Chuck Palhaniuk

Jedi Knightrider 3000 · Tue Sep 03, 2002 1:13 pm

Chuck Palhaniuk wrote the novel that the movie Fight Club was based on, as well as Choke, Invisible Monsters, and Survivor. His novels are amazingly disturbing and very indicative of some of the baser thought processes that we all have and probably try to deny. He is, in my estimation, this generation's Kurt Vonnegut, who I also happen to love the works of...

jjreason · Post by **jjreason** » Tue Sep 03, 2002 11:24 pm

I need a couple of new authors. I really like Elmore Leonard and Stephen King - really on the cutting edge I am - and I need to break free. Ill check out Palhaniuk as soon as I can.

Eternal Padawan · Post by **Eternal Padawan** » Sat Sep 07, 2002 1:59 am

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by jjreason
 I need a couple of new authors. I really like Elmore Leonard and Stephen King - really on the cutting edge I am - and I need to break free. Ill check out Palhaniuk as soon as I can.
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Don't feel bad. I read Tom Clancy and Michael Crichton.

I just got into Orson Scott Card and like his Ender books.

I bought Fight Club and have yet to get past the second chapter.

Jedi Knightrider 3000 · Sat Sep 07, 2002 6:03 pm

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Eternal Padawan
 I bought Fight Club and have yet to get past the second chapter.
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REALLY! wow, that's surprising. i find him a very easy read. have you seen the movie (i know that makes me sound COMPLETELY illiterate...) but it's possible that his stuff just doesn't talk to you the way it talks to me. if you saw the movie and didn't enjoy it, most likely it's that he just doesn't reach you...

Eternal Padawan · Post by **Eternal Padawan** » Tue Aug 26, 2003 2:42 pm

Nope, I went back and read the entire thing in two days. I just was not into it at the time I tried reading it the first time.

I LOVE the movie. It was the best movie of 1999 in my opinion.

I may check out some of his other stuff.

jjreason · Post by **jjreason** » Sat Aug 30, 2003 3:51 pm

I finally got a copy of this book as well, and finished it nice and quick. Good read, but I wish I hadn't watched the movie first as it ruined the shock. You guys figure he really kacked himself at the end, or whas he drugged in the hospital recovering from a serious facial wound?

Eternal Padawan · Post by **Eternal Padawan** » Sat Aug 30, 2003 5:22 pm

I'm thinking the latter. In the book it's a little more obvious that he is Tyler and Tyler is he. I remember the first time I saw the movie thinking that ending was total cheese ( surviving a gunshot to the face). But now it's one of my fave endings to a film. "Everything is going to be just fine." as the buildings all collapse. Classic.

jjreason · Post by **jjreason** » Sat Aug 30, 2003 10:05 pm

All accompanied by "Where is my mind?" by the Pixies. Super dee duper classic.

Negative Boy · Post by **Negative Boy** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 6:06 pm

You realize this is a literature forum the only thing you lamelizards can discuss is a book that was made into a movie, and then the discussion devolves into merely discussing the movie! But I digest, Charles Palhaniuk is a hack and a sham of a writer. He merely regurgitates that which he thinks will shock and offend readers in a freeform recollective stew of amazingly bad verbiage and vitriol. I'm certain he only got a publishing deal because his lower jaw unhinges in a satisfactory manner to the pulisher and some dickwad gloomy video director yanked his remaindered book from obscurity and turned it into one of the worst films of the last twenty years. I can't believe anyone would pay hard earned money to watch that drivel and the idea of someone actually wanting to read the book AFTER they saw the stench of a film is ludicrous. But then I realized I was talking about you bozos. Ha ha! Your tastes in books and movies sucks. Dinglepusses.