Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club

Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club

Vintage

Chuck Palahniuk's darkly funny first novel tells the story of a disenfranchised young man frustrated with his bureacratic job and superficial relationships and disillusioned with the consumer culture's prepackaged pleasures. Relief for him and his peers comes in the form of Tyler Durden, the intensely charismatic inventor of Fight Club. Waiters, clerks, and middlemen seek out the visceral satisfaction of secret after-hours boxing matches in the basements of bars, thinking they have found a way to live beyond their confining and stultifying lives.More...

Chuck Palahniuk's darkly funny first novel tells the story of a disenfranchised young man frustrated with his bureacratic job and superficial relationships and disillusioned with the consumer culture's prepackaged pleasures. Relief for him and his peers comes in the form of Tyler Durden, the intensely charismatic inventor of Fight Club. Waiters, clerks, and middlemen seek out the visceral satisfaction of secret after-hours boxing matches in the basements of bars, thinking they have found a way to live beyond their confining and stultifying lives. But in Tyler's world there are no rules, no limits, no brakes.

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If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?

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It`s only after you`ve lost everything, [...] that you`re free to do anything.

Maybe self-improvement isn`t the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.

We are not special.
We are not crap or trash, either.
We just are.
We just are, and what happens just happens.

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You`re trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.

If you don`t know what you want, [...] you end up with a lot you don`t.

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