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4.02 AVERAGE
4.02 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
challenging
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I like the story, but there’s something about the flow/writing that made me have to read sentences more than once.
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I saw the movie first so it really ruined the plot twist. Still in all it was an interesting read. The main characters internal struggles are portrayed well. The main character rebelled against his mundane life; the line “the things we own end up owning us” showed how we work shit jobs just to afford a place to live and things to fill that space. Then we measure ourselves by the things we’ve accumulated to justify the meaningless existence that we’re living. This book explores the main characters sanity and his desire for something more than the small comforts he has surrounded himself with.
This book was great fun to read. It’s light and breezy and I found myself laughing often. I’ll definitely have to look for more books written by Chuck Palahniuk, I enjoy his writing style and his humor.
The controversy around this book makes me laugh—it is the bastion of the adolescent and the epitome of toxic masculinity. Is it okay to have a fight club? I think so (clearly you need some sort of outlet for your frustrations, and some people are more physically inclined).
Is it okay to extend your juvenile pranks and frustration with the world into toxic anarchic behaviors? Yeah—no. Where does the adolescent idyll cross the line into farce and satire? The brilliance of this book is in seeing who can separate an idea from reality.
If you can’t see your leader for who they are—maybe you deserve what you choose...
Is it okay to extend your juvenile pranks and frustration with the world into toxic anarchic behaviors? Yeah—no. Where does the adolescent idyll cross the line into farce and satire? The brilliance of this book is in seeing who can separate an idea from reality.
If you can’t see your leader for who they are—maybe you deserve what you choose...
It's times like these when I really wish I could give scores in fractions. I liked this book a lot better than the movie, which didn't make too much sense that time I watched it at 2AM in my mom's basement on a laptop at the behest of an older sister I never had. The book, however, I was able to follow, and I thoroughly enjoyed the writing. But I think the timing was wrong for me with this one. I wasn't expecting this to end well for the narrator, and I suppose it ended the best it could have, but watching everything spiral even more and more out of control was like being on a roller coaster that you were sure was going to end in an explosion of coaster car and a brick wall.
It's horrifying. I'm exactly the demo that would end up in a fight club, and things have arguably gotten worse since the book's publication. I think I need to detox with something lighthearted, like a nice adventure quest where there are good guys that can win, and where winning doesn't involve too much of a sacrifice. It's incredibly unrealistic, I know, but hope sounds like a good idea right now. Maybe I'll give it five stars if I read it when the world's in a more stable spot. Hopefully I can read Fight Club again from a future where it actually reads like satire and not a prediction.
It's horrifying. I'm exactly the demo that would end up in a fight club, and things have arguably gotten worse since the book's publication. I think I need to detox with something lighthearted, like a nice adventure quest where there are good guys that can win, and where winning doesn't involve too much of a sacrifice. It's incredibly unrealistic, I know, but hope sounds like a good idea right now. Maybe I'll give it five stars if I read it when the world's in a more stable spot. Hopefully I can read Fight Club again from a future where it actually reads like satire and not a prediction.
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Probably the finest book of the past 50 years. Seriously. If you haven't read this, then you suck.