From Publishers Weekly:

Featuring soap made from human fat, waiters at high-class restaurants who do unmentionable things to soup and an underground organization dedicated to inflicting a violent anarchy upon the land, Palahniuk's apocalyptic first novel is clearly not for the faint of heart. The unnamed (and extremely unreliable) narrator, who makes his living investigating accidents for a car company in order to assess their liability, is combating insomnia and a general sense of anomie by attending a steady series of support-group meetings for the grievously ill, at one of which (testicular cancer) he meets a young woman named Marla. She and the narrator get into a love triangle of sorts with Tyler Durden, a mysterious and gleefully destructive young man with whom the narrator starts a fight club, a secret society that offers young professionals the chance to beat one another to a bloody pulp. Mayhem ensues, beginning with the narrator's condo exploding and culminating with a terrorist attack on the world's tallest building. Writing in an ironic deadpan and including something to offend everyone, Palahniuk is a risky writer who takes chances galore, especially with a particularly bizarre plot twist he throws in late in the book. Caustic, outrageous, bleakly funny, violent and always unsettling, Palahniuk's utterly original creation will make even the most jaded reader sit up and take notice. Movie rights to Fox 2000.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.


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1. sothisdhampir (US, US shipping)
2. allthesepieces (US, ships int'l)
3. shovelmonkey1 (UK, ships int'l)
4. BokOrm09 (UK, posts within EU)
5. Jujuks (Portugal, ships within EU)
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8. Nukegara (Germany)
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CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

Off it goes to Texas! Sorry for the enormous delay, plz enjoy anyway!

Wunderbar! Don't worry about the delay, due to personal stress my reading has been slower than I like, but this arrived at just the right time, and after a long harsh day it was just what I needed to see. :) I've been anxious to read this book for a long while, and love the movie very much.I should be able to dive right in.

vielen Dank!! (I hope my little attempts at German were okay ,I am trying to learn it on my own.)

Wow....this is just such an amazing work of fiction. It dosn't sugar coat at all, it about as grim and down to earth as writing can get and that is always so refreshing to me. It's fast paced, and deep rooted to the darkest natures of the working class man. This book wasn't as raw as "Invisable Monsters", but it was every bit as wonderful. Thank you for sharing this!

I'll have it on it's way as soon as I can, I am rather low on money for a while so it may take a few weeks. :/