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i heard is a really good book. its by the creator of fight club, fighting is oh so fun when its free |
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you read??? |
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Technically this thread shouldn't get close,it has content. |
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*closed |
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all the other dr. obnoxious-face threads are gone. and so is he, so it would appear. for the time being, anyways. good. it's for the best. =] |
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Diary: I tracked it down today in a local bookstore, I've enjoyed all of chucks previous books (I just finished choke recently and thought it was great). so I'm pretty sure I'll be picking it up next payday. Surely someone on this mb has already read it and can give us some feedback of some sort? |
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Well yes, if you did a search you should've looked in one of the more popular threads. |
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For the record I thought Diary was OK but not as good as some of his other stuff. |
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cheers bigfella! |
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It's a great book, I like when Chuck uses a female as the lead role. And of course it has some interesting twists, it's a Chuck book! If you liked Choke (one of my favorites) you'll like this. |
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I saw Chuck promoting this on Conan. Very funny stories about people vomiting and passing out at his readings. |
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I'm reading it at the moment. I thought it was just going to be a slow starter, but I'm half way through now and it still hasn't really picked up. So far I think it's his weakest book. |
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i just finished reading this. i really am not a big fan of the author, i think pretty much everything he's done since fight club has been recycling the same ideas. i also heard something about how he gets most of his facts wrong in his novels. i get sick of the cynical stuff he keeps cranking out, its pretty tiring. |
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not as good as his other books check out survivor or lullaby his short story collection that came out recently is good too |
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WOW i am with you, 100%! |
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i heard Guts being read. seemed pretty pointless, "shocking". is everything in the short story collection like that? |
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"guts" isn't even in there, I believe. |
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ah, for some reason i thought it was. this little opening of a review on salon.com pretty much describes my feelings about this guys work: Imagine some crappy novels. Imagine that they're all written in the same phony, repetitive, bombastic style as this paragraph, all hopped-up imperatives and posturing one-liners. Imagine that they're sloppily put together. Imagine that everything even remotely clever in them has been done before and better by someone else. Imagine that each one flaunts the kind of "research" that can be achieved by leafing through a trade magazine for 30 minutes and is riddled with grating errors. Imagine that these books traffic in the half-baked nihilism of a stoned high school student who has just discovered Nietzsche and Nine-Inch Nails. Does it hurt yet? Now, imagine that every five pages or so the author of these novels will describe something as smelling like shit or piss because the TRUTH is fucking ugly, man. Imagine that he affects to attack the shallow, simplistic, dehumanizing culture of commodity capitalism by writing shallow, simplistic, dehumanized fiction. But, heck, why go to all the effort of imagining any of this when a new Chuck Palahniuk novel arrives at your local bookstore annually? |
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heh. |
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Guts was a show with an aggro-crag and "MO!" |
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it was the first Palhniuk I got bored reading the first chapter of..I stopped reading it (i have read all his other books) I mean to pick it up and read it again.... |
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i only read survivor (the beguining is really good, the middle is weird but ok, the ending ridiculous) & lullaby (complete crap from start to finish) i think, as a writer, he's really overated (or read by linkin park fans if you know what i mean) & his female characters are so poor... in a close field, douglas coupland is much better (even if not my fav writer at all) |
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i don't want to be a prick, i don't think palahniuk is a very good writer, but did you "get" the end of survivor? there's a twist to it-- he does figure out how to survive, and there are hints. |
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The premise of this thread is horrible. "Hey guys, I just heard this book is good. K, bye" WOW. THANKS FOR THE INFO BURST. HOLY FUCKING SHIT. |
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i'm not talking about the very last pages, i think i've "understood" the very ending ;) i'm talking about the last 30pages that i didn't like at all. |
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o, yeah -- kind of disappointing, i agree. |
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