Fight Club
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"The narrator, an insurance investigator prone to depression and insomnia, finds temporary joy and distraction by attending various support groups. But he keeps running into another support group fraud named Marla, which spoils his fun. Meanwhile, he also meets a free-lance projectionist named Tyler Durden, who splices frames from porn movies into mainstream features and suggests they undermine capitalist society with dangerous pranks and the Fight Club -- a group devoted to bare knuckles, all-out battles between similarly confused and frustrated young males. Someone bombs the narrator's apartment, and he has to move into an abandoned house with Tyler. Eventually clandestine fight clubs spring up all over the country, and our hero finds himself uncomfortably stuck within a passionate triangle between Tyler and Marla. Something's gotta give, but what? Palahniuk's strange, offbeat 1996 debut novel came to a deservedly wider audience when it was made into a movie starring Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, and Helena Bonham Carter. Crested sapwood supportable noradrenaline runout. " David Loftus, Resident Scholar
" Fight Club centers on a nameless narrator whose job it is to determine whether or not recalls are necassary for a major car manufacturer. He's generally unhappy with his life, and with how consumerism has forced him to be exactly like everyone else. His body responds to his mental (maybe spiritual) anguish by inflicting him with a severe case of insomnia, which he discovers he can treat by attending support groups for various fatal/life-changing illnesses or conditions. His unique form of therapy is rendered useless when another faker, Marla Singer, starts visiting the same support groups that he does. He finds that with another faker present, he can't release the emotions he needs to release, and thus, can't sleep. They eventually work out a schedule (which is in Marla's favour) so that they don't have to see each other again at the groups. Eventually the narrator meets Tyler Durden, a free spirit who works low-paying jobs seemingly just for the fun of screwing around while on the clock and getting away with childish pranks. When the narrator's luck takes a turn for the worse, he moves in with Durden. Durden confesses that he's never been in a fight before, and would like to be in one. The narrator obliges, and they beat each other up. Both are surprised at how good it felt, better than therapy. Eventually more men join in in their late-night brawls, and Fight Club is born. As Fight Club grows and spreads across the country, Durden recruits the most loyal (and mindless) fighters and starts a new group, Project Mayhem. The group's ultimate goal is to eventually do away with consumerism and to initiate the downfall of civilization, a goal which the narrator is aghast at. After several scary encounters with the diehard Project Mayhem and the clearly insane Tyler, the narrator takes it upon himself (with aid from the reluctant Marla) to stop Durden's plans and disband Project Mayhem. " Colin Kehm, Resident Scholar

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Plot
Tone of book? - humorous
Time/era of story - 1980's-1999
Romance/Romance Problems Yes
Kind of romance: - love triangle/polygon
Kind of sport: - boxing
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Sports Story? Yes
Lover is - a criminal (definitely)

Main Character
Gender - Male
Age: - 20's-30's
Eccentric/Mental Yes
Eccentric: - emotionally unstable
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 20's-30's
Eccentric/Smart/Dumb: Yes
Eccentric: - obsessed - wild
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - throughout most of the book.
How sensitive is this character? - mean, arrogant
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - bulging muscles

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 4 (a fair amount)
United States Yes
The US: - West - Northeast
City? Yes

Style
Person - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references - use of artificial tools
Unusual Style: - a lot of flashback and forwards - a lot of stream of consciousness
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog

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