"If you haven't already noticed, all of my books are about a lonely person looking for a way to connect with other people." This quote is from Chuck Palahniuk's book of non-fiction short stories entitled Stranger Than Fiction. This quote sums up the exact nature of the protagonist of both novels I chose to read, Fight Club and Choke, both written by Chuck Palahniuk. Using this concept, Palahniuk has the ability to make the reader feel for a character who is much less than what is seen as an ideal citizen. He has the ability to bring a scum of the earth character into the heart of anyone who decides to open one of his books. This is not the only similarity between the novels written by Palahniuk, especially the two I have read. Palahniuk uses various recurring themes, settings, and character personalities in both Fight Club and Choke. It is these recurring ideas and his use of satirical, often bizarre humor that have branded Palahniuk as a shock writer, as well as giving him a huge cult following. Palahniuk's use of unique writing styles, unusual characters, and anomalous settings are what makes Fight Club and Choke so similar and make Chuck Palahniuk such a fun writer. Chuck Palahniuk is extremely well known for his distinct writing style. The styles he uses in Fight Club and Choke are almost identical. Both novels are written from the first-person point of view, Fight Club is told through the eyes of the character known only as the narrator, and Choke is told through the eyes of Victor Mancini. Both protagonists have particularly similar traits and qualities. They are both middle-aged men who work boring jobs they hate and find themselves becoming an insignificant part of society. Both characters attend support group meetings to help them deal with their individual problems and were also raised by their mothers, both not knowing their fathers. To demonstrate that these characters are ordinary men, Palahniuk uses what he calls a “minimalist approach” to his writing. This means he uses limited vocabulary along with short sentences to give the impression that an average guy is telling a story. One of the biggest contributors to the similarities in how Chuck Palahniuk writes his novels is the extensive research he does before writing. In both novels, the protagonists regularly attend support group meetings. Before