Fight Club
The book starts out introducing the main character in which you never learn his real name. He is at a doctor's office complaining of insomnia but the doctor won't prescribe him any medication. He complains he is in pain and the doctor tells him to go drop by First Eucharist's Church on Tuesday nights to see the support group for men with testicular cancer if he wants to see real pain. He doesn't know why but he does go to this group and during one on one time with another patient he just lets go and cries. That night he can finally sleep. So he starts going to these support groups every night to testicular cancer, brain parasite, alcoholics anonymous, one for every night. This works out until he sees Marla Singer going to all the same support groups. He can't cry when he sees Marla, another faker, ther . . .
They start fighting and a group of people surround them. They make a list of strict rules to fight club. They split up the support groups half and half. When the fight is over nothing is solved but nothing matters. They all lead up to the biggest assignment where they put vans full of explosives in all of the major credit card company building, however the buildings have no people in them. The member get assignment that only Tyler and the person getting it know but this time they are more dangerous. So they start a fight club in the basement of a bar. For some reason he call Tyler and he stays at Tyler's house which is an old run down hole with no one living within a 1/2 mile in every direction. There goal is rid everyone of their debt and have everyone start back at zero again, economic equilibrium. On a plane flight back home he meets Tyler Durden, a soap salesman. Their philosophy is when people fight the volume of everything else in life get turned down, suddenly stress in relieved and only the important things in life matter. When he get home he finds him apartment surrounded my policemen because it had been blown up. For his job, he flies out to car accidents and decides whether or not to initiate recalls. I'm going to end here because I don’t want to give away the ending.
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