Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk, 1996
An insomniac office worker meets a soap salesman who turns his numbness into a basement fight club, then into a movement he can't control.
Chuck Palahniuk
Palahniuk wrote Fight Club while working as a diesel mechanic; it began as a short story and was published in 1996, three years before the film.
Feels like longing, memory and unease.
The night has no floor. There is only the sound of your own thoughts.
I come dragging in with every muscle bruised inside and out, but my heart’s still racing and my thoughts are a tornado in my head. This is insomnia. All night, your thoughts are on the air.All night long, you’re thinking: Am I asleep? Have I slept? Books by Chuck Palahniuk
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