Fight Club
The book that inspired the 'defining cult movie of our time'
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4.4 • 108 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
The first rule of fight club is you don't talk about fight club.
Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as they have to. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything.
Fight Club is the invention of Tyler Durden, projectionist, waiter and dark, anarchic genius. And it's only the beginning of his plans for revenge on a world where cancer support groups have the corner on human warmth.
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.
Customer Reviews
Great social commentary.
This book shows how men’s loss of purpose can lead to bad outcomes. Authentically adapted to the screen.
Perfect title.
1. You do not talk about fight club.
2. You do not talk about fight club.
3. Best fiction novel I have ever read, loved every sentence. Underrated future classic.
4. One of the greatest, most unique and captivating writing styles I’ve ever come across.
5. If this is your first night… then you have to fight!
A modern classic
Twisted, dark and eye opening.
After going though similar things from the book involving self hate and suicide i can tell how chuck felt when writing this.