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Old 06-29-2008, 07:36 PM
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Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk is the worst fucking book ever.

Shite. Pure shite.
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Old 06-29-2008, 07:40 PM
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Shite. Pure shite.
I haven't read. I probably never will. I'm very tempted to believe you anyway.
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It's my favorite book I've read by him so far. To each their own .
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Old 06-29-2008, 10:10 PM
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I loved it. Chuck is not for everyone tho. His style is complex and graphic to the point where i felt a bit sick in some parts of this book, but that is also a sign of effective communication IMO.
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omg that's one of my favourite books ever.
it changed my life. twice.
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I've never been impressed by him, he isn't a very good writer and his stories seem very alike.
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I thought it was pretty good, not his best, but certainly not the worst thing ever written. Thats a tad extreme.
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this book may have triggered (& i think, probably did) a three day anxiety binge during which i was convinced i'd lost my marbles forever. i mean, that requires a lot of talent. surely? although maybe i wasn't that on the rails to begin with. x
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I loved it. Chuck is not for everyone tho. His style is complex and graphic to the point where i felt a bit sick in some parts of this book, but that is also a sign of effective communication IMO.
comp;lex and graphic?

try formulaic and grating.
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omg that's one of my favourite books ever.
it changed my life. twice.
Did it change it and then change it back?

I've never read it, but Diary by CP is one of the... least good books I think I've ever read, so I can quite believe that this isn't great. Or at least that I wouldn't think it was great.
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I just don't get why people like his shit. It boggles the mind. Someone steal that goddamn computer from his house please.
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It's my favorite book I've read by him so far. To each their own .
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this book may have triggered (& i think, probably did) a three day anxiety binge during which i was convinced i'd lost my marbles forever. i mean, that requires a lot of talent. surely? although maybe i wasn't that on the rails to begin with. x

I don't know why or what it is, but any time I read his books I get extremely anxious.
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Invisible Monsters is my favourite book by him. I have read Diary, Haunted, Fight Club and Snuff as well. Diary really REALLY frustrated me. I don't feel like I gained anything from reading it, Fight Club the film made a much better impression with me and I love it, I've seen it at LEAST 5 or 6 times (I did enjoy the book though, I must read it again and focus more), Haunted had some really good short stories in it I just think lots of it could have been cut out and I don't understand the OVERALL point of it all. Maybe I'm just dumb though

Snuff is second next to Invisible Monsters. Those are two of my absolute favourite books. I'm obsessed with porno though (not just watching it, that industry in general) so that's a large part of the appeal with Snuff.

EDIT: Could you explain why you didn't like Invisible Monsters? I'm curious to hear your opinion.
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comp;lex and graphic?

try formulaic and grating.
ugh exactly.

well i am not proud to say that i have read all of chuck's books. except the latest one. i was well over him by the time that one came out.

as for invisible monsters, it was one of the last ones i read so i can't say i loved it because i was so familiar with his repetitive formula.
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i liked choke. the rest disappointed me
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i liked choke. the rest disappointed me
i truly believe it depends on the order in which you read them. did you read choke first? i read fight club first, then haunted, then diary. and that's the order in which i like them. the rest failed.

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i liked choke & invisible monsters. a lot.

i also read lullaby & fight club, & didn't enjoy them as much.

fight club was the first, followed in order by invisible monsters, lullaby & choke.

so i guess the order didn't matter so much to me, but i really understand what you are saying, chesh.
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the first i read was survivor - which was amazing.
i've read all the others, but nothing has affected me as much as invisible monsters.
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