Reviews tagging 'Death'

Fight club by Chuck Palahniuk

44 reviews

bbezuneh's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.75

absolutely loved this book but not quite as much as some of his other works

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Gun violence, Blood, and Violence

cianarae's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

So iconic

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Physical abuse, Mental illness, Body horror, Self harm, Violence, Suicide attempt, Murder, Gun violence, and Death

Moderate: Medical content, Grief, Cancer, and Gaslighting

Minor: Abortion

courtsbooks's review against another edition

mysterious reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Suicide, Violence, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death, Mental illness, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Fire/Fire injury, and Murder

carmenfullarton's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Death and Terminal illness

mulders's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

4.75

How Tyler saw it was that getting God's attention for being bad was better than getting no attention at all. Maybe because God's hate better than His indifference.

If you could be either God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose? We are God's middle children, according to Tyler Durden, with no special place in history and no special attention. Unless we get God's attention, we have no hope of damnation or Redemption. Which is worse, hell or nothing? Only if we're caught and punished can we be saved.

"Burn the Louvre," the mechanic says, "and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names."

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. The farther you run, the more God wants you back.

This book (and by extension, its film adaptation) has inspired what I fear will be a life-long obsession. Chuck Palahniuk has a talent for fully realised, fleshed-out characters and a writing style that grips you and just keeps you engaged. He could be talking about pissing in tomato soup and you'd be lapping it up, dying to get to the next page. Fight Club is fast paced and mind bending and funny when you least expect it. There is never a dull moment, although, you might feel weird about soap after reading it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Death, Blood, Body horror, Cancer, and Mental illness

whentheresteeth's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Terminal illness, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

Minor: War

maxella's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

Gross, grotesque, terrifiying yet so needed. A good shake up, an ice bath, the realization of "yeah, everything is fucked" but like in a good way?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, and Violence

smallredboy's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

4.75

So much happens all the time

What if you kissed my hand to burn it with lye (and you were my hallucination and alter) (and we were both boys)?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Death

Moderate: Suicide

sofipitch's review against another edition

challenging dark funny tense fast-paced

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

4.5

I had to think out my rating for a second. Spoilers for anyone who like me was unfamiliar with the twist but this book does feature a violent character with DID. I dislike any media that demonizes DID such as Split because it does a lot of harm. Although they say Tyler is his alter-ego, they never clarify which terms to use, DID, schizophrenia, or what the narrator confirms suffering from in the beginning: insomnia. Since this is a work of satire the point of the novel isn't a murder mystery or a look how scary ppl w/ mental illness are I will give it a pass. The point of the novel is how poorly our society treats the lower class, how men who aren't taught good coping mechanisms, and how a society that doesn't try to help one another is going to lead to violence. So I liked this book because of the anti capitalist sentiment. And the idea that our culture creates men entrenched in toxic masculinity. It's basically a "we live in a society" book. So because this book is very theme/metaphor oriented as opposed to plot oriented I won't write it off for a bad portrayal of psychosis/dissociation.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cancer, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, and Violence

Moderate: Drug abuse and Drug use

Minor: Abortion

abbieinwonderland's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Car accident, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Body shaming, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Abortion