Book Covers

There are two covers that are used for this novel before it was made into a book. There is one cover for the paperback edition, and one cover for the hardcover book. The paperback version is just a fist that is placed in the center of the cover with red stripes placed over it. The author, Chuck Palahniuk's name is placed at the bottom of the page in very large and very bold letters, and the title, Fight Club, is placed in the same large, bold font at the top of the page. I feel like the creator of the cover did this to show that the book is mainly about violence, but it's also got some crazy mind-games going on behind it. The fighting aspect is shown with the fist, and the brain games are shown with the interesting pattern of the red lines across the whole cover. I like how the creator put the title and the authors name in the same size, because it kind of shows one of the main themes in the book: how everyone is just as significant (or worthless) as everyone, that we are all the same "trash of the world". I believe that this cover helped market the book more towards the men who are drawn to the fighting aspect of this novel.
There is another cover that was released only on the hardcover version of the book. Not as many people have seen this version as have seen the paperback one. When the movie was released, they rereleased the book with a cover that related to the movie so that it would get more publicity.