The writing is excellent...so excellent I can't believe he has more books

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	• Fight Club: A Novel Chuck Palahniuk W. W. Norton, 2005 - 224 pages average customer review:based on 639 reviews view larger image
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Great Novel, but if you've seen the film not much to gain here

Since the first rule of Fight Club is that you don't talk about Fight Club, I guess I shouldn't be writing this review. Oh well, let those chips fall as they may.

After many, many viewings of the movie, I finally convinced myself to check the book out.

I'll start out by saying that I truly enjoyed the book. Of course I did, the movie did an excellent job of capturing the nuances and the feeling of the book almost exactly. That being said, at times reading it, I really didn't feel (for almost the first time ever) that reading the book really wasn't all that necessary for me. Either Chuck Palahniuk had his finger in the pot the entire time that the movie was being made, or the director felt that the only way to bring such an amazing novel to the screen was to put in on film as close to word for word as the medium would allow.

If you've seen Fight Club more than a few times, reading the novel really won't give you any additional insight into the world of Tyler Durden. However, if you haven't seen the movie and want an interesting perspective on movie theaters, catering/waiters and making soap, then give Fight Club a try.

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Disturbing read, but well worth the effort

I had already read several Palahnuik books before tackling this debut novel, and I have found his writing disturbing, fascinating, and full of macabre twists. This one is no exception. I am intrigued by the concept that one must hit bottom in order to succeed. I have found this to be true, but not in the way Tyler pursues this theory.

Anyway, this is a really good book. The plot twist at the end was unexpected, but in looking back, I should have seen it coming. The book rushes to its conclusion, but it is satisfying in its speed. The concept of fight clubs proliferating across the country instigated by disturbed minds is quite something, even if, as the author notes in the afterward, fight clubs are not a new concept. Certainly the anarchy that results is new. I recommend this book for anyone who wants some thought with their horror.

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amazing

i just finished reading this amazing story.

i have seen the movie and love it!

i recomend the book even if you have seen the movie for not only is it different in some ways it gives you a different perspective on the story. Chuck Palahnuik did an amazing job on the story and i will definately be getting some of his other works

Better than the Movie

When first reading Fight Club, I was a senior in High School. The book caught my attention and featured a storyline that I could never have been familiar with at 18 years old. After reading it again as a 22 year old, I still have no insight to such a world of problems, but can certainly relate to people that I have met in the past. Fight Club is a novel that takes a wonderfully unique idea and expands it to the filth and scurge of society.

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The writing is excellent...so excellent I can't believe he has more books

I read the book yesterday twice (once before the conclusion and then after) and then the movie today. This book is AMAZING. I expected the book to be all about the fight club, etc, people he met, but it is not. It is a truly unique story, and both the movie and novel are great. If you haven't seen the movie, you probably will be like, "uhhh okayyy" for the first 100 pages and then you will slowly slowly slowly savor the last 110 pages. You will immediately be thinking about all the points in the book. You will read the novel back and realize the sheer genius of the writing.

One caveat: The novel has a lot of very, erm, interesting parts where a squeamish reader will have to put it down. I definitely did, and I don't get grossed out very easily.

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