Before I read my novel, Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, I thought it would be explicit and more intense than many of the novels I have read but it has greatly exceeded my expectations. I believe others are feel this about there novels.
This is a excerpt from the Fight Club to give you a taste.
"Last week, I tapped a guy and he and I got on the list for a fight. This guy must've had a bad week, got both my arms behind my head in a full nelson and rammed my face into the concrete floor until my teeth bit open the inside of my cheek and my eye was swollen shut and was bleeding, and after I said, stop, I could look down and there was a print of half my face in blood on the floor.
Tyler stood next to me, both of us looking down at the big O of my mouth with blood all around it and the little slit of my eye staring up at us from the floor, and Tyler says, "Cool.""
I think this passage is an accurate example of how the book is. There are many scenes that are explained in great detail like the one you just showed. The words paint a gruesome image in my mind as I am reading. For example,"The hole in my cheek, the blue-black swelling around my eyes, and the swollen red scar of Tyler's kiss on the back of my hand, a copy of a copy of a copy." These scars represent masculinity to them. Scars are there to prove you can take a punch, and therefore are masculine according to society.
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