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, there. They split up the support groups half and half. For his job, he flies out to car accidents and decides whether or not to initiate recalls. On a plane flight back home he meets Tyler Durden, a soap salesman. When he get home he finds him apartment surrounded my policemen because it had been blown up. 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. One night they are outside of a bar and Tyler asks him to hit him as hard as he can, because Tyler doesn't want to die with out ever being in a fight. They start fighting and a group of people surround them. Other people want to fight too. So they start a fight club in the basement of a bar. 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. A janitor sweeps floors and cleans toilets for a living but for 10 minutes he is a God to the crowd surrounding him. When the fight is over nothing is solved but nothing matters. They make a list of strict rules to fight...