Fight Club: A Novel

by Chuck Palahniuk

THE FIRST RULE about fight club is you don't talk about fight club.

Every weekend, in the basements and parking lots of bars across the country, young men with whitecollar jobs and failed lives take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded just as long as they have to. 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 violent revenge on an empty consumer-culture world.

• ISBN10: 0393039765
• ISBN13: 9780393039764
• Publish Date: 19 August 1996
• Publish Status: Active
• Out of Print: 15 June 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: WW Norton & Co
• Format: Hardcover (Deckle Edge)
• Pages: 208
• Language: English

Reviews

[adamfortuna]

Fight Club is my favorite movie. The book was all over the place — like the movie. Somehow the format fit the screen better for me.

[Michael @ Knowledge Lost]

I really think if I read this book before seeing the movie, I might have enjoyed it. I really enjoy the movie and the book is really good too, but I knew the twist and that kind of defeated the purpose of reading it.