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01-29-2008, 07:52 PM
| | atrocity exhibitionist. | | Join Date: Jan 2008
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| | | what is your favorite book by Chuck Palahniuk?
I just started reading Diary yesterday and I have a copy of Invisible Monsters that I haven't read yet. Choke is being made into a movie..
What do you like? |
01-29-2008, 08:40 PM
|  | bedroom revolutionary | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: under neon loneliness
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| | | It's hard to choose, really. I think my vote would go for Invisible Monsters or Survivor.
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01-29-2008, 10:18 PM
|  | No smoke without fire. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Melbourne
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| | | Invisible Monsters of all his I have read.....my mouth was hanging open in shock the last few chapters! Please don't skip ahead and spoil it for yourself.
I haven't read Fight Club (seen the film obviously)...is that his "masterpiece" do you think?
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01-29-2008, 10:24 PM
| | Registered Member | | Join Date: May 2006
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| | | Fight Club, award for most fucked up goes to Haunted. |
01-29-2008, 10:34 PM
|  | KOOKOOBANANAS™ | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: west.
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| | | I liked Invisible Monsters the best but Haunted is a close second. I didn't really like Fight Club as much has I had imagined I would, probably because I had seen the movie before reading the book. |
01-29-2008, 11:01 PM
|  | My crown is too high | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: On the floor, counting flowers on the wall.
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| | | I've read Fight Club, Diary and Inviable Monsters, so far..Fight Club |
01-29-2008, 11:19 PM
|  | self-made bedroom ninja | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: oh-hi-ih-ih-oo
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| | | invisible monsters
then choke and fight club are both close seconds VERY close
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01-30-2008, 12:42 AM
|  | Black eyed angel. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Pennsylvania
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| | | I've read almost everything by him. I'd have to say Invisible Monsters. The others are good books. His style is disturbingly engrossing, but Invisible Monsters really had the most impact with me. |
01-30-2008, 01:58 PM
|  | 2,000 light yrs from home | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: 2,000 light years from home
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| | | invisible monsters.
i think he's gone off the boil a bit recently. rant was just about ok, but haunted was absolute shite. |
01-31-2008, 02:30 AM
|  | e.c=vamplove | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: sydney
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| | | survivor, by far. next in line would be diary or lullaby.
and i agree that haunted pretty much sucked, but i'm looking forward to seeing the choke film.
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01-31-2008, 02:52 AM
| | SUGAR COATED SOUR | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: AUSTRALIA
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| | | lullaby, choke and, of course, fight club |
01-31-2008, 04:26 AM
|  | irony maiden | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: denny's.
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| | | i actually think he's quite shit and repetitive. but back when i didn't, my favourites were Haunted, Diary and Fight Club. those were the first three of his that i read, after that i just found that he constantly repeated himself. |
01-31-2008, 05:37 PM
|  | heroin | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: new zealand
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| | | invisible monsters. changed my life. |
01-31-2008, 06:14 PM
|  | faghag | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: it varies.
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| | Quote:
Originally Posted by odessa  invisible monsters. changed my life. | im reading it right now.. its so good. very depressing, but thats what he does best.
id have to say my favorite book by chuck palahniuk is diary. i dont know what it was abut it,i just loved it.
did i mention im trying to read every single book he's ever written? hands down palahniuk has gotta be one of my favorite authors.
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01-31-2008, 07:06 PM
|  | EXTERMINATE. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: aotearoa
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| | | invisible monsters, definitely.
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01-31-2008, 07:45 PM
|  | My lip gloss be poppin' | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Edinburgh
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| | | Invisible Monsters, Lullaby, Survivor...
His mind is so warped. I loved it when he outed himself by mistake though. Megalolz. |
01-31-2008, 11:40 PM
|  | ***PURR*** | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Calgary, AB Canada
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| | | I love them all...the worst one for making me almost vomit is Haunted.
Lullaby, Choke, Survivor, Fight Club and Invisble Monsters are delish! |
02-02-2008, 05:45 AM
|  | i'm glad yr on my side | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Australia
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| | | Invisible Monsters for sure. I'm yet to read all of them though. |
02-02-2008, 06:11 AM
|  | Still ill.... | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: A hell of my own making
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| | | I have only read Choke,but after reading this thread it looks like i`ll be reading Invisible Monsters next. |
02-05-2008, 11:12 PM
|  | *mocks with monkeypants* | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: fosters home for imaginary friends
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| | | I've read: Invisible Monsters, Fight Club, Diary and Haunted.
Invisible Monsters is hands down my favourite.
Diary kinda confused me and I didn't like the ending (although I can't say how I'd have ended it myself) same with Haunted. Haunted I didn't like as a whole work but the poems are all really good and half of the short stories are beyond amazing, the other half not really that great. The 3rd person narrative parts were not as good I thought.
Fight Club I really enjoyed but I think it worked better as a film than a book, even though the book came first. The parts with Marla Singer though that are only in the novel are so good. The whole phone call thing, I mean the really freaky calls coming from like dead souls or something calling her over to their side was so fascinating and haunting...oh shit, I'm scaring myself now. The ending of the film is my favourite ending of any film. (The ending of the movie Trainspotting is probably a close second.) But the way that the book Fight Club ended made me really anxious and claustrophobic.
Yeah, Invisible Monsters was flawless in my opinion.
I want to read Choke, Lullaby, Survivor...fuck it, I want to read all of his works. Even though they make my stomach hurt because I start questioning everything around me and society and my true self and my friends' real characters and such so much that I get really panicky and stressed. It's probably not healthy for me to read Chuck Palahniuk actually.  | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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