It's only after we've lost everything, that we're free to do anything.

Fight Club Review:
Fight Club is by far one of the best books I've ever read. It is full of action, mystery, and psychological thrills that all keep you happy and on the edge of your seat. The entire time while reading it, I couldn't wait to get to the next page, the next chapter, the next big event.
Fight Club starts out with a man who is down on his luck going to the doctor for insomnia. The doctor tells him to try natural remedies, and if he wants to see real pain he should go down to Remaining Men Together and see the men with testicular cancer. When the main character does go down to the meeting, he finds that he's able to let go and just cry, and the crying helps him to sleep better. So, he starts going to many different meetings. Eventually, while he's out on a business trip, his apartment blows up and forces him to move in with a guy he had just met, Tyler Durden. Before they headed to Tyler's apartment, they decided to beat each other up because neither other them had ever been in a fight and didn't "want to die without any scars". Eventually their little bar fight turned into a group of men that fought just to feel like something mattered. This group of men called what they were doing Fight Club. Eventually this fight club turned into a movement of destruction that was called Project Mayhem. This lead to the infamous scene where Tyler and the main character are sitting in an abandoned building waiting to watch many others blow up. The main character is done having to deal with Tyler, so he shoots himself in the jaw.
The author's writing style is very unique and interesting to read. He writes in a confusing way that eventually begins to make sense only when he gives you enough information and only when he wants it to make sense. He uses a lot of literary techniques like similes, metaphors, hyperboles, and others. It's really interesting when he writes small, incomplete sentences to enforce his point. They're really powerful and interesting to read, they really keep your attention and make the storyline flow more.
This book was also made into a very well-selling movie by the same name. Most people have seen it, and can even quote it. The movie follows the storyline perfectly, and often times directly quotes the book. It seems like it would be a hard book to turn into a movie because of all the fighting and the destruction caused by Project Mayhem, but it was executed perfectly. The characters were perfectly cast, they're exactly what you imagine as you are reading the novel, with the exception of Robert Paulson (Big Bob), who was played by Meatloaf. In the novel, he's described with the same physical attributes, but he's described as having blonde hair. Meatloaf, however, has pretty dark hair.
All in all, this is one of my favorite books, and one of my favorite movies. I would give it an A++ because it is just so great. It is very well written and has so much imagery in it. I could perfectly imagine everything that the author, Chuck Palahniuk, was describing. When you see it in the movie, too, it is exactly what he described and you imagined. It is a great read and I would recommend it to anyone.