Book Genres

My second book, Fight Club, fits into the genre of Thriller, and it fits perfectly into the subgenre of Psychological Thriller. I believe this because it's very thrilling with how much violence, fighting, and mystery actually goes on. It's also psychological, though, because the main character is fighting with a character that is in his head the whole time. It's very much a mind game, and in the end it leaves you with that "whoa." feeling of being tricked. It doesn't completely fit into this category, however, because when I think of thrillers I always tend to think of a murder or a kidnapping, or just a story that needs to be solved. There is nothing really driving this plot line for the beginning part of the book, and it's just detailing these weird things that happen to this odd man, so it doesn't feel too much like a thriller. When he starts to question who Tyler Durden is, however, it starts to feel more like a thriller with something that you need to figure out. You begin to think back to everything he has ever said about Tyler and wonder who exactly he is. You start to question what exactly the narrator meant when he said things like "I know this because Tyler knows this" and why Tyler told the narrator never to talk to Marla about him. It begins to drive you slightly crazy wondering about what exactly was going on and who everyone is. But being driven this crazy is a good thing because it fuels your desire to keep reading. It makes you read faster, but also closer, trying to pick up all the little details you can to try to figure it out. You begin to get an idea of what's happening, but you're still driven to keep reading father into the book. Once you get to the end and the author reveals everything, all the little details, the madness that was actually going on the whole time, even though it's exactly what you thought it was, you're still blown away.