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Fight Club

By: Chuck Palahniuk
Narrated by: Jim Colby
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 Every weekend, in basements and car parks across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything.

Fight Club is the invention of Tyler Durden, projectionist, waiter, and dark, anarchic genius. And it's only the beginning of his plans for revenge on the world...

©1996 Chuck Palahniuk (P)2008 Recorded Books LLC Action & Adventure Dark Humour Dystopian Fiction Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-Ins Psychological Satire Science Fiction Comedy Witty Adventure
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The first rule about "Fight Club" is not to judge a book by its cover, title or the film trailer. I hadn't really bothered with it because a book about clubs set up for blokes to simply fight sounded a little on the basic side for me . . . but when Audible had it as their daily deal I thought "Why not?", I needed something that would not engage my brain too much.

CLANG! Utterly wrong Simon. The troubled lead in this one and the scattered exploration of his hugely troubled mind is a genuine literary journey. There is far more depth to this than meets the eye. I was really impressed by how the opening scene and the ending bring things together with the same scenario and almost the same words yet meaning something so different.

I still don't think this will appeal to everyone but one thing is is not is a simple book about blokes knocking each other about for kicks!

A Lesson Learned

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I loved the film so much that I wanted to have a go at the original text, but was worried that it couldn't live up to expectations. I had nothing to worry about. A fantastically well constructed piece, no worse for knowing what's coming next. A good reading, too.

Enjoy.

I know this because Tyler knows this

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A really good book makes you think as well as entertains and this does both...err so that must mean that this is a really good book.

I am breaking the 1st rule

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Fight club is my favourite film and I thought I'd see how good the book is, well its just as good as the film in its own slightly different way. Loved it.

My favourite film and now my favourite book.

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Best Palahniuk book... Narrator is excellent, deliberate Deadpan, just like the film ;-)

Also try, Survivor.. that very good as well....

Best Palahniuk book...

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