An astonishing debut...Fight Club is a dark, unsettling, and nerve-chafing satire. -- Seattle Times
A volatile, brilliantly creepy satire. -- Washington Post
A powerful, dark, original novel. This is a memorable debut by an important writer. -- Robert Stone
Fight Club is hot. It's great. Even I can't write this well. -- Thom Jones
This brilliant bit of nihilism succeeds where so many self-described transgressive novels do not: It's dangerous because it's so compelling. -- Kirkus Reviews
A noir fable with a punch...A genuine, two-fisted talent. -- Katherine Dunn
Amazing and artful disturbance. Fight Club is for everybody who thinks and loves the fine American language. -- Barry Hannah
Irresistible...As with chocolate or pornography, you struggle to savor it slowly, yet feel compelled to zip through its smart, atomic, nightmarish world. A visionary novel of beautiful violence and creepy intensity. -- Scott Heim
Palahniuk's utterly original creation will make even the most jaded reader sit up and take notice. -- Publishers Weekly
A ferocious, taut, mesmerizing novel whose economical stylishness and rigorous, perverse philosophical underpinnings put one in mind of Camus' The Stranger and J. G. Ballard's Crash. -- Dennis Cooper