Fight Club: A Novel

Chuck Palahniuk

Oct 2005 · W. W. Norton & Company

About this eBook

The first rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club.

Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist in this, his first book. Fight Club’s estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden, an enigmatic young man who holds secret after-hours boxing matches in the basements of bars. There, two men fight "as long as they have to." This is a gloriously original work that exposes the darkness at the core of our modern world.

Ratings and reviews

Before anything else, let me state that I did not watch the movie before I decided to read this book, so I wasn't sure of what I was expecting, so I think I can say that when I read this book, I was pretty open-minded regarding anything that could cross the story. When I was more or less in the middle of the book, I was starting to think that I had some kind of problem understanding what exactly was the point of this book. The story just didn't make any sense, it seemed like a series of random flashes of memory that the main character had. After I reached chapter 20, most of it started to make some sense, but when I finished the book, I had the feeling that it didn't really add much in my life. It has some very wise phrases, ok. In a subtle way, it says: "if you're doing something in your life that you don't like, stop spending time with that and go do something useful". And if that was the purpose of the book, I'm glad I was able to figure the message out. As for the Fight Club, the fact of it being there or not didn't really make much difference. So my overall thoughts about this book? It is fast-paced. It doesn't seem to obey to a logical order. It's made of random facts and occurrences that don't seem to have any connection, but they end up coming up together at a certain point of the book. Not exactly my favorite style. I get the feeling that I'll enjoy the movie a lot more.

Im a huge fight club fan. Ive watched the movie like 10 times and made people sit down and pay attention to how incredible it is all the time. And i finally got around to read the book(thank you google). And i have to say the movie was pretty true the book, but this is one of those rare occasions that i personally liked the movie better. The differences are minor, but major at the same time, and its the ending to the book that killed it for me. Seemed anti-climatic to me. Still great read.

Never found the movie to be as amazing as the human sheep did. .actually got bored hallway thru. Book not much better ..humans=dumber than other mammals yet they think they're the most intelligent yet so easy to manipulate..not impressed by this writer

About the author

Chuck Palahniuk is the best-selling author of more than eighteen fictional works, including Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, Choke, Lullaby, Diary, Haunted, Rant, Pygmy, Tell-All, Damned, Doomed, Beautiful You and The Invention of Sound. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.