Chuck Palahniuk books? Do you enjoy them?

[Carl Winslow]

Does anyone here read Chuck Palahniuk? Faggots mostly write the best books. I saw the Fight club thread and I remember reading some of his shit through out the years.

The thing with his books, from what I remember is that they are a blender of ideas mixed into a book. Some good, some bad. Lullaby really stands out, I read it like 6 years ago and remember most of it. The end was really fucked up. I read Snuff while I was in Iraq, It's a quick read couldn't tell you the details to this day.

Survivor seemed cool, but it was during my pill popping days, so I might have to reread it.

 

[Mick_Mickerson]

From what I can tell, no one "enjoys" anything here.

I "enjoyed" Fight Club and a few of his short stories, but I was in high school at the time. I'd probably hate them now.

 

[wbgreen]

I liked Invisible Monsters. He wrote it before Fight Club but couldn't get it published until the movie's success. A model gets her jaw blown off by a shotgun. If he was still in the closet, it's funny because the book shit on closet queens.

 

[PogromStallone]

I read Snuff a long time ago but can't really remember anything about it.

"Cassie Wright, pornography priestess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication on camera, with six hundred men. Snuff unfolds through the perspectives of Mr. 600, Mr. 72, Mr. 137, and Wright's personal assistant, Sheila. With his satirical narrative and thorough research, Chuck Palahniuk reveals through these four characters the little-known facts and histories of not only pornography and sexual deviance, but also acting and life in and out of the spotlight, and throughout the novel shows the rarely acknowledged presence of pornography in modern America."

 

[Naked_Militiaman]

Mick took the words right outta my mouth. These books were fun when I was in 9th grade. An Ozzy obsession in middle age is less embarrassing.

 

[not that Jack Horner]

i really like his first few books, ive read most of his stuff actually

but by the third or fourth you realize he is very formulaic

i really dug “rant” for how batshit it was as a story. it was supposed to have a sequel, but the faggots been writing fight club comics instead

 

[Rutherford_b_Blaze]

I loved them when I was a teenager. Not saying that to be a dick-I really did. Recently re read Fight Club and it was meh. Bret Easton Ellis, whom I also loved as a teenager, holds up better

 

[Rutherford_b_Blaze]

I liked Invisible Monsters. He wrote it before Fight Club but couldn't get it published until the movie's success. A model gets her jaw blown off by a shotgun. If he was still in the closet, it's funny because the book shit on closet queens.

He was in the closet until he thought a reporter was going to out him after he told her off the record. So he went on his website and made a post where he came out of the closet and also disclosed personal information about the reporter's family that she had told him. (Not sure what this tidbit is). He never planned to come out lol.

 

[guest]

I read Choke but gave up part way through. A lot of it just seemed like someone trying to be edgy.

 

[StillHilarious_mybb]

no but the opester was a fan so they must be pretty good

 

[FatPatsBaps]

Like everyone in this thread, I loved his books when I was a teenager. Not so much now that I'm approaching middle age.

 

[Rutherford_b_Blaze]

Like everyone in this thread, I loved his books when I was a teenager. Not so much now that I'm approaching middle age.

Which is funny because they were written by a middle aged man. I don't think he even started writing until his 30s

 

[RedGlareRecipient]

hot take: they’re fine. Not the best shit I ever read but not the worst. His structure is interesting if formulaic, I like his “choruses” system because I have the emotional maturity of a teenaged homosexual.

 

[Punished Dan Mullen]

Gaysia

 

[NoBacon]

One of the few cases that the movie is better than the book imo

 

[DeadWithoutMyDavid]

There really aren't a lot of options for male readers. 90% of fiction books are hokey trash written for women.