Chuck Palahniuk

[HamsterDemocracy]

I dunno, I heard good things, but I started reading "Survivor" and the whole tone of his narrative strikes me as childish and waay too narcissistic  (this is coming from someone who loves narcissism). It's supposedly a satire but I think his knack for using excessive detail for the stupidest things is quite irritating after a while. Fight Club the movie did a good job of capturing his narrative style but I think it works better as a film than it does as a novel.

It reminds me of the type of thing Marilyn Manson junkies would really identify with and relate to, and I say this because Manson hailed Palahniuk in the past as a "brilliant writer" and whatnot, and he was going to star in the Survivor movie before 9/11 postponed its production.

[spacebrain5000]

I think Chuck Palaniuk is pretty clever. I've read a few of his books, Survivor, (which is incredible) and Choke (lesser so).
I absolutely loved Survivor- although it may not be everyone's cup of tea. It's straightforward, inane, incredibly cynical, original... narcissistic... an increidbly twisted sense of humor if you're into that.
The only problem is, his books are all basically about the same thing, have the same formula. Survivor though, is my personal favorite. It's all so wonderfully ridiculous.

[HamsterDemocracy]

I think Chuck Palaniuk is pretty clever. I've read a few of his books, Survivor, (which is incredible) and Choke (lesser so).
I absolutely loved Survivor- although it may not be everyone's cup of tea. It's straightforward, inane, incredibly cynical, original... narcissistic... an increidbly twisted sense of humor if you're into that.
The only problem is, his books are all basically about the same thing, have the same formula. Survivor though, is my personal favorite. It's all so wonderfully ridiculous.

He reminds me of Bret Easton Ellis - similar narrative style, and all his books are pretty much the same and have the same moral/point. I mean, all of Ellis' work is about society's greed and commercialism and its affect on the soul. American Psycho is interchangeable with Rules of Attraction which is interchangeable with Less Than Zero.

Palahniuk is very similar.

[Where is Hassan Nasrallah ?]

i can re-read american psycho.

i can't do that with Palahniuk books. they're boring. i always thought that the fact that Fight Club was as good a in film an on paper was due to the quality of the film. i learned that it's just because the book isn't that great.