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06-08-2006, 05:10 PM
|  | Modern Culture | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Jingle Town
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| | | I've only read Invisable Monsters and I really liked it. The book just left me going "wow" alot. |
06-13-2006, 12:24 PM
|  | Negative squire! | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Southampton
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Originally Posted by imnotdrugs
Invisible Monsters is by FAR the best, and it was the first book he wrote
i was mad becuase it was the first book of his i read so it kind of ruined the rest for me
| That's what happened to me as well  |
06-13-2006, 01:15 PM
|  | love-joy diver. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: tombland
Posts: 871
| | | I've read fight club, lullaby, invisible monsters and survivor, but my favourite is invisible monsters. |
06-18-2006, 02:05 PM
| | Negative squire! | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Southampton
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Originally Posted by bikinikills I've read fight club, lullaby, invisible monsters and survivor, but my favourite is invisible monsters. | These are the same one's i've read  Invisible monsters was by FAR the best. |
06-23-2006, 01:04 PM
|  | pussy liquor | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: house of 1000 corpses
Posts: 1,558
| | | I really want to get into his work this summer.
I don't think I wanna read fight club because I am so hooked on the film that if the book were significantly different (especially around the ending) than I would maybe feel upset.
But I want to read invisible monsters and diary. |
06-23-2006, 01:14 PM
|  | XXX | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Cardiff. South Wales.
Posts: 956
| | | My bf owns all the books and lives with me.
He has read them all and keeps going on & on about me reading them.
I might give one a try tonight, everytime I've tried to get into one, it just doesn't work.
I am not that much of a fan of his writing style.
I tried reading Lullaby, I got about a quarter of a way though it and I had to stop, not only did it confuse me, but it just wasn't gripping. |
06-23-2006, 01:24 PM
| | love-joy diver. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: tombland
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Originally Posted by OhMyDear These are the same one's i've read Invisible monsters was by FAR the best. | oh yes, i really love that book! |
07-14-2006, 07:00 PM
|  | WWJCtrlZ? | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: NC
Posts: 76
| | | Survivor and invisible monsters are probably my favorites. I've read the rest and they're just as worthy - he totally knows how to spin a story. I liked Stranger than Fiction as well, which is, I guess, collected articles and interviews he's written. |
07-15-2006, 05:05 AM
|  | glance, don't stare | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: vancouver area rug
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Originally Posted by PrincessTrae
I don't think I wanna read fight club because I am so hooked on the film that if the book were significantly different (especially around the ending) than I would maybe feel upset.
| ive read it twice. the first time it took me a day. the ending is slightly different, but it doesnt ruin the movie. i tried to form my own visual idea of the characters, but it was hard because i had seen the movie. |
07-16-2006, 10:14 PM
|  | it's not too beautiful | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: syd.
Posts: 303
| | | i've read a few of his books & while i enjoyed them i don't think he's that fantastic of a writer. he's very formulaic, as others have said, & while his stories are usually based on interesting premises they are just so repetitive.
that being said, i do plan to check out invisible monsters & survivor. the former because of the praise it is getting in this thread & the latter because my boyfriend has just finished it and keeps telling me to read it. |
07-17-2006, 05:49 AM
| | Negative squire! | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Southampton
Posts: 2,492
| | | I just finished reading haunted, it's a good one, i think it comes as a close second to invisible monsters.
I love his writing style, but after reading one of his books i can't read another for a while because sometimes it can get a bit too samey. |
07-21-2006, 10:08 PM
|  | Registered Member | | Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 2
| | | Chuck P. is a genius. Fight Club contains multiple references to Eastern religion that maybe are too sublte for some to even recognize. He is so effing smart, it kills me. I don't know how he comes up w/half of the shit he writes down. Please don't label him "FORMULAIC" or "REPETITIVE." |
07-23-2006, 03:15 PM
|  | we all fall down | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: leeds, uk
Posts: 255
| | | i loved choke. was really easy and fun to read. love his style. |
07-24-2006, 12:26 AM
|  | Yes | | Join Date: Apr 2006
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Originally Posted by Mother Greer how do you know guts is a true story?! arhhhhhhhhhhhh | It cant be... well at least the sister being pregnate by the boy. By the time she got into the water after he finished his business, the sperm would be all dead, the wouldnt be alive in chlorine for that long. |
07-24-2006, 01:13 AM
|  | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westport, New Zealand
Posts: 18,681
| | | One of my little year 9 students (grade 8 in the US, roughly) thinks she's sooo alternative because she's reading Palahniuk as opposed to Sweet Valley High or whatever. But she doesn't seem to be making much progress on Fight Club, which is sad. She just carries it around like a badge and talks about the film. She'll be a real poseur by the time she's 16. |
07-24-2006, 01:18 AM
|  | self-made bedroom ninja | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: oh-hi-ih-ih-oo
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Originally Posted by bort One of my little year 9 students (grade 8 in the US, roughly) thinks she's sooo alternative because she's reading Palahniuk as opposed to Sweet Valley High or whatever. But she doesn't seem to be making much progress on Fight Club, which is sad. She just carries it around like a badge and talks about the film. She'll be a real poseur by the time she's 16. | haha that is so funny
i hate kids like that
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07-24-2006, 02:52 AM
| | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westport, New Zealand
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Originally Posted by imnotdrugs haha that is so funny
i hate kids like that | I'm trying to encourage her, reading "challenging" works is all well and good, but she just doesn't seem to be getting through the bloody thing. |
01-03-2007, 08:34 PM
|  | gotoffwivkeily | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: the harbour
Posts: 6,066
| | | I've just started reading Haunted. Its discustingly graphic (well guts is) but I love it. |
01-03-2007, 08:36 PM
|  | the war within | | Join Date: Apr 2006
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Originally Posted by pixiepop i loved choke. was really easy and fun to read. love his style. | i agree. its one of the best books ive read in a long while.
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01-03-2007, 08:52 PM
|  | fancy like a princess | | Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 1,690
| | i saw him give a reading last year, he's a great storyteller in person as well as on paper
my favourite of his fictions is definately survivor - i dont like the 'horror' avenue he's going down so much - haunted and diary sort of bored me, but i suppose there's only so much you can do with the whole critique of modern life and consumerism schtick he has covered so well
you should have a look at stranger than fiction or fugitives and refugees if you want to try some of his non fiction - and i would also recommend the contortionist's handbook by craig clevenger which comes with high praise from mr p - i think it's a lot better and more interesting than anything he's done, it's super
ps http://www.amazon.com/Rant-Oral-Biog...e=UTF8&s=books
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