Fight Club Review

Well it's been a month since I have showed any sign of life on this blog, but I'm back with a vengeance. Life has been a bit rough, and I've taken my hits low and high. With that said I took Fight Club under my wing, the perfect book, during this time. This is Chuck Palahniuk first book, and it's was masterfully written.

Fight Club has an interesting beginning, starting at the end. If you are like most people and have seen the movie, well just expect the book to be twice as good. The movie blew me away, but the book made my world spin twice as fast with a huge overdose of anarchism associated with it. The ideas, plot line, characters, and situations encountered can really make one think about their existence on this measly planet we call earth. The main character let's say Cornelius, since we never really no his name, is living a worthless life, dragging on silently while working his day job for a huge car business. Until he meets Tyler Durden, someone that does everything and anything Cornelius is afraid to do. Pretty soon Cornelius finds himself facing the end of his own existence when he comes home to nothing one day. The thoughts that fly through his head after he meets Tyler are those of many middle age men in society caught in the age of nothing. As Palahniuk takes note that we have no wars, but we are own great depression. We were raised to think we would be rock stars, famous actors, or athletes; after we swallow the hard truth we take our desk job and just play are little role in society. This is the main point behind the whole book, "Accepting nothing." This can be looked at from two views. As not accepting what we are suppose to, or by just accepting nothing more out of life. Tyler builds an army of revolutionaries who aren't going to accept nothing. They are saying no, they are finally going to change their lives. Tyler shows people that they can do what they want, and there is nothing more brilliant then the one passage were Cornelius holds a man at gun point telling him to follow his dreams, and that he will keep his license to check on him every so often to make sure he's not working at a convenience store but going to school to become a veterinarian. As well know though the whole back setting to this book is everyone has join a club were they fight to release themselves of everyday issues. This fight club grows so quickly, and soon overtakes all males around the nation.

With this new found power of being a leader, and showing males that they can go back to the stone age by pounding on each others faces once again. That they can do so much more with their lives if they can take these harsh beat downs once a week. In one part Palahniuk perfectly explains that the world slows down in a way that can only be experienced after you have been punched so much. This book is a classic, it should get a Pulitzer Prize, and be part of 8th grade literature classes across the world. It let's people know that you will fail in life, but that shouldn't stop you from following your dreams. Not everyone is going to make it to the big leagues, but there are many more things out there that individuals can accomplish on their own. The climatic almost ending that takes place about 3/4 in the book when Tyler is really Cornelius makes perfect sense. That everyone wants to be something, but they are just afraid to act a certain way in the eyes of others. This is no more obvious then in today's society with people living behind computer screens and doing the talking from the comfort of their home. Most books are for pleasure or just for a good story; this book has a harsh lesson, get up and live your life or else you will regret it. 5 out of 5.....I really mean it, this book is by far one of the best to come out of the 90s. This should be on everyones to do list and I mean like top 10 before you die.