Club de lluita

by Chuck Palahniuk

221 pages

Catalan language

Published 2014 by Labutxaca.

ISBN:: 978-84-9930-860-9
OCLC Number:: 892543109

(59 reviews)

A man who struggles with insomnia meets a colorful extremist, and they create a secret organization together.

Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist in this, his first book. 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 after-hours boxing matches in the basement of bars. There, two men fight "as long as they have to." This is a gloriously original work that exposes the darkness at the core of our modern world.

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foxrain reviewed Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

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4 stars

I have conflicting feelings about this book. I'm actually still not sure whether I liked this book or not, but since I had trouble stopping to read it at night, I guess I did.

On the one hand, the story is very good and the characters are completely insane in an interesting way. On the other hand, I've never liked Palahniuk's writing style, and I didn't like it here either. I just learned to tolerate it as the story got more interesting. The atmosphere in the book is skillfully constructed, but it's very dreary and suffocating. It's not a pleasant reading experience. I'm not sure I'm a fan of the ending either.

Still, as a whole, I guess I enjoyed this book in a morbid way. Like some people would enjoy getting the shit beaten out of them regularly.

Guerric Haché reviewed Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

Review of 'Fight Club' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

An interesting read for sure. The narrative techniques used were interesting, and the commentary on North American culture are definitely pertinent, if a little on-the-nose.

That said, I had a hard time getting into the protagonist's head. I suppose he's arguably someone with a severe mental illness, which makes relating hard, but I felt like a lot of the pain and suffering he was feeling was caricatured, a kind of inflated impression of the downsides to the culture we live in overall rather than something a real person could feel.

I suppose that's the point, isn't it? He's an exemplary product of the dissonance and internal conflict of Western culture, and he awakens an understanding of that dissonance in others, to violent effect. But I left the book feeling exhausted and irritated by the protagonist more than anything. I suppose my core takeaway here is that we need to be …

Cheri reviewed Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

Review of 'Fight Club' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

I liked this book a lot. Quite a lot. I think I'd like to read it again after I think about it some more.

Jason reviewed Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

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5 stars

I've seen the movie so I always been interested in the book. It's an interesting way to tell a story and to make a point. I don't disagree with how the author gives you the base information of what is happening without all the scene descriptions. Really loved reading this.

Molly Foust reviewed Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

Review of 'Fight Club' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

One of the better books written in the 1990's, brilliant, loved it! It could well end up as a classic...

Chris reviewed Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

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3 stars

Writing this in Starbuck's after a near miss with a taxi. I have just finished reading Fight Club and will rent the video to watch on Friday evening. The 'Starbucks' connection is that one gets demolished at the end of 'Fight Club' the film, though not the book which has a slightly darker ending. People die. Nothing ends happily ever after, well not as happily as in the film where Tyler and Marla, hand in hand, watch the high-rises collapse. All very Ayn Rand, it occurs to me suddenly, though it hadn’t up until now.
Getting the message "men bad" from this book seems as wrong as thinking it's "let's blow shit up." Yes, there are issues, many of which revolve around overblown competitiveness under capitalism, social isolation, and violence - so why would you try to solve those issues by essentially turning them into a straw-man of themselves? I'm all for demolishing Star$ucks but more for using independent cafes and local chains instead. And I only want to boycott McDos because arson is illegal. You do not beat the beast by becoming what it eats. I think that's the message, and there is no point, either, berating people for not understanding that - if the whole damned message is 'help people rather than attacking them.'