Fight Club

Where do I even begin? I re-read 'Fight club' for the third time this week, and plus the endless pop references to it and the popularity of the movie, I would bet I about know the thing by heart by now. Neither the nihilistic message nor the 'fight' club its self are the invention of the author, Chuck Palahniuk. Fight clubs have existed since the beginning of civilization, and nihilism has its ancient history as well.

Even all the unthinkable anecdotes throughout the story (Tyler splicing pornography into family films, The narrator attending cancer support meetings despite his being cancer free to make himself feel better) Palahniuk has openly admitted are recollections borrowed from his friends and their friends.

However fight club is an incomparable book, its impact and message is incomparable to any other books on its subject, indeed almost any book of the century. This is because of Palahniuk’s ability to discern and translate the feelings of a generation. His mastery of story telling is truly unparalleled in the past half century of writing, and ok, he’s actually really original. I just wanted to point out that it’s his ability to comprehend and communicate through metaphors like "I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more."