Fight CLub was awesome, and some of his non fiction is pretty good too, but his fiction is repetitive and dull. Is anyone going to see Choke?
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Chuck Palahniuk is a lousy writer-Discuss
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hwamf |
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Posts: 2602 (08/07/08 11:45 AM) FAQ bitcher |
Survivor is far better than Fight Club. Invisible monsters was pretty good too. I don't like his more recent stuff.
John Grisham, Dan Brown, and Clive Cusller are lousy writers. Chuck is not. |
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Posts: 4243 (08/07/08 11:50 AM) Registered user |
Survivor was pretty heavy handed with its social commentary imo. Fight Club was the only story he wrote that has legitimate characters instead of coathooks in
which to hang his ideas
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Posts: 15299 (08/07/08 11:52 AM) Monkey tamer |
you're crazy. Guts is an amazing short story.
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Posts: 4245 (08/07/08 11:56 AM) Registered user |
I actually liked Haunted, but thats because its a collection of quirky horror stories rather then a story with no plot at all with no "real" human
beings but quirky caricatures just for the sake of being quirky
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Posts: 126 (08/07/08 12:10 PM) |
I don't care about his writing. He's hot.
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Posts: 548 (08/07/08 12:41 PM) |
I like his writing, but it always leaves me feeling "unsettled" after I read his books.
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Unsettled is a good word for it. He starts well and ends well, but most of his stories' middles are pretty boring.
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Posts: 4246 (08/07/08 12:44 PM) Registered user |
The only thing I really liked from him was "Stranger then fiction", I'm ging to go to that Testicle festivel sometime |
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Posts: 28276 (08/07/08 12:47 PM) Registered user |
I literally threw Haunted into the trash..
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Dr Will Hatch two point oh |
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Posts: 4247 (08/07/08 1:13 PM) Registered user |
I didn't hate it that much, it was pulpy and I liked that. It's a lot better then when hes pretentious
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Posts: 28277 (08/07/08 1:19 PM) Registered user |
You know what else sat in the garbage can with Chuck Palhueynuk?
'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close' by Jonathon Safran Foer A one note author if ever one existed on this planet. |
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Dr Will Hatch two point oh |
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Posts: 4248 (08/07/08 1:24 PM) Registered user |
Maus>Everything Is Illuminated
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hwamf |
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Posts: 2611 (08/07/08 1:27 PM) FAQ bitcher |
So, you've read Fight Club, Survivor, Haunted, Choke, and Stranger than Fiction and you think he's a lousy writer?
Thats queer. |
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Dr Will Hatch two point oh |
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Posts: 4250 (08/07/08 1:33 PM) Registered user |
I think hes one note. Sure,he has a lot of interesting ideas, but the way he writes makes everyone sound the same. They all pontificate about the same things
over and over again in a circle until some weird shit happens which breaks the chain.
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Posts: 5512 (08/07/08 1:37 PM) |
I just bought "Lullaby" by him, but haven't gotten a chance to read it. Fight Club was awesome though!
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BeaKiddo |
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Posts: 1778 (08/07/08 7:36 PM) Registered User |
'Haunted' was incredibly disturbing. I couldn't stop reading it. I won't read another one of his books. I
will go see that movie though.
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Posts: 2389 (08/07/08 8:15 PM) |
he is highly overrated and if you've read one of his books you've basically read them all.
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Posts: 4265 (08/07/08 8:30 PM) Registered user |
Exactly. I loved Fight Club, and his non fiction is good, but everything else is middling or junk
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Posts: 4913 (08/07/08 8:37 PM) Yes, smarter than you |
Of his last two, I really loved Rant. His latest, Snuff, was ridiculously lame, though.
Sorry, I like his stuff. He's this generations Tom Robbins, with a little less talent and a lot more disturbed wackiness. Kimbob the Approving |
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hwamf |
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Posts: 2614 (08/07/08 8:41 PM) FAQ bitcher |
I wish Dr Will Hatch two point oh would let us know his opinion on this. His 8 posts in this one page thread are so vague.
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