Fight Club

by Chuck Palahniuk
published in 1996


So I have gotten bored with a book once again, not because the book itself is boring, but because that the book tends to repeat a lot of information about the same thing in the beginning. I am sure however that “Crossing Hitler” will reach a point in which it becomes very interesting. “Fight Club”, by Chuck Palahniuk, is interesting because of the complexity of it. It is complex because it is a first person story of a guy. This guy doesn't seem to have name, helping me personally because that is one less name I have to remember while reading the book. Names aren't really a problem in this book either, there is Tyler and Marla, the two main people that the guy mentions. This guy doesn't really have friends. Hes the type of person that keeps to himself. The thing is though, he wants to be heard, not ignored by people on the streets, but actually given full attention to. That explains why he goes to support groups. I question why support groups help him the way they do. He can live with getting close to people that he knows will die. Most people would die at the thought of that. It isn't that comfort should not be given to those people that is terrifying, it is the act of losing a dear friend that people would be scared of. The main character just seems so set apart from society that he has almost no feelings for the lives of other people.