Reddit reviews Fight Club: A Novel
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Fight Club
Reddit reviews Fight Club: A NovelWe found 23 Reddit comments about Fight Club: A Novel. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
> Should I leave my current city out of respect for the people I've hurt? Is it okay if I try to stick around and improve myself
Only consider leaving if it's what you really want or for better opportunities. But don't leave to run away from your problems. Make sure you're doing this for the right reasons. Moving to a new place can be a great, cathartic experience.
I've been down this road of self loathing and self hate before. You've recognized your damaging, self destructive behavior. That's the first step. Forget your ex, but don't forget the lesson. Burn her number, email, etc. Burn all pictures. Delete any link to her on your phone. Delete your facebook, and all social media. Unplug. Re-connect with the real world. Exercise. Hit the gym, focus on 5x5's, now is time for you to heal.....you need to work on you. Your mind and your body. Forget all that shit in the past. Read more books. Read this, then this and then this. These books are warnings and advice all young men should get in their teens but don't. We all make these damn same mistakes, sometimes over and over again, we don't learn for some reason. You need to face your past, own it, learn from it - and move on. Why must all men be trapped like Jay Gatsby? Fight it. Good luck brother.
Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart. - Tyler Durden, Fight Club
Fight Club. Human fat based soap. His name was Robert Paulson. Need I say more?
The movie is also great.
Ironically, Fight Club is a book.
> Have some sort of epiphany after reading
Holding books to that sort of a standard is harmful to your reading habit. Consider them like strangers you'd meet on a long train journey, some will tell you the most dazzling stories, others will silently sit in the corner while you shake your head and try to goad words out of them, and some others will leave you with life altering lessons, but most of all, they will all leave you with stories. So, prejudice against genres/types is quite unwarranted.
Why not start with Fight Club?
I'm not huge on posting to Reddit, but I might be able to help elaborate on Palahniuk's thoughts on Fight Club. For reference, I own this version of the book: http://www.amazon.com/Fight-Club-Novel-Chuck-Palahniuk/dp/0393327345/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1393912583&sr=8-2&keywords=Fight+Club .
Palahniuk states on page 213 (the afterword):
>It [the book Fight Club] was just an experiment to kill a slow afternoon at work. Instead of walking a character from scene to scene in a story, there had to be some way to just--cut, cut, cut. To jump. From scene to scene. Without losing the reader. To show every aspect of a story, but only the kernel of each aspect. The core moment. Then, another.
>There had to be some kind of chorus. Something bland that wouldn't hold the reader's attention, but would act to signal a jump to a new angle or aspect of the story. A bland kind of buffer that would be the touchstone or landmark a reader would need not to feel lost. A kind of neutral sorbet, like something served between courses in a fancy dinner. A signal, like buffer music in radio broadcasts, to announce the next topic. The next jump.
>A kind of glue or mortar that would hold together a mosaic of different moments and details. Giving them all the continuity and yet showcasing each moment by not ramming it up against the next moment.
>Think of the movie Citizen Kane, and how the faceless, nameless newsreel reporters create the framework for telling the story from a lot of different sources.
>That's what I wanted to do. That one, boring afternoon at work.
>So for that chorus--that "transitional device"--I wrote eight rules. The whole idea of fight club wasn't important [my emphasis]. It was arbitrary. But the eight rules had to apply to something so why not a club where you could ask someone to fight? The way you'd ask for a dance at a disco. Or challenge someone to a game of pool or darts. The fighting wasn't the important part of the story. What I needed were the rules. Those bland landmarks that would allow me to describe this club from the past, the present, up close or far away, the beginning and evolution, to cram together a lot of details and moments--all within seven pages--and NOT lose the reader.
Take from that as you will. However, I don't really think that Palahniuk's initial motivation for Fight Club was to create a satire. Instead, I believe that he wanted to create a unique story, with a unique style and feel to it.
Edit: Missed a "not" and replaced "lost" with "lose" at the end. Also, I'd recommend anyone who enjoys Fight Club to grab the book, and also read the entire afterword. It's very interesting!
Edit: Another mistake correction: "withing" to "within".
Edit: Hopefully by using the quote formatting, I've made quote easier to read. Just to clarify, all of the italicized text is Palahniuk's emphasis not mine.
It's from Fight Club
For anyone who would like to know, the following books I've read are my favorite and I'd really recommend them to anyone: The Martian by Andy Weir, Gerald's Game by Stephen King, The Panther by Nelson DeMille, Unflinching by Jodi Mitic, American Sniper by Chris Kyle, and Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
EDIT: Oh, and Blackwater - The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill.
EDDIT 2: Oh, and Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card which is so much better than the movie. The movie does not do this novel justice. And Killing Lincoln by Bill O'Reilly.
Hello!
So, firstly, I should admit that I'm haven't been published that much - I only have one book out. However, as a college freshman, I believe I'm in a unique position to give you advice. I'd just say to do what feels right, you know? I don't deliberate over my decisions, I merely perform actions after utilizing my brain for a nanosecond, and look where I am! Hell, the only thing I've put a singular iota of effort into is my verbose style of communication, and I don't even have to make an effort anymore!
Actually, you may not have realized this, but your first two questions are inextricably bound! Cannabis is a wonderful tool for the young writer. It can inspire awe, promote brilliance, and just take the edge off when it necessitates removal. I must confess, I only smoke marijuana in cigarette form approximately thrice (hint - thrice:twice::three:two) a week, although I must say my usage spikes whenever I desire to fully utilize my vast writing prowess (I just partook in a joint three sixtieth-hours ago, if you are incapable of ascertaining that information from my gargantuan vocabulary).
Thanks for the questions!
Edit: Although I'd like for future questioners to try harder to stick to the script. As a cinephile, I know a lot about scripts! ;)
That is NOT my experience in shopping for ebooks.
Chosen at random from my recommendations on amazon.com:
Breathless, same price as paperback
Full Dark, No Stars, Same price as paperback
Daniel X, -$1 from hardcover
The Art of Fielding: A Novel, +$1.88 over paperback
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever. = to hardcover
The Heroes of Olympus, Book Two: The Son of Neptune, -$1.41 over hardcover
Hell House, -$0.18 over paperback
Fight Club, -$2.57 over paperback
Prices are only slightly lower, if at all over physical books. Obviously this is a small sample, but whenever I go looking it is typically what I find.
Your overhead arguments are mostly false as well:
edit: formatting
There's a whole book full of this stuff. You should give it a read ;)
Glamorama, by Bret Easton Ellis. It's a complete mind-fuck. It starts out as a portrait of the shallowness of celebrity culture, and then the protagonist gets involved with a Zoolander-esque group of model-terrorists, and then the book gets really, really weird. (The Zoolander reference probably isn't fair, since Ellis did it first.) Bombings, body doubles, black vans. You start questioning whether the protagonist is just going crazy.
You also might enjoy some Chuck Palahniuk. Fight Club (of course) or Rant.
It's the weekend! AND I MISSED YOU. I AM SO HAPPY YOU ARE BACK. This book would be nice! I have really gotten into this Author and would love to read more BY him!
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I haven't read any of the five that made the list, but I absolutely recommend Fight Club and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. They're both very good for anyone - man or woman - to read.
Unfortunately not, my copy of Fight Club is a paperback edition published in the early 2000s, but it's not a movie tie-in edition. Thanks for your interest.
http://www.amazon.com/Fight-Club-Novel-Chuck-Palahniuk/dp/0393327345
May I suggest Fight Club?
"Darkly Dreaming Dexter" was an awesome read. Loved the tv show so I read the book inspired by it, they're pretty different though especially after the first book. Also, Fight Club was really good as well.
>They're referencing scenes from Fight Club
FTFY
A reading list...
The Myth of Sisyphus
Fight Club
The 7 habits of Highly Effective People
The games people play
Does #36 ► Fight Club (1999) have the same story as Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club book?
Medal of Honor, Crysis 2, Dead Space
Even though there are phenomenal chances you've seen the corresponding movie, my choice is "Fight Club" by Chuck Palahniuk. The book gives a greater view of what exactly is going through the narrator's head in his exchanges with Marla, Tyler, and others. You can learn so much more about Project Mayhem than you would in the movie. It is truly a great read if you can get past how confusing the nature of the narrator's mind is.
http://www.amazon.com/Fight-Club-Novel-Chuck-Palahniuk/dp/0393327345