Lets talk about 'Fight Club'

“Fight Club” is an interesting book to say the least. Written from the view point of an insomnic man who lives a boring every day life as a recall analyst and spends his free time ordering furniture from IKEA magazines who’s life is turned upside down when he meets Tyler Durden, shortly after his apartment is blown to bits.

Throughout the novel many interesting things occur. First of all being that two grown men with jobs start an underground fight club that attracts other grown men with jobs. This club serves one purpose: to go against the basic laid down rules of society and as well as being a way to make these people feel free. Every thing about fight club goes against social norms, these men beat the crap out of each other and love it no matter if they win or lose, they just love the rush.

This book is written in the most weird ways I’ve ever seen. The book transitions from the main characters conversations with others to the conversations he has with himself while having conversations with others. The book is also written in quite a jumpy way. One minute he is talking to his boss, the next he is noting how if his boss is wearing  a gray tie it must be Tuesday, the next he is talking about how him and Tyler sabotaged some soups at some fancy rich hotel restaurant. The book flows like the mind of the main character. He is not consistent with any of his thoughts and is mind is constantly traveling from place to place, even though most of those places have nothing to do with the intial conversation he was involved in. By writing like this the author has really embodied the insomnic and metal problems the character is going through. Also, it talks about how it possible to make explosives from parts of soap. You may need that later on, you never know.

Overall,  if dark humored, twisted novels are not your thing I’d recommend staying away from ‘Fight Club,’ but hey, if you’re looking for a new writing style to check out or read about some really interesting characters I would highly recommend reading this novel. It could also mentally scar you though. For instance I was unaware that you could make soup by using human fat. Interesting.

To end this post here is a picture of Dave Franco: