#10 in Humour
Fight Club
- 223
- Pages
- about 4 h
- Reading time
- Oregon Book Awards
- Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award
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Our view
Short, fast and angry, Palahniuk’s first novel is written in clipped sentences that carry the story at a sprint. Under the violence it is a satire about men who find their working lives empty and go looking for something that feels real. The style is divisive, and some readers feel its fixation on manliness has aged. It still provokes, and those who know the story from the film will find the last third differs.
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About the book
Fight Club is a 1996 satirical novel by Chuck Palahniuk. It was Palahniuk's first published novel, and follows the experiences of an unnamed protagonist struggling with insomnia. The protagonist finds relief by impersonating a seriously ill person in several support groups, after his doctor remarks that insomnia is not "real suffering" and that he should find out what it is really like to suffer. The protagonist then meets a mysterious man named Tyler Durden and establishes an underground fighting club as radical psychotherapy.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.2 across 1,981 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 93% of the weight and the score stays at 8.2 — the Humour average of 7.8 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.0 | 137 | 7% |
| Google Books | 9.0 | 215 | 11% |
| Hardcover | 8.2 | 1.6K | 82% |
Frequently asked
How long is Fight Club?
It has 223 pages — shorter than 69% of the ranked books in Humour.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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Same shelf — Humour — with scores between 8.2 and 8.3, closest to this book.
