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09-30-2008, 10:34 AM
|  | gotoffwivkeily | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: the harbour
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| | | Am I reading Survivor wrong??
By Chuck Palahniuk.
The chapters are supposed to be read backwards?? But starting from chapter1 at the beginning of the book or right at the end????  |
09-30-2008, 10:42 AM
|  | bedroom revolutionary | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: under neon loneliness
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| | | The whole thing is him telling his life story to a black box before the plane crashes, ergo the chapters "count down" to the end.
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09-30-2008, 10:59 AM
| | gotoffwivkeily | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: the harbour
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| | | So I should start at the back and read it to the front? |
09-30-2008, 11:00 AM
| | bedroom revolutionary | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: under neon loneliness
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| | | No. Read it like a regular book.
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09-30-2008, 02:53 PM
|  | heroin | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: new zealand
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| | | i fucking love that book.
but i'm finding rant hard to read.
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09-30-2008, 03:41 PM
|  | thrillho | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Positively 4th Street
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| | | Survivor is one of the last books I read by him, and is very much the reason I didn't pick up anything else. His storylines are so repetitive, no? I know this is not the topic at hand, but really?
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09-30-2008, 05:29 PM
| | gotoffwivkeily | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: the harbour
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| | | Either I've lost the ability to read or have become retarded.
Seriously, how am I supposed to read this like a normal book? It starts at the END of chapter one then you get to the START of chapter one then the next page is the END of chapter 2 and so on...
I think I bought a faulty book. |
09-30-2008, 05:54 PM
| | thrillho | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Positively 4th Street
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| | It's just chuck being SHOCKING AND DIFFERENT. The page numbers have no actual purpose other than to utilize another way of telling the story...you know that it is a "count down" to something.
I thought it was neat. But I still got tired of his style.
Just ignore it and keep reading the negativity 
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09-30-2008, 06:11 PM
|  | slow refrain | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: austin.
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| | | sort of off-topic, but if i wanted to read just one of his books, which one should it be?
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09-30-2008, 06:16 PM
|  | fancy like a princess | | Join Date: Apr 2006
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| | | i liked survivor, it'd be a good one to go with. either that or lullaby, it's neat too. though because of his writing style, alot of his books are very samey and you could read any of them, theyre all much of a much |
09-30-2008, 06:24 PM
| | thrillho | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Positively 4th Street
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| | | Choke's "twist" is STUPID. But it's an alright story I suppose?
Lullaby is good, Invisible Monsters was the first book I read by him, so naturally his style was fresh to me then, and could explain why it's my favourite. A lot of people don't like it. Personally it has the best twist. And yes, every book has its twists. And glorified antagonists.
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09-30-2008, 06:53 PM
| | bedroom revolutionary | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: under neon loneliness
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| | Quote:
Originally Posted by sokkar sort of off-topic, but if i wanted to read just one of his books, which one should it be? | Invisible Monsters.
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09-30-2008, 06:57 PM
| | gotoffwivkeily | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: the harbour
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| | Quote:
Originally Posted by VenusDeMilo It's just chuck being SHOCKING AND DIFFERENT. The page numbers have no actual purpose other than to utilize another way of telling the story...you know that it is a "count down" to something.
I thought it was neat. But I still got tired of his style.
Just ignore it and keep reading the negativity | Thanks. So I begin the book at the back which is chapter 46 or something and work my way to chapter 1?? |
09-30-2008, 07:00 PM
| | thrillho | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Positively 4th Street
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| | | Read it like a normal book, ignoring the page numbers.
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10-02-2008, 11:43 PM
|  | just like you. | | Join Date: Apr 2008
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| | | I loved invisible monsters and survivor. haunted was pleasant. choke was :/ and the rest gawhz.
the newest? ugh.
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10-09-2008, 11:08 PM
| | Registered Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006
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| | Quote:
Originally Posted by Amity Invisible Monsters. | I agree. That was the first I read, and it's still my favorite. "Diary" is also very interesting. |
10-10-2008, 12:41 AM
|  | mendacious | | Join Date: Sep 2007
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| | Quote:
Originally Posted by walterboy By Chuck Palahniuk.
The chapters are supposed to be read backwards?? But starting from chapter1 at the beginning of the book or right at the end???? | no. it was written wrong.
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