Reviews

Fight Club 2 by Chuck Palahniuk

pedanthicc's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

syntax_terror's review against another edition

2.0

The story was all over the place and seemed like he was making it up as he went each month. There were signs of a brilliant story layered underneath all of Palaniuk's hubris. It hasn't lessened my love of the original book or movie but I won't be going back for a dip in Fight Club 3 that's for certain.

montigneyrules's review

5.0

#readingchallenge2022 (my indie book)

I am jack's smirking comeback. confusing where it needs to be. trash where it wants to be.
Fight Club was a 90s cult- Fight Club 2 is a perfect representation of exactly how Tyler Durden would mindfuck modern chaos.

alienn's review

adventurous challenging dark funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

draculaura21's review against another edition

dark

3.25

ashliha's review

4.0

?!

rpych2's review

1.0

I wish this book didn't exist. The open ending of Fight Club was amazing, and adding on to it to create an entirely new storyline seems fine in theory, but was awful in practice. It got so meta at the end (and not in a good way) that it completely lost the spirit of the first one that made it a classic.

germangfeler's review

3.0

Fight Club 2 #0: Fight Club volvió. En forma de comic. Este es un adelanto que fue publicado gratuitamente en su momento. Sirve mas que nada para recordar donde quedó la historia en el libro pero es demasiado corto y no desarrolla casi nada.

Fight Club 2 #1: La vida matrimonial entre Sebastian y Marla no está pasando por su mejor momento. Mientras tanto vuelve un viejo conocido de ambos: Tyler Durden. Interesante el recurso de las pastillas y los pétalos que aparecen sobre las hojas simulando rompera la cuarta pared.

Fight Club 2 #2: Marla le cuenta a Sebastian lo que (le) hizo, mientras buscan a su hijo que fue secuestrado durante el incendio. Nos enteramos un poco más sobre la historia de Sebastian y Tyler. Algunos clásicos Palahniuks en este número ("I know this because Sebastian know this").

Fight Club 2 #3: Tyler se comienza a mostrar más. Conocemos a los miembros de Project Mayhem y volvemos a la casa donde transcrurre el libro original. Las piezas están cayendo en su lugar.

Fight Club 2 #4: El mejor hasta ahora, esto empieza a tomar color. El club de la pelea nuevamente en acción, Marla buscando a su hijo por todo el mundo y una escena genial donde rompen la cuarta pared.

Fight Club 2 #5: Sebastian descubre que Tyler está haciendo cosas a sus espaldas. Mientras Tyler se quiere deshacer de su otro yo.

Fight Club 2 #6: Sebastian se hace pasar por Tyler para conseguir lo que necesita. Además conocemos a su psicólogo.

Fight Club 2 #7: En este número tenemos mas metaficción y discusiones entre Sebastian y Tyler. Marla tiene la primera pista concreta sobre su hijo.

Fight Club 2 #8: Mientras Marla va en rescate de su hijo, concemos un poco de la familia de Sebastian a través de las visiones. A Chuck le gusta tanto la metaficción como a mí, asi que acá aparece de nuevo como personaje.

Fight Club 2 #9: Vamos llegando al final. Sebastian y Marla encuentran su hijo y descubren el plan del culto de Tyler.

Fight Club 2 #10: Chuck ya destrozaste la cuarta pared, no hay nada. No sé donde empieza la ficción y donde la realidad.

its_naman's review

10 pages in and no I'm not reading this. not gonna let it ruin everything I liked about the first book. 

The name Sebastian suits him though

sevaspeto's review

2.0

I'm going to preface this by saying that Palahniuk is genuinely one of my favorite authors -- I absolutely love nearly everything I've read by him. And that said, despite how objectively awesome the film adaptation of Fight Club was, I'd have argued that the novel was ones of his weakest works, compared to Invisible Monsters, Survivor, or Choke, for instance. I was intrigued to see how this particular storyline would lend itself to the graphic novel format and... honestly, it felt like a mescaline trip. It's so disjointed and chaotic and veers too frequently into meta territory. For anyone that's read Fight Club or even just seen the movie, that shouldn't be terribly surprising, but I'm telling you... the narrative thread here is hanging together by atoms. Even a good chunk of the dialogue is partially cribbed from the original novel, and the parts that aren't feel like pretentious, B-level, snarky commentary that didn't make it into the final cut from the original book.

Despite all it's shortcomings, I will say that the artwork is EXCELLENT. I really did dig the aesthetic that Stewart employed throughout, but admittedly without that to keep me engaged, this was truthfully kind of a slog to get through ¯\_(ツ)_/¯