Reviews tagging 'Schizophrenia/Psychosis '

Dövüş Kulübü by Elif Özsayar, Chuck Palahniuk

39 reviews

hjb_128's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Car accident, Body horror, Torture, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, Blood, Gore, Mental illness, and Gun violence

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Abortion, and Cancer

tgyll's review against another edition

dark funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Let me first start off by saying this: Chuck, my dear sir, you don’t need to worry about any of us talking about fight club because half the time we’re sat there saying “what the actual fuck just happened”. Another thing I want to talk about is how this book falls into a very niche category, among which American psycho and A Clockwork Orange also come to mind, which I think should colloquially be known as “Satirical criticism of society written by men frequently misunderstood by men”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Self harm, Violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail, and Drug use

adahermans's review against another edition

dark funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

First rule of Fight Club is you don’t talk about Fight Club! So I won’t 🤫… (loved it though, made me chuckle a lot)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

12_gon's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

'gotta admit! love to fight club, but we only fight club outside... '

Palahniuk tunes Intersectional Feminism to young men lost in the dissonant notes of white male rage and mommy issues. As the reader wanders through the protaganist's self-harm adventure stealing the pain of others and discovering the highs of sleep-deprived mania, we meet Marla and Tyler.

See, Tyler is how the quiet, polite boy ignored by his mom, turns into the schizophrenic mass shooter. Tyler tells the protaganist about Caste Necropolitics patriarchy CAPITALISM$$$ "You see reader, us guy bros who like know about Ruby Ridge, can see past the bedtimes and sobriety the (m)asses are so fond of hehe.. like communism could just work if us genetically superior MEN(!!!) just destroyed everything! Then us group of guys undergoing psychosis cause we haven't slept in a bit, can solve the Jewish CAPITALISM$$$ question... OwO x3"

Like terrorism, but way cooler cause our Turner Diaries is the Communist Manifesto BAYBEE!

The book's appeal to me has evolved over the year's. I enjoy Palahniuk's embrace of psychosis and the "sad clown" ending of Tyler winning terrorism. A lot of people pretend they read the book, when they just watched the movie and probably didn't think about it much. In the book, when you don't sleep, self-harm (beat yourself up hehe [cause Fight Club]); you become abusive to the point of homicide. You know, the bad guy. Palahniuk is pretty literal, and meth psychosis is well-known in the seedier parts of the LGBTQ community. Ask around. The prose is very accurate, but not precise. Which I find the fear of failure mirrors poetically in Realistic Horror. The absurdity mirrors survivor's guilt. It'll grow with you.

Sucks for Bob though. RIP... hmmm... you ever think the guy with tits, no balls, and who spent the first two weeks in-utero as a female fetus like every human does might be a woman? Well I'm not going read his chromosomes or diary, so yeah.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Self harm, Addiction, Gore, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Murder, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, and Violence

chapter_one_athenaeum's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Cursing, Chronic illness, Blood, Gun violence, Grief, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Terminal illness, Violence, Drug use, Body shaming, Cancer, Toxic relationship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fatphobia, Domestic abuse, Abandonment, Death, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Mental illness, Abortion, Suicide, and Sexual content

alexandryareads's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Suicide attempt

stephsbookedout's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Self harm, Suicide, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Gun violence, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Hate crime

foramen_magnum's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Palahniuk is one of my favorite authors, so returning to his works is like catching up with an old friend... Even if they weren't your favorite, they make you feel nostalgic. 

Fight Club is clearly early in his career and the elements of his style are being experimented upon. While sometimes it hits his razor sharp mania, other times it feels very stream of consciousness as told by characters who just aren't always that interesting. Shock value is a trademark of his style but here it feels gratuitous, where in other books it feels immersive. Still, he makes his point, and his critique of capitalism and hyper masculinity is absolutely clear. If this is your first tango with Chuck, I'd recommend you start with Rant before checking out Fight Club, but don't count this one out entirely. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, Body horror, Fatphobia, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Cursing, Drug use, Medical content, Toxic friendship, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Abortion

nb_leftist's review against another edition

challenging dark funny reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

It seems to be a commentary on white supremacist right wing extremist movements and how they’re fucking idiotic, but I can’t tell if that’s what the author meant it as or not. I don’t think it really matters cause there’s not one specific thing that a story can mean and in the afterword Palahniuk even writes about how he kind of just wrote it. Either way it’s definitely a good piece of writing. It keeps you interested and it keeps moving throughout. I finished it in probably 2-3 hours and it felt like 30 minutes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Body horror, Body shaming, Classism, Death, Gun violence, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Hate crime, Fire/Fire injury, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Vomit, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Blood, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Excrement, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Gore, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Medical content, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Suicide, and Mental illness

stephanierose11's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Cursing