Welcome to Fight Club (The Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk)

Member Name: hawkida

Product:	The Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Date:	18/03/01 (174 review reads)
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Chuck Palahniuk wrote the novel "Fight Club" on which the movie is based whilst he worked a day job as a mechanic. He was involved throughout the film and was pleased to find that the final product accurately reflected the feel of the original and reports that he was impressed with the final result. For people who viewed the film before looking at the book the degree to which the film stays true to both the events and the feel of the novel this much will be obvious.

So why should those people read the book? Because it's different, is the short answer. Sure, if you've seen the movie the twist will not be such a shock, but the ending may well hold its own surprises. Fight Club is an emotive and hard hitting movie and the book pulls off the same. Much of what was portrayed on screen is faithfully taken from the book, but sometimes the book moves in a slightly different direction. It is a grittily written novel which exposes the corporate slick that hides the real world from many who interact with it.

For those who missed the movie as it gained its cult status, the book promises to be an even more engaging read. Fight Club tells the tale of a first person protagonist who drops out after meeting a charismatic character on a business trip. Tyler Durden becomes the narrator's link to feeling alive through the systematic tearing down of everything he previously valued.

The story is dark, often unpleasant but always wry and clever. The novel allows the reader to contemplate the themes at length or to pass over them enjoying the surface detail, the enigma that is Tyler Durden and the absurdity of the Paper House Soap Company.

Fight Club is worth your time.

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