Chuck Palahniuk [Merged]

[walangdila]

this author really kicks @ss... i love his pessismistic thoughts, all the negative energies, braintwisting, nervewrecking, adrenalin-rush stuff, my GOD he's really one of the best and most original contemporary American writers. i adored FIGHT CLUB. for some time it became a serious personal philosophy and religion. and now SURVIVOR. hands down to this guy. basahin nyo and wear your seatbelts for a hellride of satiric and brilliantly morbid novels.

can't wait to read his INVISIBLE MONSTERS, CHOKE, and his future writings.

[MarlaSinger]

True. True. Chuck Rocks!

Most of his novels have a core theme usually the lead character has a displaced messiah-nic complex... often angsty... often languishing in their own bile hehe.

his writing just gets to you, there seems to be a sardonic punchline to every page most of his works feature strong male central figures though he has tried to create a female anti-heroine (which i think falls short , mas kuha niya yung male psyche talaga!)

anyway hope you guys out there would try reading his works
you won't be disappointed!

[polar12]

INVISIBLE MONSTERS is my favorite among all his works. I just loved the twists and turns and the surprise ending. I read CHOKE a few months back when it came out and I'm not impressed at all. Still a cool writer, though, although I wish he'd try a different route the next time he writes something.

[the sandman]

Anyone reading Chuck Palahniuk? He's the author of Fight Club and other great novels about f.cked up people. Some say he's a bad writer some say genius but, what do you think?

[mark takano]

I haven't read any of his work, but I've seen Fight Club; he must be brilliant if he could think that up, i think. Tried reading Brett Easton Ellis? Glamorama is f-d up, too, just like American Psycho. The movie version of American Psycho is gret, by the way.

[mark takano]

the characters, not the books, are f-d up--is what i meant, of course.. but you got that.

[Onomatopoet]

he's purty good....not to mention the underlying sense of humour in most everything he writes.

[Introvert_S]

so far, I've read Choke and Diary. Nakakatuwa yung paulit-ulit niyang style saka yung pagbanggit niya ng mga medical terms to describe yung hitsura mo pag binugbog ka

[the sandman]

I read somewhere na gagawin ding movie yung book nyang Survivor, sana maayos din and adaptation tulad ng Fight Club!

[ilovenikolai]

it's love.

[bigfish]

My friend loaned me his copy of "Invisible Monster" nagandahan ako. I like his style, minsan nga lang nakakapagod basahin.

[denhaag]

CHUCK PALAHNIUK is awesome...read his short stories/essays too and he's really funny. "extreme behavior" is really funny and shocking; it's a must-read. another good short story is "the ghost who came to say he was sorry"...

[Wu]

i adore the guy. the best is fight club.

Meron na bang nagbasa ng "diary"? medyo kapos nag kuwento sa ending...

[eli_xander]

im currently reading lullaby...

[Kolmogorov]

I have some books. Guilty pleasure kasi ang naninipis ng books niya pero ang mamahal!

I read "Haunted" last year. Nakakatuwang basahin kahit uber gross...

[bananalube]

I know this because Tyler knows this.

[Citizen Erased]

Hmm...I have Fight Club, Diary, Lullaby, Invisible Monsters and Choke. I haven't read the last two yet, but among the first three, I enjoyed Fight Club the most, followed by survivor.

I regretted buying Diary, though; it was immensely dragging at some points. When I went to Fully Booked the day I purchased it, five copies of Survivor and their last copy of Diary (the Vintage UK publishing, a standard I kept among all the C.P. books I already had) were sitting next to each other on the shelf, and I picked up Diary instead. I wish I listened to the reviews first before buying anything. Haha. I should've picked up Survivor.

[sal paradise]

I have all of Chuck Palahniuk's books, even the non-fiction collections. and I love everyone of them. I now find it hard to read any other author after getting used to Chuck's every-sentence-drives-the-plot writing style. I understand the comment about Diary being "dragging" as it's a departure from his other works primarily because it's a horror story. But still, I like it.

[my_identity]

Could somebody please tell me how to pronounce his last name?

[StellarNepenthe]

^^ i believe it's pronounced "po-la-nik." hehe