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Title: Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk ISBN: 0-8050-6297-1 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 October, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.45 (477 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: tvtv3 doesn't know anything
Comment: How can someone say that Chuck P. can't write? Check out what books , movies, etc that tvtv3 likes. I'll save you the time, he is just into that mainstream garbage. Go back to reading Grisham and watching Independence Day or You Got Served or whatever else you deem "good".
Rating: 4
Summary: I know this because Tyler knows this
Comment: If you're coming to the book after seeing the film-it's ok to raise your hand here as your reviewer did also-you'll see the screenwriter pretty much took the book's contents verbatim. What's missing are a few funny moments like Marla's unwitting part in the soap-making process and some disturbing details of her's and Tyler's sex life. Plus a different and more satisfying ending (c'mon, you didn't think the narrator and Marla were really in love did you?)Palahniuk's jump-cut, stream-of-consciousness style take a little getting used to, but this is a clever black comedy that leaves you with more to think about than the punchlines when it's over. It's about a culture of numbness, where Huxley, not Orwell, was right and the only way to feel is to drive yourself to the limits of physical pain or destroy something beautiful. You've probably seen the movie and giving away plot details would just detract from the experience. Just read it!
Rating: 3
Summary: the downward spiral of generation empty
Comment: Whether Chuck Palahniuk new it or not, he created a living breathing leviathan of a cult favorite with "Fight Club," his apocalyptic f.u. to an American society too deeply entrenched in hopeless lies and false dreams of enlightenmnet. Palahniuk uses the story as a tool to vent some of his personal dogmas, it seems, so the story is not completely linear in the traditional sense, but more like different chapters that play out like their own short stories, with Palahniuk spouting semi-profound philosophical polemics that at times seem a little too contrived with mental effort.
The book is an interesting read, and Palahniuk's breezy writing style could be intelligible even to a fourth grader. The only problem I had was that since I had watched the movie first--which would probably be the case for anyone who is considering reading this novel now, unless, of course, you just woke up from a ten year coma--it almost reads like one of those tawdry movie novelizations, with so much of the material faithfully translated directly from the book to the film. Either way, the novel is short enough to finish in just a couple of sititngs, if that, and it would probably do you good just to see what all the hype has been about. Don't expect a literary masterpiece as some fans of Palahniuk may affirm, but read this more as an unbridled, hilarious roller coaster ride through the disillusionment camp of one addled soul and his noxiously dreadful sleeping habits...
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Title: Survivor : A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk ISBN: 0385498721 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 04 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Choke by CHUCK PALAHNIUK ISBN: 0385720920 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 11 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk ISBN: 0385722192 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk ISBN: 0393319296 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Diary: A Novel by CHUCK PALAHNIUK ISBN: 0385509472 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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