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MartyMcFly
Joined: Apr 05 2009
Location: Texas
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Chuck Palahniuk is without a doubt one of the greatest authors of our time. Though most people know of the movie "Fight Club" is amazing how few know it was a book first. If you haven't read his stuff before, I highly recommend each and every novel.
One of his novel's "Rant" shines above the rest, maybe just because I'm reading it again at the moment. Any book that can successfully combine serial murder, destruction derby, and time travel into one coherent story is doing something right as far as I'm concerned.
I don't understand why people spend their limited time reading trash novels like "Twilight" when there is such great new literature to be experienced.
So anyone else have a favorite author or specific novel from our generation?
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Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
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i like pahlaniuk, except his endings always disappoint me (choke, diary, invisible monsters etc)
i thought Rants narrative style was very good. i never read a book written in that fashion, but it was engaging and interesting
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MartyMcFly
Joined: Apr 05 2009
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I'll give you the endings are never what you expect. He sets you up for some grand culmination and then it just sorta ends, but to me that kinda what life is like. We're always looking for a grand meaning when often there is nothing there. What sorta authors do you read? I'm always looking for a new book, but it is hard to find a new author.
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Title: owner of a lonely heart
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i agree, life is very unsatisfying, so the endings make sense. but its so anti-climactic and annoying imo. especially when the narrative is so good. reminds me of 'no country for old men'
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Optimist With Doubts
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I don't buy that, you can't pin an inability to write an ending as a general commentary on humanity.
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MartyMcFly
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Well hes not unable to write an ending, I personally think the ending to most of his books are fitting. I think people just expect the 'happy' ending every time. When that doesn't happen we think something is wrong.
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JoshWoodzy
Joined: May 22 2008
Location: Goshen, VA
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The idea that Chuck is an indie/underground writer grates my nerves. The man is well known, makes millions off of every novel he writes and just happens to be an OK writer. I get so tired of douche bag scene kids coming up to me at work and asking about Fight Club almost daily! Then they proceed to engage in a conversation about Chuck like he is this literary Jesus. Don't get me wrong, I have enjoyed most of what he has written, I just don't hold him up on a pedestal any more than I do any other great writer.
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Title: owner of a lonely heart
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joshwoodzy wrote: |
The idea that Chuck is an indie/underground writer grates my nerves. The man is well known, makes millions off of every novel he writes and just happens to be an OK writer. I get so tired of douche bag scene kids coming up to me at work and asking about Fight Club almost daily! Then they proceed to engage in a conversation about Chuck like he is this literary Jesus. Don't get me wrong, I have enjoyed most of what he has written, I just don't hold him up on a pedestal any more than I do any other great writer. |
me too
granted, when i first read fight club and then survivor, i thought he was the best writer EVER!
but now hes pretty good, but not the greatest.
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Optimist With Doubts
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MartyMcFly wrote: |
Well hes not unable to write an ending, I personally think the ending to most of his books are fitting. I think people just expect the 'happy' ending every time. When that doesn't happen we think something is wrong. |
Yes but a satisfying ending does it mean it has to be a happy ending. A bad ending can ruin an otherwise great book. Even Stephan King has this problem with me where the rest of the book is solid and the ending disappoints, or the ending of a series in the case of the dark tower. Without a proper closure a book is just words.
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Title: owner of a lonely heart
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his books do have closure. there is a conclusion. pigmy had a good ending.
my only gripe, is that the endings are rather anti climactic for his other books. they tie up whatever loose ends there are, but they dont flow as well as the rest of the books.
rushed is not the right word, but its the first word that comes to mind
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MartyMcFly
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username wrote: |
his books do have closure. there is a conclusion. pigmy had a good ending.
my only gripe, is that the endings are rather anti climactic for his other books. they tie up whatever loose ends there are, but they dont flow as well as the rest of the books.
rushed is not the right word, but its the first word that comes to mind |
haha i don't know if you meant to do it but you used a motive that he uses in choke. "rushed is not the right word, but its the first word that comes to mind".
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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
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yeah, i did that on purpose. but i believe it sums up perfectly what i was trying to say
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pineapple
Joined: Nov 11 2009
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Great stuff. I just finished Fight Club a few months ago and I loved it.
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Title: owner of a lonely heart
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fight club is good
i think survivor is his best book, but thats just me
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