Audience: A must read for anyone and everyone. (*Note: May not be suitable for children, but they should read it anyway.)
Genre: Apocalyptic Fantasy
Topics of Focus: Action, fighting, apocalypse, romance, consumerism.
Red Flags: Violence, mild language, references to sex/pornography, references to unapproved behavior in the workplace such as urinating in an improper receptacle, as well as other bodily fluids being dispensed in a non-traditionally unacceptable way, where there is a risk that a person of a higher societal status might consume something that has been contaminated by such acts.
“The first rule of fight club is you do not talk about fight club. The second rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight club.”
These are the first two rules of fight club, an underground group of men who hold controlled fighting matches in the basement of a bar. They don’t fight because of arguments, or because one is smaller than the other, they fight because they can. For the hell of it.
The man who starts the first fight club has no name, except the fake ones he puts on name tags that he wears to various support groups. Groups like Remaining Men Together, for testicular cancer. Or one for blood parasites. Or brain parasites. The list goes on. Our anonymous main character has none of these ailments or afflictions. The only disease he can truthfully say he has is insomnia. He has found the best way for him to sleep is to surround himself with people who think he is dying. Every night. Without these various support groups, he will not sleep. So, when another fake support group attender named Marla Singer shows up, it becomes worthless to him. That is when he decides to start fight club, with the help of a man named Tyler Durden.
Fight club is a place where men can escape from the stresses of everyday life and let all their anger out into one task: beating the crap out of each other. What starts as a way for men surrounded by consumerism to feel liberated from societal norms quickly turns into a way of life. With Tyler Durden as their leader, they go beyond fighting in the basement of a bar to carrying out various missions designed to cause mass mayhem.
Annotation by Ian Jorgensen
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