moorehed

thanks for the info.

i finished lullaby today, while i enjoyed it i was a bit dissapointed... my least favorite of all of his books so far.

what did anyone else think?

Mr. Self Destruct

If anyone is in Philadeplhia and is a fan, he is coming to the Penn bookstore to sign Lullaby, do a reading, and discuss this and other works. 7pm. 34th and Walnut!

moorehed

dangit, he was in raleigh/durham last week

Samuel

I liked Lullaby, just read it yesterday, not his best work but I've got nothing negative to say about it. I mostly enjoy his style of writing anyway. Do you think that newspaper class action ads thing is true? I see those all the time. Also notice in his stories how one of the charachters has some kind of oral injury ie; Fight Club, Invisible Montsers and Lullaby?

dstrauss

I loved Fight Club, but none of his other books have grabbed me the same. I did like Lullaby a great deal more than Invisible Monsters and Choke. Haven't read Survivor yet.

BTW, I didn't know until recently, his last name is pronounced "paula-nick."

Liver&Onions

Survivor is by far the best (but I haven't read lullaby yet)

Tuan Jim

nope, Chapel Hill ;p

I was working, but there was a pretty big crowd downstairs listening to him. Course it was nothing compared to yesterday when Bruce "The Man" Campbell was here. I got 2 books signed. Very nice. Just wish I had been able to get a seat while he was talking. Musta been a good 400-500 people crammed in the downstairs of the store.

Tuan Jim

moorehed

cool! didn't know you lived around here. what you do in CH-h? you see us stomp the tarholes yesterday?

Tuan Jim

Yeah, didn't watch cuz I was working on some other stuff. Our team is the suck. Morons can stay ahead for the first half then they completely lose it -- every single time. Seems the only way we can win is to play an away game.

Tuan Jim

GoVegan

I actually know where he got this info.

I just saw him speak a week or two ago and he said he got all of that info from listening to the two Beavis and Butthead cleaning guys who were cleaning up his new apartment (house?) before he moved in. Apparently they both also cleaned up after crime scenes. While they were there they were discussing various stains and how to remove them.

nny

While reading Choke, I was curious if the facts that the mom said were true. She was insane so I assume he just made up most of that stuff, but I think some of it was real.

Billman

I've been reading like a lunatic lately and (after I finish another Dan Brown book) I'm out of material. I loved Fight Club, so I thought I would try another Palahniuk book. Any recommendations?

TeeSeeJay

All of them:

Survivor
Invisible Monsters
Choke
Lullaby
Diary

Read Survivor next.

bcd

I'd go with Survivor then Choke

TeeSeeJay

If you like palahniuk, try Douglas Coupland: Generation X and Girlfriend in a Coma, specifically.

Billman

I've got Survivor on the way...

Alyoshka

Also, if you like Palhniuk, when you run out of books you ought to check out Stephen Dixon.

Billman

I might have read something by Stephen Dixon a few years back. Intersection, I think it was called. Is that Stephen Dixon?

Alyoshka

Yeah, I haven't actually read that one, but I have Frog and it's pretty interesting. He, like Palahniuk has a very unique style of writing.

Caliking

read em all except Invisible Monsters. This book was not good at all in my opinion.

i love his stuff but sometimes i have a hard time dealing with the lack of rules he lays out in his sotries...i dont believe everything his characters do because of this.

Calculon

Survivor is the best of the three I've read (FC and Choke being the other two).

Bean-si

Not forgetting Survivor's hidden ending. Check out Chuck's website.

paradicelost

So far my favorite is "Choke", mainly because i'm a fellow member of S.A.A(i guess i should'nt openly admit to that according to the rules, but i have no problem with it).
The greatest thing about Chuck is his never ending knowledge about the weirdest(and some would say useless) crap. To the anarchist stuff in Fight Club(which i think he had to replace a lot of things so people wouldn't know exactly how to blow up a building)to the weird cleaning techniques(like how to clean a microwave and filling bullet holes in a wall in a hurry) in "Survivor". And then there is the sexual slang in "Invisible Monsters".
When did diary come out i haven't even heard of that.
Lullaby is great as well but i found it to be much different than anything else that he has ever written.
I started reading J.G. Ballard because someone on the CP bb. And i loved Crash. Another recommendation is Nicholson Baker. He is much different than Chuck, but he's another author i got off of the CP forum. Vox is my favorite, the whole story is a guy talking to a woman he met on one of the sex phonelines. Again very different in writing style than Chuck but still worth checking out.

Damage

So far, CHOKE is my favourite Palahniuk book but I'm really enjoying LULLABY, which I'm currently reading. I read Douglas Coupland's GENERATION X and thought it was okay. (The chararcters were just a wee bit whiney to be as pretentious as they were...) If you enjoy something totally out there, pick up some Kurt Vonnegut. Start with SLAPSTICK and you'll be "lonesome no more!"

Rubix

sorry to be offtopic, but does anyone have the audioblog that was removed from http://www.chuckpalahniuk.net recently?

apparently chuck came out of the closet and has been living with a man for 11 years secretely. he came out since some reporter was blackmailing him about it possibly... but i think he was afraid it would happen sooner or later anyone so he wanted to let his fans know from him first.

i just wanna hear it myself, since it was removed because his publisher wasn't happy with his harse words about the reporter who was blackmailing him???