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?

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.

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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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".