"Only when we die, do we truly have a name" (The Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk)

Member Name: holdencaulfield

Product:	The Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Date:	13/11/00 (387 review reads)
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Advantages: Violence + Philisophy = Good Stuff

Disadvantages: Ending wasn't as good as the movies

As you can tell from my title, Fight Club is a very philosophical book and movie. We are taken through the book by our Narrator and a lot of pensive subjects occur like "you are not an individual snowflake", which completely destroys the philosophy most people have on life. This making the book and movie a lot more interesting and intriguing then if it had been simply Violence non-stop.
If you have had the great pleasure of seeing the movie then you will want to know what the book was like in relation to the movie. Well I'll tell you the book is a lot more graphical, as it gives some very gore filled moments such as the eye ball that pops out in the film as well and when 'someone' bites off their tongue during a fight and it falls to the floor.
Also the book obviously has moments where it is completely different to the movie as well as moments where different characters are involved.
The book is very close to the story in the movie and the movie was changed as much as you would expect it to be in relation to the book.
The book is very well written for a cult and the story is well set out and is a little different from how it was set out in the movie.
Palahniuk has written this novel using great deals of strong imagery that at times can make you feel quite sick.
Fight Club is based upon groups of people who decide to spend nights fighting one another in a Club that is kept a great secret, later on they evolve to Project Mayhem, an organisation fixated on destruction of society. It is packed full of Violence and moments where it becomes perversely philosophical.
If there were any one flaw to the book I would say that it is the confusion you may experience through not knowing when the Narrator is talking, as Palahniuk restrains himself from using quotation marks for the Narrator.
Fight Club the book and movie are both as good as each other, even though they are quite different in certain respects like the ending fo
r example. If I had to choose between the two however, I would have to choose the film simply because I prefer the ending to it to the one in the book.
If you are a serious 'Fight Club' fan like I am myself, I recommend buying this book. It does actually help you understand the movie a lot more and understand insomnia a lot better.

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