i know there has been a thread on him before (probably many), but they are all long dead, so here's another.
plus. the "quotes" thread made me nostalgic for his books.
i'm sure quite a few/most people have read books by him & apart from just "omg fight club is so good!!11" any other comments?
what have you read? comments on plot/characters?
what are you looking to read?
in order of preference (starting with favourite), i have read:
choke.
fight club.
survivor.
lullaby.
invisible monsters.
diary.
haha. i read the first maybe two chapters of invisible monsters years ago as an e-book, and the only thing i could remember was "birds ate my face."
i bought the book last year or so, and man, i love that quote. it just means so many different things.
it was my signature on here for ages.
i read fight club first (obv) &then choke was the second. i don't know, i love it so much. it's probably one of my favourite books ever, if not my favourite. i haven't read it in a while though. but just tonight, when i was looking through it to find the quote for the other thread, i was flicking through trying to find the quote & i was like "owhh. this book is amazing."
anyway. i will stop rambling.
edit;; and really? diary above fight club? i didn't really enjoy diary at all. maybe it's because i rushed it and read it at like 3am every night for about a week, but there was something about it that i just found.. boring, i guess.
Just keep asking yourself: 'What would Jesus NOT do?'
"Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."
haha. i read the first maybe two chapters of invisible monsters years ago as an e-book, and the only thing i could remember was "birds ate my face."
edit;; and really? diary above fight club? i didn't really enjoy diary at all. maybe it's because i rushed it and read it at like 3am every night for about a week, but there was something about it that i just found.. boring, i guess.
maybe they are level, im not sure, i havent read fight club for ages. Whereas Diary was the last palahniuk book ive read and i found it different to other palahniuk books, it was still wonderfully twisted, i guess it was just more imaginative, i dunno, theres just something about it that i really liked.
Survivor was the first palahniuk book i read. I then read choke, which actually put me off starting other palahniuk books for a while but then i found invisible monsters for really cheap and read that. Im still not sure what i prefer survivor or invisible monsters, they keep replacing each other at the top.
My favorites from Chuck Palahniuk are Invisible Monsters (I could reread that every week and still love it), Lullaby, Fight Club, and Rant, but I enjoyed all of his books.
Diary is possibly my least favorite, I didnt really like the conspiracy bit.
Haunted lives up to its name for suree. I was a bit disgusted after reading it, and didn't like it for awhile, but parts of it kept coming back to me and I think the fact that its so gory is why I really like it now.
Palahniuk is definitely one of my favorite authors. I love his writing style and nihilistic tone most of his books have.
I like when lines of his cross over into different books too, it gives me little goosebumps haha.
[center]" I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. How you hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside."
I've read his short story, guts. Its disgusting.
But its good.
"That is why, for Christ's sake,
I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships,
in persecutions, in difficulties.
For when I am weak, then I am strong"
(2 Corinthians 12:13)
Rant is seriously one big mindf*** hahah I cant describe it any other way. Its so good though, its different from his other books but it still resembles the other ones.
I had to read it twice after that ending, to fully 'get it'.
I just finished Invisible Monsters, the first of his I've read.
effing brilliant, in my opinion. Can't wait to read more. a guy at school is supposed to lend me Choke & one other, can't remember which, but I'm psyyyyched.
i love palahniuk
read almost all of them- not rant or non fiction though
lullaby or invisible monsters are my favourites
haunted is probably my least, good individual stories, but the overall plotline was a little weak i felt
also i LOVED choke.
