His life takes a sudden turn when he first meets Marla Singer at a testicular cancer support group he goes to (despite having no cancer) and a bigger turn again happens when he meets Tyler. Our nameless narrator functions as a our lens into the life of the disassociated middle class guy who is so detached from reality that everything to him is ‘a copy of a copy of a copy’. Leading them all is Tyler Durden, waiter, projectionist and anarchist who is determined to fix the modern world whether we want it or not. There are rules, no shirts, no shoes and one fight at a time.
Men from all walks of life, office clerks to janitors, meet once a week and fight each other until they are bloody. As usual.Įvery week in basements and car parks, young men are fighting each other. The book we read was ‘Fight Club’ (in case that wasn’t obvious yet) and here I am to talk books. If I knew how this would all turn out,I’d be more than happy to be dead and in Heaven right now.’ĭuring the first 2 weeks of August I took part in a group read titled The First Rule of August hosted by Zukythebookbum over on Instagram. ‘ “This is our world,now, our world” Tyler says, “and those ancient people are dead.”
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