Fight Club
5 journalers for this copy...
This book was just ok. Maybe I would have enjoyed it more if I hadn't already seen the movie.
This is going in the mail today to sarradee. Enjoy!
I too want to see how it compares to the movie, and am afraid I'll find it lacking. :) Thanks for putting it in the box.
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.
From the Back Cover:
An underground classic since its first publication in 1996, Fight Club is now recognized as one of the most original and provocative novels published in this decade. Chuck Palahniuk's darkly funny first novel tells the story of a godforsaken young man who discovers that his rage at living in a world filled with failure and lies cannot be pacified by an empty consumer culture. Relief for him and his disenfranchised peers comes in the form of secret after-hours boxing matches held in the basements of bars. Fight Club is the brainchild of Tyler Durden, who thinks he has found a way for himself and his friends to live beyond their confining and stultifying lives. But in Tyler's world there are no rules, no limits, no brakes.
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.
From the Back Cover:
An underground classic since its first publication in 1996, Fight Club is now recognized as one of the most original and provocative novels published in this decade. Chuck Palahniuk's darkly funny first novel tells the story of a godforsaken young man who discovers that his rage at living in a world filled with failure and lies cannot be pacified by an empty consumer culture. Relief for him and his disenfranchised peers comes in the form of secret after-hours boxing matches held in the basements of bars. Fight Club is the brainchild of Tyler Durden, who thinks he has found a way for himself and his friends to live beyond their confining and stultifying lives. But in Tyler's world there are no rules, no limits, no brakes.
I found so many places throughout the book where Palahniuk alludes to the secret twist at the end, that I wonder if I wouldn't have figured it out even without having already seen the movie and knowing. Not my favorite of his books, I still like Lullaby the best.
My husband (Jaghatai) laid claim to reading it next when he saw it on my desk, so I've added it to his stack.
My husband (Jaghatai) laid claim to reading it next when he saw it on my desk, so I've added it to his stack.
On its way to Kiri who figured it out in the Treasure Hunt relay.
It's arrived.. and it is now fighting to be read.. ;) *grin* Thanks! I wasn't ever able to sit through the film - so we'll see if I make it through the book!
I got this from a fellow Goodreads Bookswapper. So exciting to find a fellow Bookcrosser!
I really enjoyed the book! It was about the same as the movie.
Journal Entry 9 by grobarka59 at -- Wild released somewhere in the state, Maryland USA on Tuesday, May 4, 2010
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Requested via Goodreads Bookswap! Off you go...
Requested via Goodreads Bookswap! Off you go...
Most excellent, I feel the need to do perhaps a fight club marathon; book followed by movie. I relish the chance to read any Palahniuk book.
