I want to preface my comment by saying that chuck palinuik's fight club is certainly an exception.

Chuck Palinuik works on fucking shock factor alone. He can't come up with a decent story line so he just crams as much gruesome shit into his novels as he possibly can. And this is not some uneducated statement. I gave him more than a chance by suffering through three more of his novels after reading (and enjoying fight club.) What ever talent he had in him was used up after his first novel. He's just writing to collect a paycheck now.

There are too many great books out there to waste time on that hack. And I mean HACK! I don't use that word lightly.