Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club: A Novel

Pros: An absolutely brilliant debut.
Cons: I didn't want it to end.

Chuck Palahniuk's FIGHT CLUB is a book I fear. Not because it's particularly frightening, but because I know I'll never write as convincing as this. And if that's true, if I'll never be this good, then what in the hell am I doing with my life? FIGHT ...

Pros: Chuck Palahniuk knows how to depict a dark future of the world with black humor, white-knuckle suspense, pithy observations, and ingenius plot twists.
Cons: Some of the things in here are in bad taste, such as Marla Singer's mother.

Chuck Palahniuk's debut novel, Fight Club, has acquired a following, and rightfully so, become a cult classic. It's filled to the brim with brilliant wordplay, insightful narration, and satirical anti-mainstream consumerism concepts. The...

Pros: nihilistic, weird, relevant, compelling, well-written
Cons: none (might cause raised testosterone levels and a tendency towards mayhem)

By now, pretty much everybody’s either watched the movie version of Fight Club or heard about it. If that’s the case, you can skip ahead to the section entitled So how is this different from the movie?. If by some miracle that’s ...

Pros: Unique tone & Voice; Engaging; Interesting style; Thought-provoking ideas
Cons: Short read

After watching the movie "Fight Club", I would never have known that there was a novel until the day I walked upon it standing on a shelf at a local Cole’s bookstore. Instantly, I picked up it up and was amazed by the depth that was relatively ...

Pros: A brilliant story with masterfully written characters makes this a most pleasurable read.
Cons: There are graphic scenes of violence that are not for the faint of heart.

This review comes to all of you humbly dedicated to one Donlee Brussel, a reviewer who has taught me so much in the ways of civilized society.

"Fight Club" is the debut novel from Chuck Palahniuk that takes everything your...

Pros: Gripping, funny, keeps you guessing, great for more than one reading, incredibly smart
Cons: Can be considered an anarchists cookbook, violent

Chuck Palahniuk has done something no other author has done before: written a book so incredibly compelling that I actually wanted to read it a second time in less than 24 hours of my first reading. This has got to be the most amazing and true to life...

Pros: Great story.
Cons: - -

It's tough to review this book because I saw the film first, so all I can do is give a compare-contrast type review, and even that is hard because there's not much to compare-contrast here. The book and the movie are almost essentially the same. With...

Pros: Razor-sharp social satire, concise and funny
Cons: Ideas and feel are captured so well in the movie that the book may be a disappointment

I avoided the movie Fight Club for the first six weeks of its disappointing theatrical run. When I saw it, I was blown away. I would have seen it two or three more times in the theaters if given the chance. I even braved the bad sound and...

Pros: beautiful character development and wonderful use of language to further the book along.
Cons: Rather violent in places, language use makes it a bit hard to follow in places

Let me begin this review by saying how difficult it actually is to write, for I fear giving away bits of plot in the book (or movie for that matter), however, I must trek forward.

The thing that I cannot express the most about this book is the...

Pros: darkly comic, intelligent, a brilliant satire on EVERYTHING...
Cons: hang on, I'm going to read it again to see if there is any...

Chuck Palahniuk is a genius... there, I said it... a GENIUS... Fight Club is perhaps the most brilliant satire of the American culture written in the last decade... focusing mainly on the balances between what people are and what they wish they could be,...

Pros: A brilliant look at the present from an interesting perspective.
Cons: Wish that I would have read the book before seeing the movie.

Mr. Durden, please forgive me. I am violating the first rule of fight club. The first rule of fight club is that you don’t talk about fight club. This review will not contain any significant spoilers, but I sincerely recommend that you just enjoy the...

Pros: Vivid description, shocking action, genius twists of plot
Cons: Not all the great details got into the film

I closed the book. I was a little stunned, shocked, thrilled - and then called a friend just to feel connected to someone. The sheer darkness of the book, the cold, sarcastic feeling of the writing is pure genius, and left me with the aftertaste of the...

Pros: Powerful story, memorable characters, great ending
Cons: The author's sentence structure is sometimes a nuisance

Fight Club is a rare phenomenon in that it works on two separate levels: both as a novel and as a movie. Like most people I saw the movie before I read the book and I am surprised to say that I like both equally, just in different ways.

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Pros: Easy read, immediately engrossing and no obvious ending
Cons: A bit helter skelter and if you've seen the movie, you know a major twist

Like many others I saw the movie based on this book when it came out in 1999. Brad Pitt was at the height of his powers and the preview grabbed someone of my age and stage. it was pretty good, but frankly I've grown to appreciate it more over repeat ...

Pros: This book could change your life.
Cons: An original hard cover copy of this book can run you $70+ on Half.com.

If you've seen the movie, great. If not, even better. On the surface, "Fight Club" is a book about bare-fist brawling, and misguided testosterone. But to any reader with an inkling of insight this book provides clever commentary on life in the "gimme...