Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

     I recently read the book "Fight Club" by Chuck Palahniuk. It is about a man who meets a movie projectionist named Tyler Durden, who helps him overcome insomnia and makes him much more relaxed by creating fight club, a way to let out pent up aggression through consensual violence. But things start to go wrong when Tyler pushes farther and farther into the domain of chaos and death and starts a group called Project Mayhem, where different groups commit crimes against everyone.
     This book is almost entirely nihilistic, especially around the middle, where many people are willing to die for Mr. Durden because they believe that they are not special and not individuals. Another philosophy that I am reminded of in this book is communitarianism, but only in the sense that there is no individual, there is only the whole. This seems like nihilistic communitarianism, in a way.
     The main character, who is not named in the book, is very seemingly depressed and maybe a little bit insane. From the beginning of the book, he spends all of his free time at support groups for different diseases, such as testicular cancer and brain parasites, because seeing those people so devoid of life and full of sorrow helps him to sleep. It may also be that he cries at these support groups during the time where people hug, and this helps him to let out his emotions in a safe place where no one can judge him.
     Marla Singer, another person who goes to support groups for diseases to feel better, is very rude throughout the story to the protagonist. But by the end of the story, Marla loves the main character. The relationship between the two evolves a lot throughout the story, but only from Marla's point of view. The main character, it seems, has no feelings for Marla other than possibly slight acquaintance, but not much, because from the beginning the protagonist just generally does not like Marla.