: A Novel by W. W. Norton Great Author, Great Book, Just Buy It |
"Fight Club" is a great book. It's just that simple. If you like books at all, you've got to read it. it's got grit and grossness that the movie doesn't even come close to. it's also got the type of pop culture satire that's funny and relevant and that only palahniuk seems to deliver these days.
more than anything it's a good story.
i read it about five times the first year i had it.
it's just cool.
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| Fight Club: A Novel by W. W. Norton Product Description |
The 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 |
