Fight Club: A Novel

The political theories discussed is what makes this book so great. the day I read it. motivated me to read more about political philosophy and become a better writer, thinker, and change the way I see life. Mad respect to Palahniuk, one of the most clever authors in history.

Before anything else, let me state that I did not watch the movie before I decided to read this book, so I wasn't sure of what I was expecting, so I think I can say that when I read this book, I was pretty open-minded regarding anything that could cross the story. When I was more or less in the middle of the book, I was starting to think that I had some kind of problem understanding what exactly was the point of this book. The story just didn't make any sense, it seemed like a series of random flashes of memory that the main character had. After I reached chapter 20, most of it started to make some sense, but when I finished the book, I had the feeling that it didn't really add much in my life. It has some very wise phrases, ok. In a subtle way, it says: "if you're doing something in your life that you don't like, stop spending time with that and go do something useful". And if that was the purpose of the book, I'm glad I was able to figure the message out. As for the Fight Club, the fact of it being there or not didn't really make much difference. So my overall thoughts about this book? It is fast-paced. It doesn't seem to obey to a logical order. It's made of random facts and occurrences that don't seem to have any connection, but they end up coming up together at a certain point of the book. Not exactly my favorite style. I get the feeling that I'll enjoy the movie a lot more.

The Fight Club is about an unnamed main character who finds propose in life (by an unconventional/antisocial way) and breaks free from a consumer society. The brilliance of this work is it’s able to connect or resonate with the everyman of this (or Gen X) generation.