Fight Club
Good Books rating 3.64
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- ID: 90
- Added: 2025-09-02
- Updated: 2025-09-02
- ISBN: 9781448114955
- Publisher: Random House
- Published: 2011-11-30
- Reviews: 5
'Hypnotic, pitiless and told brilliantly' Bret Easton Ellis Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across America, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other. 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 revenge on a world where cancer support groups have the corner on human warmth. Read the subversive, savagely funny novel that defined a generation.
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- Palahniuk investigates human nature and critiques the way we live our lives.
- It’s simultaneously perverse and profound.
- Fight club becomes the catalyst for Project Mayhem (and then the sht *really* hits the fan!).
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- It was confusing, abstract, and hard to tell what was going on.
- Overall, not my favorite book of all time, but a unique reading experience.
- I felt immense pressure to read due to its seemingly universal presence in pop culture.
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- The novel thrives on its shock value.
- Project Mayhem's anarchist antics, once edgy, now read as childish and hollow.
- By today’s standards, the portrayal of mental illness is jarringly insensitive.
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- Caustic, outrageous, bleakly funny, violent and always unsettling.
- Palahniuk is a risky writer who takes chances galore.
- Utterly original creation will make even the most jaded reader sit up and take notice.
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- Fight Club is definitely recommended.
- Regardless of whether or not you've watched the film, the book is a must-read.