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Бойцовский клуб by Chuck Palahniuk

68 reviews

radiobreadd's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Gun violence, Sexual content, and Terminal illness

Minor: Drug abuse and Abortion

lonely_tardigrade's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Violence, Excrement, Car accident, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Cancer, Fatphobia, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Rape, Forced institutionalization, Stalking, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

astrobri's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

What can I say. I love this book. I didn’t expect to like this book as much as I did. People have been telling me to watch the movie for awhile but I wanted to read the book first. There were a few parts that were pretty confusing. It starts off in the present then goes back through flashbacks. I honestly didn’t expect all of the twists in the book. There was a lot of foreshadowing but I just thought the book was going to be about something completely different than it was. 
       The book has so many strong themes along with such complexity that I didn’t expect. I think when you really dive deep into this book, you see all of the critiques about society. Some large themes include anti consumerism, enlightenment, rebellion, violence, masculinity, etc. There are different things people can take from this book and the way they interpret it. For me it was really about society, capitalism and the lack of meaning in peoples lives. People need to find what they feel strongly about. What hill are you willing to die for? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, and Suicide attempt

elm45's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Body horror, Cancer, and Blood

Minor: Gun violence and Fire/Fire injury

greta_1251's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Gun violence, Terminal illness, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Gun violence, Suicide, Car accident, and Murder

antidietleah's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

rchlfrkr's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

semisinful's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I expected this to be a hard read but boy oh boy did I not expect just how hard of a read it was going to be. The first time I tried reading this I gave up three chapters in because the violent descriptions and the talk of how to make homemade explosives gave me that weird phantom pain in my knees. But this time I pushed forward and got through the whole book. I love the movie, it’s one of my favourite movies. But it was far more difficult to actually be in the narrator’s head the way you are in a book versus how it is watching it in a movie. 

Man some of this was really hard to swallow. I loved it though. It was so brutal but it felt incredibly authentic. My problem with a lot of books this brutal is inauthenticity. This was great.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

ru_th's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

We are not special. 
We are not crap or trash, either.
We just are. 
We just are, and what happens just happens. 
And God says, “No, that’s not right.” 
Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can’t teach God anything. 
God asks me what I remember.
I remember everything. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Gun violence, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Murder, and Toxic friendship

emequalsme's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

It’s hard to leave a review for this book without mentioning the movie, and wish I’d read it before I saw it. In knowing the whole story from the beginning, the book’s twist had no impact and left the whole thing feeling anticlimactic. That being said, I really enjoyed the relationship between the narrator and Marla in the book as opposed to the way they portrayed it onscreen. Palahniuk’s writing style is always somewhat disjointed and his classic “voice” has become classic because of works like this one. Glad I read it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis