Genre: Fiction--Novel
Completed: 15 August 2016
Summary & Review:
Trapped in a dead-end job with no prospects, no family, and no happiness, the unnamed narrator suffers from severe insomnia. The only way he can sleep is by visiting cancer support groups and crying his eyes out. That is the only way he can sleep, that is, until he meets Tyler Durden. After a night of drinking, Tyler asks him to punch him as hard as he can and the first Fight Club is born. As the club grows, it soon becomes about more than just letting out anger and aggression and morphs into Project Mayhem, a movement dedicated to the destruction of modern civilization. Can Tyler be stopped before it is too late?
Believe it or not, at its heart, Fight Club is a love story between the narrator and Marla, a girl he meets at one of his support groups. But, this is definitely not a Nicholas Sparks love story. Mixed in with the growing relationship between the two is anarchy, violence, schizophrenia, terrorism, and more.
The 1999 movie adaptation of this book was awesome and for a long time I was interested in reading the novel. Seeing the movie first kind of ruined the major revelation or surprise in the book, but oh well.
Rating: 6.5
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