Fight Club

Ive recently finished the novel Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, and i loved it. it is one of my favorite novels i have read. I have seen the movie before the book, which kind of ruined the book for me, however, the book is better than the movie. the writing style of the book is better because you can take what is given in the book and imagine any types of people you want to play the roles of the characters, the movie limits your mind to wander. The movie though is also very good because it stays true to the novel, minus some taking out of events in the novel. The whole backing to Fight Club is that people work at jobs that they hate so that they can buy stuff they don't really need. The whole idea is people become engulfed in having to be materialistic and that they forget how to live the life they want, other than buying things. The main character, whose name is unknown because of all the false names he gives while attending cancer treatment groups to help him fight his insomnia. The "Narrator"s friend and voice of reasoning, Tyler Durden, helps the narrator, more commonly called by readers "Joe", probably because he refers to himself and everyone else an average Joe, start Fight Club. Fight club is an underground controlled fight group in which people fight one another there are 8 rules to fight club that include, never talking about fight club, NEVER TALKING ABOUT FIGHT CLUB, only two people to a fight, no shirt no shoes, if someone goes out cold, or taps, fight is over, and you must fight if its your first night at the club. The fighting makes people know that they are alive. We revert to our animal instincts by needing only the bare necessities, such as a couple of pairs of clothes, food and shelter.
I highly recommend Reading the novel first, but also watching the movie.

http://www.thefilmjournal.com/issue8/fightclub.html