"If you haven't noticed already, all of my books are about a single person looking for a way to connect with other people." This quote is from Chuck Palahniuk's non-fiction story book Stranger Than Fiction. This quote sums up the exact nature of the protagonist in the two novels I chose to read, Fight Club and Choke, both written by Chuck Palahniuk. By using this concept, Palahniuk has the ability to make the reader feel like a character who is far below what is considered an ideal citizen. He has the ability to introduce a scum character into the hearts of anyone who decides to open one of his books. This is not the only similarity between the novels Palahniuk wrote, including the two I read. Palahniuk uses various recurring themes, settings, and personalities in Fight Club and Choke. It is these recurring ideas and his use of satirical, often bizarre humor that have marked Palahniuk as a shock writer, while also giving him a huge cult following. Palahniuk's use of unique writing styles, unusual characters, and abnormal settings is what makes Fight Club and Choke so similar and makes 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 a first-person point of view, with Fight Club being told through the eyes of the character known only as the narrator, and Choke being told through the eyes of Victor Mancini. The two 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 father. To show that these characters are ordinary men, Palahniuk uses what he calls a "minimalist approach" to his writing. This means that he uses limited vocabulary as well as short sentences to make it seem like an average man is telling a story. One of the greatest contributions to the similarities between the way Chuck Palahniuk writes his novels is the extensive research he does before writing. In both novels, the protagonists are regulars at support group meetings. Before