A review by amandaclaire
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

dark funny 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? N/A

3.5

For whatever reason, I was expecting Fight Club to feature a lot more of the fight club.

I doubt I'll have any interesting thoughts about this book that haven't already been written to death about, but I did want to note this for myself: I did not realize that the Tyler Durden reveal was supposed to be a twist! Outside of its infamous manifesto, I knew nothing about Fight Club going into this book, but by the time Tyler was introduced I thought it was supposed to be obvious that he was a figment of the narrator's imagination. Possible that I subconsciously knew about the twist thanks to the ubiquitousness of Fight Club, but I thought that it added a great dimension to the story. Making it obvious that the narrator is Tyler Durden added to the delusional feel of the book itself — dramatic irony, and all that jazz.
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