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Posted 21 April 2005 - 12:03 PM

Okay, for all people that want to know about Chuck Palahniuk, I'll post it here...



First, and most important, the new book Haunted will be released on the 3rd of May. And it's going to rock REALLY hard.

On the Haunted Website you can find an excerpt, called Slumming. Read it and then you'll see how great it is. Also the famous story Guts is part of Haunted.
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Posted 28 April 2005 - 07:14 PM

Palahniuk is awesome. Definitely one of the best contemporary writers out there, and my personal favourite. He has a wonderful dry wit and love of anarchy tinged with humanitarianism that I find infinitely appealing. Even the stuff that isn't in that category, like Guts, still manages to affect most people incredibly intensely (I've had many people screaming at me for recommending it to them :D). I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for the new one.
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Posted 03 May 2005 - 01:21 PM

Chuck's new masterpiece, Haunted, hits the bookshelfs in America today! The first time ever I wished I lived in the States... Or that I owned a creditcard...

For the credit card'ers...
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Posted 04 May 2005 - 01:56 AM

I loved Fight Club, Survivor, and Invisible monsters...

i never got around to choke or anything after that... but i shall someday...

his stuff is brilliant!!!

I particulary like the narrative of IM... where events are told in order of climactic relevence as apposed to chronological order...

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Posted 04 May 2005 - 04:03 AM

Personally, I really liked Lullaby.


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Posted 04 May 2005 - 10:36 AM

Lullyabye and Choke were okay... I just think the stories weren't as developed as Fight Club's was.
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Posted 04 May 2005 - 02:11 PM

What? Lullaby might even have a better story than FC...
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Posted 16 June 2005 - 05:23 AM

Okay, I almost finished Haunted. And it rocks even harder than expected. If you can get your hands on this precious tome, don't hessitate! It's worth every single penny! What!? Are you still staring at your computer screen!? Go to the book store!! Now!
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Posted 27 June 2005 - 09:03 PM

As good as FC was, I find Chuck to be a bit too repetitve thematically. Maybe I'm just being picky - FC by itself is enough to be happy with - but compared to say Bret Easton Ellis - who also rely's on the same tricks, plot devices and character traits again and again - his writing doesn't really stack up.
Perhaps it's true and most of us have only one story, his has just been stretched to more than one book.

Read FC and then Glamorama and note the difference in quality.
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Posted 28 June 2005 - 04:00 AM

Maybe the themes are similar in his books, but it develops differently. Did you read Survivor?

Anyway, with his new novel, Haunted, he went a different road anyway...
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