[XJ3B]

I did not really like Rant or Survivor.

Love his other books though.

Rant and survivor were just boring to me

[XJ3B]

I did not really like Rant or Survivor.

Love his other books though.

Rant and survivor were just boring to me

[X The Dude X]

Originally Posted by Hammer_Fist

I have read all of his books except Choke, and thoroughly enjoyed all of them. Rant, his latest book is a very entertaining read, full of a lot of mental gymnastics. Great book. Haunted is also a very good book. You can learn some good lessons from that disgusting book.

I'm a big fan, and I'll be getting snuff when it comes out.

Since you're a fan of his, you should definitely pick up Choke, that's one of my favorites of his. Rant was really entertaining, I enjoyed that one a lot. And Haunted was so crazy and well formed, and you're right, there was some pretty disgusting shit that I learned from that one. It's nuts that people actually passed out when he read the Guts chapter at some of his book readings.

[jkuhlmann]

chuck rules. bump.

[?/?/?/]

Yeah, I have read a bunch of his works. Not a huge fan, really just read them because they are part of American pop. culture. But, I find that most people that profess to like him are elitist assholes who like to sit around and rave about esoteric meanings hidden in his work. His pieces are ok for entertainment, but I don’t think there is anything any deeper than that, sheer entertainment value. He isn’t the next Faulkner or Vonnegut, that’s for sure.

[Nihilistic]

Originally Posted by ?/?/?/

Yeah, I have read a bunch of his works. Not a huge fan, really just read them because they are part of American pop. culture. But, I find that most people that profess to like him are elitist assholes who like to sit around and rave about esoteric meanings hidden in his work. His pieces are ok for entertainment, but I don’t think there is anything any deeper than that, sheer entertainment value. He isn’t the next Faulkner or Vonnegut, that’s for sure.

agreed. Chuck is awesome because his stories are great and amusing but they are what they are and nothing more. I enjoy his work because I always want to know what happens next. Very few others do that for me. Well actually... really only 1 does. B.E.E the man behind American Psycho. While the book sucked ass for drawing me in for the first 1/4... the rest was awesome.

[SuperNerd]

Originally Posted by XJ3B

I did not really like Rant or Survivor.

Love his other books though.

Rant and survivor were just boring to me

I just finished my first Palahniuk book, Survivor. I didnt think it was great, but it was pretty good. I'm going to read some from him.

[johnsic]

Originally Posted by Christian Medina

His name is Robert Paulson!

Fight Club, book and movie, were big reasons why I started training.



My favoRITE book is Rant. The interwoven conclusion was clever. I got a kick out of Diary, it's tone, and the ending, but Rant is the best.

Guts was a good one in Haunted. There is also a good one in there about a sex doll and the police department.

What about Foot job? It was hilarious.

[stifler2]

I love chuck p. books. I had everything he ever wrote and looked forward to his releases. however. and this is a big however. that last book snuff was horrible. it didnt seem like he wrote it to be honest. it was niether here nor there. it's a book about men waiting in line to have sex on film like annabelle chong, only they dont have names but numbers. none of the charactors have any real detail, the story is sort of weak and the ending, which i wont ruin, was mild and sort of predictable. it seemed more like a rough draft that a book company pubilished. i sold it as soon as i read it because it only took me like a day or two to read.

[stifler2]

Originally Posted by ?/?/?/

Yeah, I have read a bunch of his works. Not a huge fan, really just read them because they are part of American pop. culture. But, I find that most people that profess to like him are elitist assholes who like to sit around and rave about esoteric meanings hidden in his work. His pieces are ok for entertainment, but I don’t think there is anything any deeper than that, sheer entertainment value. He isn’t the next Faulkner or Vonnegut, that’s for sure.

chucks books are interesting to me in part because alot of the story he writes with his own perception of life (morbid) and then gives you either a) info dumps full of little known facts or b) stories he actually got from fans / people he met.
in 'choke' he actually went to a sex addiction group to research what goes on in there and got alot of material which is why he talks about that in fight club and choke and so on..