Karen Lane
Mrs. Arnold
English H. 10
February 26, 2015
Fight Club
Fight Club is a novel written in 1996 by Chuck Palahniuk. It is written in the point of view of the unnamed and unidentified main character. The book follows this guys quest for sleep. He is an insomniac who frequently attends testicular cancer support groups to understand the real meaning of suffering, later to cry, and thusly sleep. His ritualistic attendance at these groups is interrupted and his life changes soon after. The title, Fight Club, comes into play when he meets a friend at a bar, Tyler, and they start a fighting club to deal with the emotional trauma of their lives, replacing suffering with the release of anger. The novel has been described as a mental health satire, which seems appropriate, (guess you will have to read to find out). Maybe it was just me, but the ending of this book was pretty trippy. I was totally caught off guard and in the most impactful way. This is now one of my favorite books, definitely making my top 10 list and worth reading. Surprised myself with how much I enjoyed this one. So why did I like it so much? First, the imagery. For example, “Walter from Microsoft smiles his steam shovel jaw like a marketing tool tanned the color of barbeque potato chips” (Palahniuk 48). and, “The rain trickles down through the house, and everything wooden swells and shrinks..” (Palahniuk 57). It was beautifully written in my opinion, just the way I think and the way I want to write. Not to give too much away, the book was written with no filter and is not young adult literature! Finally! Cursing like real dialogue should, choppy sentences, descriptive language, modern references, and real life relationships (even touching on consumer capitalism) fill this book to the edges of its pages. Although the story is a little farther from reality, it brings the reader back down from ironic, stereotypical, predictable stories with a twist at the end that caught my little brain off-guard. Definitely worth reading if you’ve got two hours or so, and will even make you laugh.
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