• Fight Club

  • By: Chuck Palahniuk
  • Narrated by: Jim Colby
  • Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (11,020 ratings)

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Fight Club

By: Chuck Palahniuk
Narrated by: Jim Colby
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Internationally best-selling author Chuck Palahniuk's uproarious and irreverent debut novel Fight Club was transformed into an Academy Award-nominated film starring Edward Norton and Brad Pitt.

When a listless office employee (the narrator) meets Tyler Durden, his life begins to take on a strange new dimension. Together they form Fight Club - a secretive underground group sponsoring bloody bare-knuckle boxing matches staged in seedy alleys, vacant warehouses, and dive-bar basements. Fight Club lets ordinary men vent their suppressed rage, and it quickly develops a fanatical following. Before long it takes on all the trappings of a quasi-religious cult, replete with a devastating ideological mission to accomplish.

A masterpiece of raw violence and black humor, this exciting novel challenges listeners to see the world through a new - and quite possibly deranged - set of eyes. Acclaimed narrator Jim Colby brings out the dark satire in this tale of modern alienation.

©1996 Chuck Palahniuk (P)2008 Recorded Books, LLC

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The movie is honestly better

I don’t regret reading this book and it is a interesting short read. The way it’s written gets a little annoying.

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my favorite my whole life.

I first really started to look inward because of the movie, and eventually book Fight Club. I feel like this book doesn't give you answers or solutions, but makes you ask questions of the world around you.

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Loved it again

Watched the movie, read the book years ago and now listened to the audiobook. Going to read the sequels next.

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Amazing

I was going to re-read this book but honestly, I really wanted to experience the audiobook, and was not disappointed! 5/5 for me

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One of my favorites

The writing ability to capture us in this second person narrative is as amazing as the plot.

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Punch in the guts

Palahniuk is a literary sadist. This novel hit me square in the solar plexus. Personally thought it was better, deeper and more graphic than the film. I enjoyed this book immensely. I love that a lot of the tone of the book is set based on the idea that current society is run by a group of men who were raised by women with few male role models. I also suggest "Haunted" to anyone who enjoyed this. "Haunted" is twice as graphic and brings to surface many unpleasant truths about "our" society and its general (mal)function.

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Love it

I'd tell you about this, but I'd break the first rule.

I've seen the movie, read the book, and now listened to the audio. Each medium has something unique to bring to this awesome story.

I would totally love to hear this narrated by Ed Norton, but this version is very good. Repeat listener.

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Great book! Narration is fabulous!

Loved the movie, and now. finally knowing the book. Jim Colby's narration brought all the characters to life and kept the pace of the book moving forward quickly. It was done so well and the story so compelling and short I will listen again for sure.

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amazing

never have I read a book that the movie adaptation got right. to listen to the narrator tell this story you feel like Tyler yourself.

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Just as good as the Movie

Just as good as the Movie, although it is only slightly different. Beware though, it'll make you feel like you're just as crazy as Tyler.

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