Fight Club
A man who struggles with insomnia meets a colorful extremist, and they create a secret organization together. Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist in this, his first book. Fight Club’s estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden, an enigmatic young man who holds secret after-hours boxing matches in the basement of bars. There, two men fight "as long as they have to." This is a gloriously original work that exposes the darkness at the core of our modern world.
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37mentions
36people
2009–2026years
16% recommend84% neutral
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What Hacker News says
- Neuromancer - I just love how it makes me feel. The dystopia feels relatable and I find the writing lyrical.
Fight Club - I love the pace and the style. It's a dopamine hit to read it.
- Atlas Shrugged is one of those books that is often life-changing. Whether that is positive or not depends wildly upon the reader and their situation.
Other books I'd put in that category are Fight Club and Walden
- Altruism - Mathieu Ricard
Search Inside Yourself - Chade-Meng Tan
Bible - several authors
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Eléments de Philosophie Angélique - Denis Marquet (french)
Au coeur de l'instant - Jean Bouchart d'Orval (french)
- * Anything by Cortázar.
* Trainspotting,
* Fight Club
* Anything by Carl Sagan, specially Contact
* Lord of the Rings
* The Hobbit
* And finally:
Anything by Michael Ende:
The Neverending Story,
Momo (one of my faves).
- The Alchemist.
On the Road.
Stranger In a Strange Land.
From the Earth to the Moon
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Life of Pi
Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance.
The Little Prince
Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? / Purple Cow
Coders at Work / Founders at Work
Fight Club
- Peacocking is more due to over-reading Neil Street's The Game than anything else. If you're going to base your ideal of masculinity on a book then Fight Club is a better choice...
