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A Classic, Aoû 26 2005
Dark and funny like Bret Easton Ellis (LESS THAN ZERO) and psychologically promising and funny again (think McCrae's KATZENJAMMER), FIGHT CLUB is one of my all-time favorite books (and movies.) Chuck Palahniuk is on his way to becoming a writer of the 21st century. A disturbing look at society today follows that of an insomniac suffering depression. He finds salvation and doom in that of Tyler Durden, a soap making outcast who forms a club with the insomniac. FIGHT CLUB where men beat each other fist to fist in raw matches testing one's strength. This book is dark, unflinching, and breaks all barriers of what would happen in our society if it were to break down. The fight club eventually elevates beyond the men's control and becomes a nationwide movement. This is probably one of the best books ever written.
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Any book with an excellent plot and twists for days, Oct. 2 2006
I'm really a reader who like a great plot, but not just a plot that makes sense: I want something that doesn't always go where I'm expecting it to--you know the types of books, "Fight Club," by this guy (Palahniuk), "Kite Runner," or possibly the wild romp, "Katzenjammer" by McCrae. All have that really twisted sense of purpose and timing. But no one does it better than Chuck P, himself. Believe it or not, this book is actually better than the movie.
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awesome, Mai 31 2008
this is an amazing book. if you've seen the movie there won't be any surprises, but the book goes more in depth into the concepts and such so the reader can get a firmer grasp on the ideas the author is trying to convey.
the story starts off with this guy who's going to these anonymous groups for people with terminal diseases, but he doesn't have a terminal disease. so right at the beginning of the book we have the main character searching out destruction as a way to solve his discontent. the cause of his discontent of course would be that he feels he doesn't belong within his own society, that his individual self has no presence when interacting with society as a whole. so the individual revolts against society, reasserting its authority over itself. and this would be the reason for fight club. what makes fight club so wonderfully appropriate as a beacon for the individual to rise up against society is that society finds the concept of fight club so abhorrent, it doesn't understand the logic. society's morality dictates that we are all special individuals that are to cherished. we are all special individuals... something of an paradox, but as we all sway to society's rhythm we can see the logic. but if we take this statement apart and apply it to our own lives, because the western world believes this to be true, generation me as an example, and yet we are all alienated and desire/ are forced to be the same. one of the mantra's in this book was 'i am not a special snow flake' or something to that effect. by denying society's morality, the individual recognizes their discontent and counters it (of course in real life the contrasting extreme is no better than what caused the trouble in the first place, but one very much deserves the other... and its great for symbolic purposes:P). the members of fight club act in a way that society does not comprehend so that the individual can gain autonomy over itself, wresting itself out of the numbing grasp of society. this would manifest itself as destructive behaviour, both towards the self and towards the other, desiring the loss of the individual in a crowd, looking beneath the superficiality we create around ourselves to present as an image, and presenting something unacceptable in its place.
besides the extreme need for society and the extreme need for the individual there is also the need for balance, hence there being three components to the novel. the aggravator, the aggravatee, and something detached from both. the aggravator would be society, whose desire is to quell individuality and can be found in characters that are 'normal' like the guy's boss, or the very motivation in each of our heads and within the scope of each character's awareness to conform to the bigger picture. the individual would contrast this in it's desire to rise up out of society establishing its autonomy over itself, and this can be found in the idea of fight club and those who believe in it's teachings. the third party would be able to see the benefits and flaws in both extremes, and that would be our narrator, or even the reader, and this person sees a need for both.. or a need for neither.
it was very symbolic, which i enjoyed, but if you're not the type that goes for symbolism... well it'll tap into your rebellion or something.. and it has the fighting (which is you revelling in the symbolism but denying it!). great book though. i recommend.
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