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    Fight Club
    Fight Club
    Fight Club
    Audiobook5 hours

    Fight Club

    Written by Chuck Palahniuk

    Narrated by James Colby

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    About this audiobook

    THE FIRST RULE about fight club is you don't talk about fight club. Every weekend, in the basements and parking lots of bars across the country, young men with whitecollar 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJul 11, 2008
    ISBN9781436133005
    Fight Club
    Author

    Chuck Palahniuk

    Chuck Palahniuk’s fourteen novels include the bestselling Snuff; Rant; Haunted; Lullaby; Fight Club, which was made into a film by director David Fincher; Diary; Survivor; Invisible Monsters; and Choke, which was made into a film by director Clark Gregg. He is also the author of the nonfiction profile of Portland, Fugitives and Refugees, and the nonfiction collection Stranger Than Fiction. His story collection Make Something Up was a widely banned bestseller. His graphic novel Fight Club II hit #1 on the New York Times list. He’s also the author of Fight Club III and the coloring books Bait and Legacy, as well as the writing guide Consider This. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.

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    • 4/5
      This is a hard one to rank. It's great for Chuck Palahniuk but good as a stand alone novel. I just want to put out there that he writes the same novel over and over again (just like sci-fi by Michael Crichton and horror by Stephen King). This is probably his best version of his one book.

      As a stand alone it's hilarious. Dark humor yes, but if you didn't know that going in you'll figure it out soon enough. Hopefully you'll also pick up on the sarcasm. The entire book is written as a wry parody of subversion, rather than being a manual to subversion itself. They all sign up and join a group with a uniform and standard haircut to make sure that they are different... Whether you read it as the army, religion or the many people who read/saw this and wanted to be just like all of those individuals, it fits.

      Fun to read. Not dumb but subtly crafted either.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      I really struggled with this book, one minute you feel connected with the book another you have no idea what direction it’s taking you.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      Mean, angry ,hatful...not fun. Would not recommend. There wasn't a protagonist worth rooting for, all characters were pretty scummy. The movie was far better. I have heard this philosophy of you need to die to live, and loose everything before you can appreciate anything, enough. It is tripe and BS. Not all rich people are evil and putting your dick in someone's soup and peeing in it does not make you a hero. Neither does putting pornographic images in children's movies. The world here is ugly and so are the charecters.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Great book with a unique kind of prose similar to the generation beat

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      It's only after we've lost everything that we are free to do anything.

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    • 4/5
      Its superb

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    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed listening to this book, now I understand why the movie is a classic
    • 3/5
      One of those rare cases where you should really just watch the movie. The book isn’t bad at all, but the film keeps everything good about it and iproves upon it, so you won’t be missing out on anything except the boring stuff.
    • 5/5
      I had no idea the movie “Fight Club” was based on a book, but I am so glad that I finally read it. The book is amazing, the giant twist is prefaced perfectly and subtly, and the story is so extreme that you can’t help but love it.
    • 3/5
      I didn't think I'd be the type to like Chuck Palahniuk's work, somehow. But Fight Club is iconic, and I haven't seen the movie, so I thought -- by my dad's reasoning: he knows about the plots of soaps only because he says something you need to know to get on with other people, and possibly also to win pub quizzes, which both he and I do quite well -- that I'd better read it and find out what's going on.

      I actually enjoyed it a lot. I meant to pick it up for five minutes, read just a little bit, and then get to bed in time. Half an hour later I looked up. Oops.

      Despite never seeing the movie or reading the book -- despite not even being interested -- I figured everything out very swiftly, and I think it's because Fight Club is one of those things that you come across a lot in popular culture, and you just sort of learn about it by osmosis. Or maybe it was that obvious, I don't know, but I enjoyed the unfolding of it, even if I can't say I like the idea of a real Fight Club... I found it an oddly compulsive read for something I was so sure I wouldn't be interested in.
    • 4/5
      Not one of Chuck's best, but still a fantastic read
    • 3/5
      Read this to earn your 90s Edgelord Scout Badge
    • 5/5
      Fantastic book that I finally got to experience. Makes the movie that much better.
    • 5/5
      Epic. I wish edward norton could have narrated it. But this guy does a pretty good job too
    • 5/5
      This book is exciting, surprising, relatable and riddled with dark humor. It's a filthy trainwreck that managed to keep me entertained the entire way through.
    • 5/5
      Really great read, although has some triggering content. Definitely recommend though
    • 3/5
      It became good halfway of the road. The first 100 pages were eternal. Finished on dec 15 2019
    • 3/5
      It’s just a bit different from the movie… actually, the end is quite different. The messages and critiques about society are still very entertaining … but for teenagers I would say. Now that I’m an adult - “mature” - I can see how shallow these messages are. How rough. They are still cool.
      And the book is quite fast and entertaining so it was worth it.
    • 3/5
      Well narrated, the book wasn’t my cup of tea. But hey, made it to the end
    • 5/5
      Good Audiobook give it a try you won't be disappointed
    • 4/5
      No esperaba que me gustara tanto!!! Admito que al principio no le tenía fe ni entendía muy bien pero cerca del final fue excelente!!!
    • 5/5
      Recently, one of my students let me borrow her copy of "Fight Club" and told me that I HAD to read it. So I tried. But I really couldn't get into the first few pages. I hadn't watched the movie "Fight Club" in a really long time, so I decided to go back to the movie. Watching the movie made me remember why I had loved the story so much when I first saw it. I jumped into the book and finished it within just a couple of days. This is not something I usually do, watch a movie first and then read the book. But for some reason, it was necessary for me to have Ed Norton and Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham Carter in my head to truly get into the book. Now that I'm done, I can't wait to revisit the movie again to see how it compares to all the things I just experienced in the book. I won't spoil this review with any of my theories about Tyler or Marla or Bob or the nameless narrator (called Jack in the film), but I will say that I can't wait to talk Abigail (my student) about it on Monday!
    • 1/5
      Horrible Performance. The narrator missed the boat on this one
    • 5/5
      The movie was great, the book is much much better
    • 5/5
      Excellent read with a unique quirkiness that keeps one turn9ng the pages.
    • 4/5
      Great book! Really enjoyed it. Similar to the movies in a lot of ways
    • 2/5
      Re-read. Good, but not as good as first time as it's probably too dependent on the one plot device.
    • 3/5
      I enjoyed this book. Didn't blow my mind, but maybe it would have had a different effect had a read it before watching the movie. Chapter 6 was the original short story around which the novel was written, and I found Chapter 6 to be really solid when read as a short story. The rest of the book was slightly less solid, but still enjoyable.
    • 3/5
      I think I may have enjoyed this book more had I not seen the movie first. I like the author's writing style, but feel at times that it becomes repetitive. Though the book is good in its own right, if I had the choice between reading the book or watching the movie, I'd go with the movie.
    • 4/5
      I was pleasantly surprised by this novel; as someone who hated the Brad Pitt/Edward Norton movie, I didn't expect to enjoy it. But enjoy it I did! It's well paced, and what doesn't come off well onscreen is executed quite nicely in the text. I don't agree with the idea that men aren't "men" anymore because of civilization/commercial values, but it's presented in an interesting way, and definitely worth thinking about.