Fight Club: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk

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Fight Club: A Novel

October 17, 2005 / 210 pages / Fiction

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

In his debut novel, Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation's most visionary satirist. 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 boxing matches in the basement of bars. There two men fight "as long as they have to." A gloriously original work that exposes what is at the core of our modern world.

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The prose style makes this book accessible, and while well written and complex enough to be engaging, it is entertaining and literary without being intimidating for readers who tend to dislike books with "symbols" and "deeper meanings".

Grade: A / Andy / Sep 4, 2013

This is a great book, I have read it many times! Unfortunately Chuck could never come close to this novel (in my opinion) and his other novels have left much to be desired.

Grade: A+ / NekroMarshall / Sep 4, 2013

I'm not really supposed to talk about it... Ha ha, just kidding. Quick and easy read. The first time I read it I sat down on my front porch after buying the book and blew through it in about four hours. Chuck says he was listening to Pretty Hate Machine by Nine Inch Nails pretty much the whole time he was writing it, so how could it be bad? You are the man Chuck.

Grade: A– / VonBrandtner

/ Jun 11, 2018

You have to read it before seeing the move for the full effect

Grade: A / noflag / Feb 18, 2014

I'm not entirely sure I like Palahniuk's style. Upon reading this book, I can say that I have a lot of respect for him as a writer, but its just not for me. This wasn't a bad book at all; I quite liked the story, and thought it was interesting, exciting, and had interesting things to say. I like that about it. His prose just doesn't do it for me, the way he writes is hard to describe, but I find it distracting rather than cool. Still a pretty good book.

Grade: C / BeardedHeckler / Aug 31, 2015

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