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1st rule about Fight Club is read the novel first! Well thats my rule, i watched the movie, when it came out years ago (most the population) and only now discovered the real Fight club.
The narrator is a traveling automobile company employee who suffers from insomnia. On advice from his doctor attends support groups and pretends to be a victim. He gains some emotional release here and feels part of a people and becomes addicted to attending these support groups as an imposter. He's not the only one who's a trickster and important character pops up at the meetings Marla and they both find they have an emptiness to fill and befriend each other.

On a flight he befriended a key character of the story, Durden a soap salesman, they arrange to meet at a bar and the rest is history as they say. They set up a fight club the rules are.
1.You don't talk about fight club.

2.You don't talk about fight club.

3.When someone says stop, or goes limp, the fight is over.

4.Only two guys to a fight.

5.One fight at a time.

6.They fight without shirts or shoes.

7.The fights go on as long as they have to.

8.If this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.



They are "a generation of men raised by women," being without a male example in their lives to help shape their masculinity. The fight club is not really about physical combat, money, skill or winning but instead a way for participants to experience feeling in a society where they are otherwise numb. The fighting forms a resistance to the impulse to be "cocooned" in society. The fighting between the men stripped away the "fear of pain" and "the reliance on material signifiers of their self-worth", leaving them to experience something valuable.



As the fight club's membership grows Tyler begins to use it to spread his anti-consumerist ideas and recruits fight club's members to participate in increasingly elaborate pranks on corporate America. This was originally the narrator's idea, but Tyler takes control from him. Tyler eventually gathers the most devoted fight club members (referred to as "space monkeys") and forms "Project Mayhem," a cult-like organization that trains itself as an army to bring down modern civilization. This Organization, like fight club, is controlled by a set of rules:



1.You don't ask questions.

2.You don't ask questions.

3.No excuses.

4.No lies.

5.You have to trust Tyler.



The narrator becomes unhappy with Tyler's extremities and a battle for power and control ignites literally. The narrator and Tyler can no longer accommodate the same space one has to give in on power and control!

I can not comment anymore on the story as i don't want to spoil the story any further.

This was a thought provoking read and written in a wacky style.

Think of the Psycho movie and that Jack Nicholson character from One Flew over the cuckoos nest playing Mr Bates and you might have something close to the protagonist in this story.

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"But I'm Tyler Durden. I invented fight club. Fight club is mine. I wrote those rules. None of you would be here if it wasn't for me. And I say it stops here!"



"I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerve. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent, and men look up to him and expect him to change their world. Tyler is capable and free, and I am not. I'm not Tyler Durden."



"This was the goal of Project Mayhem, Tyler said, the complete and right-away destruction of civilization. What comes next in Project Mayhem, nobody except Tyler knows. The second rule is you don't ask questions."



"It's Project Mayhem that's going to save the world. A cultural ice age. A prematurely induced dark age. Project Mayhem will force humanity to go dormant or into remission long enough for the Earth to recover."

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★★★★★★★★★★★(Did I use more than the allowed ten stars?)

n  n    I am Adita's Hysterical Guts.n  n

I watched the movie. Then, I read the book.
The movie was like, "PQOWIEURYTMZNXLAKSJDHFGBCV".
The book was like,
"LASDFGKJHMNZXBCVQWPOIEURYT".
Either way, I couldn't quite get the hang of "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ".

Since I read the book in quick succession to watching the movie, try picturing all of these happening to me twice over, like this:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

n  Welcome to FIGHT CLUB CLUB.n

1⃣ The first rule about FIGHT CLUB club is you don't talk about FIGHT CLUB club.

2⃣ The second rule about FIGHT CLUB club is you don't talk about FIGHT CLUB club.

3⃣ The third rule is, when your brain says stop, or goes limp, even if you're just faking it, IT'S NOT OVER.

4⃣ Only two eyes to a page.

5⃣ One page at a time.

6⃣ You read without food or sleep(so you can put yourself in our cute protagonist's shoes).

7⃣ The reading goes on as long as it has to(past the last page into meaningless musings). Those are some of the other rules.

8⃣ Lastly, and most importantly, n  n    YOU DON'T TALK ABOUT "FIGHT CLUB" ITSELF.n  n

On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone will drop to Zero. So, n  prepare to evacuate soul,n while I go wikisearch the ABC of the Fight Butt-wipe-for-Brains Club.

I read this book as a self-absorbed 18-year old and never looked back. Brilliant modern critique of western consumerism and masculinity, told through the story of an underground club of men who beat the hell out of each other as a way of working through their disillusionments.

Each sentence of each chapter is quotable, things like :
'You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.'
and
'We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.'

(As a trivial aside, you can hear a selection of them in the Dust Brother's song 'This is Your Life' featuring Brad Pitt, who incidentally does a pretty good job as the aforementioned anti-hero in the movie.)

What is most poignant however, is the lingering effects of the narrator's troubled relationship with his father throughout his adult life. The quote I remembered most explicity, even years after reading Fight Club is this one:

"What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God. If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out and dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God?"

I'm waiting for another book to come along that will speak as loudly to me about modern day malaise.

Having avoided reading this, since I rate the film as one of my favourites, I was reassured by a few reviews, and found myself a copy. This edition has an afterword by the author where he explains a bit about the origins of the story (a short story published in an anthology of short stories called The Pursuit of Happiness), and a bit of a rant about how popular it is to knock off the title or the first rule for other applications.

Despite a few obvious plot changes, the film is pretty true to the novel, streamlining a few aspects which would have proven (more) confusing on film. There is a rawness, obviously a violence, but more than anything a sense of uncertainty about where things are going that certainly make the film unique at that time, and perhaps the book as well. It didn't even bother me that I knew what was going to happen all along.

I loved the hidden-in-plain-sight clues throughout the narrative - P12 -

n  "I know this because Tyler knows this."n

I love the way the book throws out a morsel of storyline out of context, moves on, and comes back to it at a later stage - the opening line P11 -

n  "Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler is pushing a gun into my mouth..."n

I love the side comments which build confusion and context, the depth of information - P42 -

n  "It's airline policy not to imply ownership in the event of a dildo. Use the indefinite article.
A dildo.
Never your dildo.
Never, ever say the dildo accidentally turned itself on.
A dildo activated itself and created an emergency situation that required evacuating your baggage."n

I love the 'recipes' for napalm, for plastic explosive, for soap...

I love the dark humour, the unapologetic macho-ness of 'men taking back masculinity', the anti-consumerism, the lowest rungs of society taking control. I love the way I conjure the voice of Ed Norton or Brad Pitt as I read the novel.

5 stars

Wow. That was different. REALLY different. I thought this would be a quick read. Just over 200 pages... was I wrong. I was really out of my comfort zone, and it took me about 30 pages to get into Chuck's writing style, and the narration. BUT, I thought it was clever and surprisingly funny at parts.

Initial thoughts:
1) If Chuck did his research, I know how to make home made bombs and soap.
2) Very clever. Very insightful.
3) Dark. Crude. Funny.
4) Narration style is very different from what I'm used to. Not an easy, quick read at all (not that's a bad thing).
5) Full of satire regarding identity, social status, and society. Deep.

Check out my full book review!

Things you Own End up Owing You




تذكر هذا ..الناس الذين تحاول أن تطئهم هم الناس التى تعمتد عليها…نحن القوم الذين يغسلون غسيلك ويطهون طعامك ويقدمون لك العشاء…نحن نعد فراشك ونحرسك اثناء نومك…نقود سيارة الاسعاف…نوجه المكالمات الهاتفية…نحن الطهاة وسائقوا التاكسي ونعرف كل شئ عنك…نحن أطفال التاريخ الأوسطون الذين ربانا جهاز التلفزيون وقال لنا اننا يوماً سنصير مليونيرات ونجوم سينما ونجوم موسيقى الروك, لكن هذا لن يحدث ونحن الان نستوعب هذه الحقيقة…..فلا تعبث منا

لديك طابور من الشباب والشابات ..وكلهم يريدون التضحية بحياتهم لهدف ما..الاعلانات جعلت هؤلاء القوم يطاردون السيارات والثياب التى لا يحتاجون اليها…هناك أجيال ظلت تعمل فى وظائف تكرهها فقط لتستطيع شراء أشياء لا تحتاج إليها..

لالاف السنين أفسد البشر كل شئ علي هذا الكوكب والان يتوقع منى التاريخ أن أنظف ما تركه الجميع من فوضي, يجب أن أغسل وأجفف علب الحساء..على أن أدفع فاتورة التلوث النووي وخزانات الجازولين والنفايات التى تم القاؤها قبل ان أولد بجيل كامل

انا ركام..أنا قاذروات وركام مجنون بالنسبة لك وكل هذا العالم اللعين .. أنت لا تبالي بأين أحيا أو كيف أشعر أو ماذا آكل أو كيف أطعم أطفالي..أو كيف أدفع للطبيب إذا مرضت..وأنا مجنون وملول وضعيف..لكني مازلت مسئوليتكم



الفيلم ده من احسن الافلام الى شفتها فى حياتي
وباعتبره احسن من الرواية من وجهة نظري فدايفيد فنشر مع برادبيت وادوارد نورتن خلوا الفيلم عبقري, الرواية اسلوبها صعب شوية الى مشافش الفيلم من الممكن صعب يربط الاحداث ببعض ويحس بالملل من الرواية, لكن فى النهاية رواية مختلفة وثورية ورائعة .

I don’t really care that I’m an outlier here – I hated this book!

An unnamed man who can’t sleep goes to a string of support groups for the seriously ill to see what people who really suffer look like. There, he meets a woman as twisted as he is, and they form a love/hate relationship. Meanwhile, when on a business trip for the job he hates, he meets an extremist rule breaker who is to turn his life around. That is to say, make it even worse! They form a fight club, which attracts people who also feel like they’re living meaningless lives whilst working dehumanising jobs. The fighting makes them feel alive. After a few scenes of gratuitous violence, things deteriorate further. The fighting turns into organised acts of vandalism and general mayhem. The ending is unbelievably bad.

I know there will be those who will want to point out the deep meaning hidden in the subtext. So what, I consume books to learn and to be entertained. This book didn’t tick either box.

I listened to this on audio and the only reason I got to the end of the book is that it’s relatively short and I didn’t have an alternative loaded on my phone (I hate walking without a book to keep me company). As I only award one star to books I fail to finish I’m reluctantly going to have to award this book two. That’s probably two more than it deserves.

Society only needs a little push to unleash all its contained fury. We are controlling our lives so much, sometimes you just have to set free. Excellent book, it definitely leaves you thinking. Perfect writing and amazing ending. A great critic to our conformist society.



n  Si me despertara en un lugar distinto, en un momento diferente ¿lograría despertarme siendo otra persona?n

Fight Club lo tiene todo. Una trama buena y profunda, con ritmo excelente, unos personajes interesantes y escritura ligera. En muchos sentidos es el libro perfecto. Y es que Palahniuk te absorbe por completo. Yo estaba leyendo otro libro y este seria para mis ratos libres en la casa y lo termine leyendo hasta en el metro #idontevengiveashit

¿Que tan conformistas podemos ser con nuestra vida y nuestro trabajo? ¿Qué tan escondida tenemos esa parte anarquista en nuestra mente? Es difícil decir cuál es el verdadero significado de la novela porque le da énfasis a prácticamente todo, pero a mi forma de ver es sobre la conformidad, la necesidad del hombre por liberarse y la negación a volver a su estado anterior.

n  A veces te despiertas y tienes que preguntarte donde estas.n

Y es que nuestro protagonista es el claro ejemplo del ciudadano común y por lo tanto te identificas con él en algún punto, y si te identificas con él, también con algunas de sus inconformidades y por lo tanto con alguna de sus extremistas y violentas formas de combatirlas. Todos tenemos un alma perversa dentro, aunque no siempre debe salir.

El final es muy bueno, yo no lo vi venir y logra darle significado a todos los detalles que menciona. A mucha gente no le gusta el epilogo pero yo ADORO los finales abiertos. Son uno de mis puntos débiles como lectora.

Altamente recomendable para todos. Tiene un humor algo agrio y algunas escenas intensas pero en general la lectura es perfecta. Yo no logro encontrar algo que no me gustara.

n  Te despiertas y no estás en ningún sitio.n

the first rule of reading fight club is: you do not talk about reading fight club.

which is a good thing because i honestly have no idea what i read.
man, this book is W I L D.

تو شغلت نیستی،تو مقدار پولی ک�� تو بانک داری نیستی، تو ماشین زیر پات نیستی، تو پولِ تو کیفِ جیبِت نیستی، تو لباس نظامیت نیستی، تو نُتی هستی تو این سمفونی عظیم دنیا⁦
با تجربه‌هایی که از ترجمه‌های آقای خاکسار داشتم ترجیح دادم فعلا فقط فیلم رو ببینم و دور و بر کتابش نرم!

The first rule about fight club is you don't review it.
Sorry Chuck.
But, I'm Joe's Smirking Revenge! ;)
This nihilist transgressive fiction is pitiless and told brilliantly with dark humour. But as I've seen the movie before (It's my most favourite movie!), I find it somewhat disappointing as the movie was much better as the best scenes from the movie were quite different in the book. But still it's awesome.
Fight Club is about 'self-abnegation' (you are not the things you own), this is found in Hindu philosophy.
“I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let’s evolve, let the chips fall where they may.” - perfection is the call of egoism and the reason behind it is that we are afraid of failure, risk, mediocrity even success! Perfection leads to development and evolution is quite different thing from it which is an essential parameter of creative living, Ignoring this all we get is foolish productivity.
"It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.”
"It's your life and is ending one minute at a time."
I think this leaves a milestone in the history of manliness.
And Yeah,
His name is Robert Paulson! Lol!

از اونجایی که اولین و دومین قانون باشگاه مشت زنی اینه که دربارش با کسی صحبت نکنی؛ پس چیزی نمیگم دربارش تا خودتون این اثر مریض رو بخونید.