Chuck Palahniuk

[Benjininja]

Ever read?

I read Choke and it blew my mind

For those who are unfamiliar he wrote Fight Club, which was of coarse made into the awesome movie.

[FanGirl]

Actually, there are quite a few of us who've read him. Personally, I thought Choke was pretty weak compared to his other stuff.

My ranking would be:

Survivor
Diary
Haunted
Lullaby
Invisible Monsters
Choke
Fight Club

Not that one book is really better than another. I'd put all of them on the same level except Choke and Fight Club. Those two are just a little under par.

On a side note, I am forever warped from reading Haunted specifically one passage in there. I thought it might just be me being easily disturbed, but then I looked online and saw that at book readings people actually fainted when he read that specific part.

I still need to read "Stranger Than Fiction" and a "Walk Through Portland."

[boobookittyfuk2007]

I just watched that movie "Stranger than fiction" I thought it was a pretty good movie but, I wouldnt have paid to see it in the theater. I got the dvd last night. I never read the book though I will have to pick it up.

[FanGirl]

It's not the same at all. Chuck's book is non-fic stories. I guess the full title is "Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories." I totally forgot there was a movie with the similar name.

[Benjininja]

I've heard Haunted is rather disturbing

[FanGirl]

It is by far his most disturbing that's for sure. It's a interesting book though. A bunch of strangers agree to go on a writer's retreat for 3 months where they have no contact with the world. They only go by their nicknames and no one knows anything about anyone else. Things go horribly, horribly wrong, of course. He breaks up that main story with little short stories of each character's backstory. The flashback stories can stand by themselves and the main story can stand by itself, but they totally mesh well together.

"Guts" is the short story that made everyone faint and the one that is forever burned in my brain. In the immortal words of Eric Cartman "It has warped my fragilie little mind."

[boobookittyfuk2007]

It's not the same at all. Chuck's book is non-fic stories. I guess the full title is "Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories." I totally forgot there was a movie with the similar name.
Thanks for clearing that up it could have been a very disturbing read had I went and gotten the book.

[BizarroPunisher]

It's not the same at all. Chuck's book is non-fic stories. I guess the full title is "Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories." I totally forgot there was a movie with the similar name.
I'm glad Stranger Than Fiction wasn't based on one of his books. I saw it last night and didn't really care for it. It was so damn slow during the entire flick. Anyway, I've only read Fight Club, and I liked the movie a LOT better.

[FanGirl]

I like the movie a whole lot better as well. It was his first book and its an awesome concept. The movie cleaned up a few things plus I really hated that in the book the meet at a nude beach. It just really felt out of place. Although, a nude Brad Pitt and Ed Norton wouldn't have been a bad thing.

[boobookittyfuk2007]

I like the movie a whole lot better as well. It was his first book and its an awesome concept. The movie cleaned up a few things plus I really hated that in the book the meet at a nude beach. It just really felt out of place. Although, a nude Brad Pitt and Ed Norton wouldn't have been a bad thing.
(Salivating like a dog) OHHHHH Ed Norton my hero. He is such an amazing actor. And not to hard on the eyes either. I am just not a Brad Pitt kind of girl. I would rather look at guys that would be in my league if he were not famous. You know? Anyway, I am going to try to read some of his books because he sounds like a great author and I am desperatly in need of a new book to read during my workout.

Thanks for the introduction to him you guys.