Review: Fight Club

Author: Chuck Palaniuk

Brilliant, a description of masculinity in crisis. “What you see in fight club is a generation of men raised by women” (p – 41). He captures the spirit of disaffected men searching for deeper meaning. This could read as a why and how-to guide to rebel against consumerist society. Men look for meaning in a society that easily and efficiently provides for their needs. Directionless young men are a potential danger. A man with nothing to lose, more so.

He concludes with maturity. “We are not special; we are not crap or trash either. We just are. We just are, and what happens, happens” p – 159. I would suggest young men read this in tandem with Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning.

On the whole, I found it profound and loved it.