Fight Club
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4.4
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Chuck Palahniuk
The first rule of fight club is you don't talk about fight club.Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for 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 revenge on a world where cancer support groups have the corner on human warmth.
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Author
Chuck Palahniuk
Pages
212
Publisher
Penguin Random House Australia
Published Date
2011-06-01
ISBN
1742745202 9781742745206
Ratings
Google: 5
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"Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
3/5 ⭐⭐⭐
This was fun as in a "I wonder what the book is like?" kinda fun and one of those rare cases where I preferred the movie. I also wonder how accurate some of the stuff is and am reminded of the Anarchist Handbook in a lot of places. "
Sarah
"If I could give this book more than 5 stars, I would. It is written in a unique and poetic way and definitely had some shocking moments. "
lilly b
"My favorite book of all-time. One of the most poetic pieces of literature I have ever read. "
Brandy Blake
"Threw me for a loop! Loved the book I wished the movie followed it exactly!"
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Taylor Sachs
"Might be better than the movie. It uses the medium to its advantage."
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Pip
"The book is just as stomach-turning as the movie. It was very interesting, though, to listen to the book already knowing the twist - instead of taking away from it, it actually gave it more depth."
Ricki Marking-Camuto
"I had high expectations when I started this book. Even though some parts were interesting, the book didn't really struck me as good."
Nadia Despain
"A brilliant display of toxic masculinity and the willingness for lonely people to feel wanted. The book encapsulates the idea that the tired and lonely will join a group just to feel loved, even if that group ends up being a terrorist organization."
Ash Yates
"I really don't like reading a book *after* having seen the film based on it. I can't help but see the actors in my head when I read the story, and I'd much rather see the ones my brain creates from the author's descriptions. Bah. Still, this is a good book. Hard to believe it was Chuck Palahniuk's first. If you've seen the film, you already have a pretty good idea of how he writes: staccato sentences, mired in small details, repetitive. Somehow, he makes the sum of these off-putting parts a good thing."
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