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06-29-2008, 07:36 PM
|  | queen of hate. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Beverly Hills, CA
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| | | Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk is the worst fucking book ever.
Shite. Pure shite. |
06-29-2008, 07:40 PM
|  | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westport, New Zealand
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Originally Posted by Mecklenburg-Strelitz  Shite. Pure shite. | I haven't read. I probably never will. I'm very tempted to believe you anyway.
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06-29-2008, 08:50 PM
|  | KOOKOOBANANAS™ | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: west.
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| | It's my favorite book I've read by him so far. To each their own  . |
06-29-2008, 10:10 PM
|  | No smoke without fire. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Melbourne
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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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06-30-2008, 01:25 AM
|  | heroin | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: new zealand
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| | | omg that's one of my favourite books ever.
it changed my life. twice.
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06-30-2008, 01:01 PM
|  | old gregg? | | Join Date: Oct 2007
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| | | haha ha |
06-30-2008, 01:13 PM
|  | Registered Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
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| | | I've never been impressed by him, he isn't a very good writer and his stories seem very alike. |
06-30-2008, 03:00 PM
|  | Pretentious Bore | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: South London
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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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07-01-2008, 12:39 AM
|  | EXTERMINATE. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: aotearoa
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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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07-01-2008, 09:44 AM
|  | mendacious | | Join Date: Sep 2007
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Originally Posted by LibbyJ 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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07-01-2008, 01:07 PM
|  | no lust in this coma | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Edinburgh
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Originally Posted by odessa 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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07-01-2008, 07:47 PM
| | queen of hate. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Beverly Hills, CA
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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. |
07-01-2008, 09:46 PM
|  | just like you. | | Join Date: Apr 2008
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Originally Posted by hex object It's my favorite book I've read by him so far. To each their own . | ditto!
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07-01-2008, 09:47 PM
| | just like you. | | Join Date: Apr 2008
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Originally Posted by petals 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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07-02-2008, 12:56 AM
|  | *mocks with monkeypants* | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: fosters home for imaginary friends
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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. |
07-03-2008, 12:22 AM
|  | irony maiden | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: denny's.
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Originally Posted by vulgaris 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. |
07-03-2008, 12:47 AM
| | mendacious | | Join Date: Sep 2007
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| | | i liked choke. the rest disappointed me
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07-03-2008, 12:57 AM
| | irony maiden | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: denny's.
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Originally Posted by vulgaris 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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07-03-2008, 02:05 AM
| | EXTERMINATE. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: aotearoa
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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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07-03-2008, 02:53 AM
| | heroin | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: new zealand
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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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