You may have seen the movie. You remember the lines: "First rule about fight club... you don't talk about fight club," "I want you to hit me as hard as you can," and "I do not like them Sam-I-Am." Wait...
The book was written in a way very, VERY different than what I was used to. There were no quotations when the narrator spoke. Sometimes it took a moment to figure out whether it was a thought he was conveying or something he actually said aloud.
You could spend a lifetime talking about this novel. From the pace of it... the ending you could only predict if you saw the movie beforehand (or if you have an addiction to Wikipedia)... things that happened in the world after the novel... and things that existed long before it. A lot of us were left with the question...
Are there any Fight Clubs?
See? No quotation marks around that question. Because I'm the narrator.
That question isn't the one that matters to me. I know that people have been beating each other up long before Palahniuk's book and it won't stop anytime soon. People who can't even read will make a "club" like this. Our society is filled with the kinds of things that can destroy us by setting us free.
In the end, you're probably going to have the same amount of demons, nightmares, and holes in your cheeks. Your wounds both physical and metaphorical will exist all the same.
Then again... can we only achieve true enlightenment and utopia through chaos?
I will never allow myself to believe this. I don't see the past as our answer. I just see changes in this present in order for a brighter future.
An amazing book... an insightful author... and commentary on where we are, who we are, and what might be best for us.
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