Fight Club - Chuck Palahnuik

[Napalm Dust]

FIGHT CLUB by Chuck Palahnuik

This book gave me a new outlook on life and society and people. It's my favoutrite book and the films amazing.

The book is full of great quotes;

"May I never be complete.
May I never be content.
May I never be perfect
Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete."


"Worker bees can leave
Even drones can fly away
The Queen is their slave."


"Without just one nest
A bird can call the world home
Life is your career"

"We're going to break up civilisation so we can make something better out of the world."

Anyone else read this book?

[Revolution Hero]

Have seen the moovie. Is it based on the book?

[PunkRawker677]

I have read the book before but i havent glanced at it in years and i went to my school library (supposedly the most comprehensive in south fla) and they "do not allow" such titles in their library.. furthur browsing brought me to see that they had a collection of "britney spears biographies" and other stupid books yet they ban a book of such intellectual quality???

[ComradeJunichi]

Hey, I was wondering does anyone know the 'undercurrent' of the story? Like is there a deeper meaning? It would be great if someone can tell me. Thanks.
Oh I heard the author is coming out with a new book.

[sypher]

I saw the movie and then I read the book. The movie is wonderfull. the story is great and the director did a great job with the movie.

I can't see a deeper meaning in the movie other than a man fighting the chains of materialism and attempting to free the rest of the world from being a walking billboard putting together ther wooden "Ikea" furniture while siping starbucks. I'd like to hear a different meaning too though.


"only after we lose everything are we free to do anything"

[mentalbunny]

I've only seen the film once and never read the book but it's so cool! I need to watch it again to get it straight in my head. I don't really think I've ofund any deep meanings so I'd be interested to hear what people think. The twist near the end is so clever.

[guerrillaradio]

http://www.che-lives.com/cgi/community/top...um=17&topic=901 (http://www.che-lives.com/cgi/community/topic.pl?forum=17&topic=901)

[bluerev002]

ive seen the movie but im going to read the book after im done with the one after im gonna read after this one
( what !?!). im reading che guevara a revolutionary life, and after that im gonna read grapes of wrath SO ILL READ FIGHT CLUB NEXT !!!
I really think that movie got the point out and it was great.

[Titus]

Fight Club is one of the best films I've seen; and the book is just a masterpiece. It's just so well written - full of little snippets of knowledge about things you never really thought about before.

It's a book that, when you put down, you really feel as though you've been putting your time to the best possible use. It changes the way you see everything.

[mujer revolucionaria]

I have a lil anecdote about Fight Club and Chuck P......

One of my good friends had brain surgery about 18 months ago to remove a tumor. He was so saddened that he was missing a book signing with Chuck P, because he was in the hospital recovering.

After the operation he actually kept the tumor in a jar, and named it Marla, as the book refers to her as his tumor.

My friends sister went to the booksigning with his copy of Fight Club, and Chuck P signed it, "get well soon Brandon, and tell Marla I said hello"

I love it

[Lefty]

yeah, both the movie and the book are great. Has anyone here read survivor? Its also by Chuck Pahluniak and its about a survivor of a suicide cult. I havent, but i have heard it is good.

[perception]

My interpretation...

it was about fascism.

peep the themes, the male chauvinistic undercurrent, the mindless collectivism, etc.

[RedLibertad]

Actually Palahniuk is apolitical. So it wasn't necessarily fascist. In fact, I've heard many call his work situationist. But he's only read marx for a philosophical standpoint. Palahniuk is an existentialist, being why all the people are treated like they are hollow serial numbers. And the way he describes things that society's standards consider immoral and horrible, you can feel him conveying everything with the utmost stoicism.

I've read all his books, invisible monsters I've read twise, and I even read some of articles and essays.

There are also options out on Survivor and Invisible Monsters to become movies. Choke was also optioned, but it was dropped. In my opinion, Choke wasn't as good as his other books.

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However, the movie is quite different from the book. The book makes it easier to put together more plausibly that Tyler is Jack's imaginary friend. In the movie Jack's apartment explodes shortly after meeting tyler on the plane, perpetuating their meeting. In the book, tyler and jack just end up meeting time and time again. Sometimes with reason, sometimes without.

There's also some other neato things that I think they should have included in the movie. Such as Jack killing his boss and a different ending.

[soilride]

Fight Club was a good film and was a combination of many philosophical ideas [existentialist, nihilist, Nietzschean, Situationist etc etc] If anyone wants more philosophical content I suggest you read the book by Chuck Palahniuk[sic]. He has also writtened "Survivor", 'Choke", and "invisible Monsters" which are also good books dealing with nihilist tendencies and outlook of a world filled with consumer culture and without hope. the book reminds me more of a anarchist-situationist with some "futurist" philosophical bytes. If anyone has read Max Stirner "The Ego and His Own" will know what I am talking about.

Take care comrades!

[deadpool 52]

One of the greatest books I have ever read.

"Everyone you love will either reject you or die."

"Until you realise that you will die you're useless to me."

Half the book is quotes I can use, the other half is chockfull of usefull information.

And a very misunderstood one, too.

[LeninCCCP]

Great Book even better movie.