Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

58 reviews

chris_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Violence, Car accident, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Cancer, Fatphobia, Gore, Blood, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Gun violence, Racial slurs, Transphobia, and Murder

arj_51's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious reflective tense fast-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

3.5

A very gnarly read at times but the fast insomniac style prose was fun to read 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

elwh's review against another edition

dark reflective tense

4.25

Interesting to see the differences between the book and the movie. The lengths at which the narrator and Tyler go to destroy each other is greater here. I liked the movie more, but always love having another medium to engage with a story that puts my thoughts in a full nelson. Would not recommend listening to the audiobook while drifting in and out of sleep…your subconscious might take notes. (But seriously, the repetition makes it difficult to track where you fell asleep.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship and Violence

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Addiction, Car accident, Suicide attempt, and Abandonment

emilyyyhillsss's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

“I know this because Tyler knows this”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Fire/Fire injury

perth_is's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

wishyouweresober's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, and Murder

baileycroft's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Suicide attempt, and Murder

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

harper11's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Torture, Suicide attempt, and Murder

alex_johnson_2021's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

This is not normally a book I would gravitate towards but it definitely hit on themes that I agree and disagree with. The way that the author tackled through the life the narrator has before and the lift he has after Tyler Durden is so seamless. We go from having two different personalities, the narrator, who has been playing it safe for so long and Tyler who is ballsy at everything he does. Throughout the novel, it seems as though the narrator goes from his playing it safe attitude to not knowing where he starts and Tyler ends. It also gets at the idea of the working class people who go through the jobs and brunt work that they're not happy about and them sticking a big middle finger to the upper class rich people for the way that they benefit from the system. I probably wouldn't do most of the things that Tyler does in this book, but you see the way that his charming personality and the ballsy approach he has make an effect on creating this brotherhood across the country that would do anything for him. It's just so crazy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Blood, Murder, and Classism

12_gon's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad medium-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

'gotta admit! love to fight club, but we only fight club outside... '

Palahniuk tunes Intersectional Feminism to young men lost in the dissonant notes of white male rage and mommy issues. As the reader wanders through the protaganist's self-harm adventure stealing the pain of others and discovering the highs of sleep-deprived mania, we meet Marla and Tyler.

See, Tyler is how the quiet, polite boy ignored by his mom, turns into the schizophrenic mass shooter. Tyler tells the protaganist about Caste Necropolitics patriarchy CAPITALISM$$$ "You see reader, us guy bros who like know about Ruby Ridge, can see past the bedtimes and sobriety the (m)asses are so fond of hehe.. like communism could just work if us genetically superior MEN(!!!) just destroyed everything! Then us group of guys undergoing psychosis cause we haven't slept in a bit, can solve the Jewish CAPITALISM$$$ question... OwO x3"

Like terrorism, but way cooler cause our Turner Diaries is the Communist Manifesto BAYBEE!

The book's appeal to me has evolved over the year's. I enjoy Palahniuk's embrace of psychosis and the "sad clown" ending of Tyler winning terrorism. A lot of people pretend they read the book, when they just watched the movie and probably didn't think about it much. In the book, when you don't sleep, self-harm (beat yourself up hehe [cause Fight Club]); you become abusive to the point of homicide. You know, the bad guy. Palahniuk is pretty literal, and meth psychosis is well-known in the seedier parts of the LGBTQ community. Ask around. The prose is very accurate, but not precise. Which I find the fear of failure mirrors poetically in Realistic Horror. The absurdity mirrors survivor's guilt. It'll grow with you.

Sucks for Bob though. RIP... hmmm... you ever think the guy with tits, no balls, and who spent the first two weeks in-utero as a female fetus like every human does might be a woman? Well I'm not going read his chromosomes or diary, so yeah.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Gore, Self harm, Violence, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis