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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 Psychological Genre Fiction Action & Adventure Unreliable Narrator Dark Humor Dystopian Satire Literature & Fiction Science Fiction Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-Ins
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Not better nor not worse than the movie!
Was very interesting hearing his split personality speak in narration only as opposed to with the visuals of the movie.

So good!

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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes i would recommend this audiobook to others. Because its well written and narrated. Many people know this story, from the movie with the same name, and the book dont dissapoint.

What did you like best about this story?

I like the story, even thoug i have watched the movie many times, i still enjoyed listning to this audiobook.

What does Jim Colby bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

i think Jim Colby did a great job narrating this book. the sound went a lilltle up and down sometimes, but else great

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Some of the few scences there is in the book, but not in the movie was exciting to hear.

great book

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I rarely prefer a movie over its book, but Fight Club is one of those rare cases. The audiobook was raw and unsettling in the right ways, but it lacked the visceral punch the film delivered. The visuals, pacing, and psychological tension came alive so much more powerfully on screen.

Prefer the movie

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Any additional comments?

When I first saw Fight Club back in 1999, it rocked my 16 year old self's world. It rocked the world of everyone around me. It was strange and new and different and violent and it made us think - which was completely unheard of at the time.

I watched it at least 50 times since, and to this day I consider it as one of the greatest movies of all times. But for some reason I never got around to read the book it was based, until now. And so, here are some thoughts:

1. This is a great book. Really. It was as good as promised and I highly recommend to anyone. Palahnuik is a great author, and I enjoyed every book of his I read.

2. Most surprisingly, hearing this book made we appreciate the movie adaptation even more. I completely understand each and every change and edit done to the story, and it is one of the only times I can think of where I can't honestly say that the book is better than the movie. They are very similar but in some ways also very different, and both of them have their own qualities.

3. That said, written violence always hits me harder than graphical one*. There were parts of the book I had to stop myself from fast forwarding.

Highly recommended

*pun definitely intended

Great book, great performance

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Good but not as good as the movie in my opinion. There is some interesting gems in there though

Good but not great

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