The Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk Reviews

Chuck Palahniuk writes FIGHT CLUB which was later turned in to a film. The book centres on a first person narrator with no name. He suffers from insomnia and goes to support classes where he meets Marla as they try to get through life. Fed up with his job he meets a character called Tyler Durden who represents the high life with his ...  Read the complete review

I had a friend who kept going on about Chuck Palahniuk. He was the best writer there ever was, a god, a true genius. Without his constant "Read this! Read this!", I might never have given it a second thought, and then also I might never have read "American Psycho", another novel he kept going on about and ...  Read the complete review

Rule 1:“Don’t Talk About Fight Club” Rule 2:”Don’t Talk About Fight Club” Fight Club written by Chuck Palahniuk is a book, which incorporates the structure of society and the differing beliefs that we as a people have. Relating to the blockbuster movie starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton, Fight ...  Read the complete review

Some people are pissed off - there is nothing to fight for anymore. The social fabric of our world is splintering and the taboo is now not taboo. My generation has little direct contact with the horrors of war. There is little struggle in the Western Democracies for food. People have disposable income for films; for furniture from Ikea and ...  Read the complete review

//* THE FIRST RULE OF FIGHT CLUB IS YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT FIGHT CLUB So first of all let's clear something up. Chuck Palahniuk's name is up for debate. I puzzled for some time over how to pronounce his name. According to the official site it is pronounced pa-laa-nik. So there you go. //* THE SECOND RULE OF FIGHT CLUB ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

Where before have you seen a hero with a vocal need to question authority, and who, through his imaginary ego expresses his inner feelings towards a girl he feels compelled to outwardly scorn? Is a philosophical foil and critic of materialism? Has a lean, toned, incredibly vicious sparring partner? A flamboyant guy who makes up his own damned ...  Read the complete review

From the intriguing opening, where the narrator describes a gun being pushed into his mouth while he stands atop a building rigged with explosives, Fight Club draws the reader in and then keeps them reading. Starting a novel near the end of the story isn’t an original idea, in fact it’s probably been done to death, but it is testament ...  Read the complete review

I saw the film, and loved it... I saw the book in a shop one day, and thought I'd give it a go. I read the book and loved it. The film was very true to the book... almost word for word, with very little alterations. The first notable one is the way Norton and Pitt meet.. In the book it is on a beach, in the film it is an ...  Read the complete review

Don't be put off by the cover quote from the unreadable Brett Easton Ellis - this book is intelligent, witty, and intricately constructed. Sure, there's gore, but this blood means something, it's not the vacuous viscera that Ellis made a mint from. Palahniuk's book deals with two opposing conceits. One: the conformity of ...  Read the complete review

When I saw the film of The Beach, starring Leonardo di Caprio, I hated it. Partly because Leo is a pretty boy that can't act but predominantly because I'd read the book first and didn't agree with the plot changes they'd made ( see seperate review ). With Fight Club I tried approaching things vice versa, saw the film first and ...  Read the complete review