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Fight Club

By: Chuck Palahniuk
Narrated by: Jim Colby
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Every weekend, in basements and car parks across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything.

Fight Club is the invention of Tyler Durden, projectionist, waiter, and dark, anarchic genius. And it's only the beginning of his plans for revenge on the world...

©1996 Chuck Palahniuk (P)2008 Recorded Books LLC

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Excellent novel excellently read

This was my first audiobook in over a year, I resubbed to Audible in hopes of kickstarting my reading for 2019 and Fight Club was the first one I came across that was on my TBR, which I also recently culled. So.

Fight Club is a book I have always meant to read, as the film is one of my favourites, as I'm sure is the case for many people. What struck me listening to this was how incredibly well the film captured the writing style of
Palahniuk - it is written in a very interesting, train-of-thought way which you don't come across very often. I haven't read any other boks of Chuck
Palahniuk's, so I don't know whether this is normal style, but I really enjoyed it. I have a new appreciation for how faithful the film was to the book.

It provides a very believable and, at times, cringeworthy insight into the mind of someone who has achieved all his meagre goals and has found his life wanting as a result, moreso than the film as we spend more time inside the protagonist's head in the text. I can't remember many points where the narrative wasn't consistently interrupted by the snarky voice in his head interjecting with non-sequiturs or observations, and it all felt very real to how people in that kind of situation would go through their days.

As for the audio, Single narrator (which is somewhat fitting), but lends a different voice to both the protagonist and Tyler, as well as other characters, without becoming caricatureish and painful. An intense performance, and very well done by Jim Colby. This would be a great first audiobook to recommend - not too long, and well produced. Probably tied with the Jurassic Park audiobook by Scott Brick for my favourite I've listened to so far.

I look forward to my next one, as my car rides feel somewhat empty without the Protagonist, Tyler and Marla's existensial ramblings filling my ears.

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It's an amazing book...

It's an amazing book... Crazy and amazing. The duality the philosophy the decay, create a terrifying and compelling book

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Do yourself a favour, read it! Listen to it ! Don’t go talking about it!

One of my favourite books ever and in my top 5 favourite movies of all time , always has been always will be !!!!

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Too brief to build a great story.

It's a great story and well written but it lacks the length to really build the characters and let you get into it. The writers of the film have done the hard work and filled in those details for us. Having watched that first I was forced to rely on the film to carry the story and the characters. It's a shame as the writing is otherwise interesting and creative and the plot is revolutionary.

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Fascinating Listen

I really enjoyed this book. The narration was excellent. It's a fascinating look into the world of fiction vs reality...how easy it can be to trap yourself in your own delusion..

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not bad

it's good overall in story but performance is okay
it's almost the same to the movie

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Great book

I feel like i was falling down psychological rabbit holes quite frequently listening to this. Some of the ideas, tangential thoughts, were things I had not comprehended before. It was interesting as a book. The ending shocked me.

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Profound and concise

Epic counter culture bible ; the movie tracks pretty close to the book. A couple of extra insights here that didn’t make the movie (which was all time itself)

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Loved it

A great listen! I really enjoyed it. Now I just need to watch the book to compare!

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