anyone into his books? i think he is an amazing writer, if you havnt read anything by him i suggest you check out "choke" or if you want to read his most famous book which was made into a movie, i would suggest "fight club"

Is fucking God. "Fight Club" is one of the truest books I've ever read.

I didn't really like anything after Choke. Invisible Monsters was too byzantine and somewhat predictable, and Lullaby was just ridiculous.

Fight Club is a fuckin awesome book... so is the movie..

I own the fight club book. Thought I owned another one of his books, put apparently not. :eek:

Is he a Nihilist? or was he just exploring that in his book fight club?:confused:

How is Fight Club a nihlistic work?

oh no Xev called me out..no ..lol actually somebody reffered it to me as a nihilist work...so i wanted to know if it was or was he one? a Nihilist?

Fight Club is one of my favorite movies.

I have seen it a dozen or two times.

The narration was superb, the dialogue was very good, and the snips of monologue were great.

I bought the book thinking it must be at LEAST as good as the screenplay.

The book sucked.
I read it twice (I wanted to give it a second chance because I couldn;t believe such a good movie came from such a poor book).

Still sucked.

Fight Club was a great idea, and although a lot of the snippets of dialogue were very good, I just don't think it was written well overall.
It left me wanting for so much more.

It seems that (judging by the interviews I read and the commentary track from the DVD) all those creative ideas came from other people.
He interviewed people at bars and friends of his over time, and they told him all the mini-stories that found their way into the book, so he really can't be credited for all the great ideas either.

He took all these great ideas, and compiled them into a poorly written book that has a lot of great word-play quotes and clever comments.

It was an ideal book to be turned into a movie, and they did a great job on it.

I was just entirely unimpressed with Chuck.
Granted, I haven't read anything else by him yet, (I DO plan to) but basing my judgement on this alone, he doesn't strike me as much of a writer at all.

Fight Club was a great book and a great movie.

Survivor was a pretty good book.

Invisible Monsters was a pretty good book.

Choke was my favorite Palahniuk book, I believe.

I haven't read Lullaby yet.

I've read Fight Club twice and the other three books once apiece, but I am going to reread them over the summer. Perhaps my opinions will evolve.

I have heard many rumors and have actually downloaded most of the script for the movie survivor. They are planning on making the book into a movie! "A film version was in the works at 20th Century Fox (with names like Trent Reznor, Nicole Kidman, and Marilyn Manson attached), but was taken off the development slate as a result of the 9/11 tragedy. " -www.palahnuik.com/

Chuck rules!

Invisible Monsters was my favorite, I love that whole scene where they're tossing postcards off the space needle.

"the one you love and the one who loves you are never ever the same person"

so fucking true

Fight Club is a close second. the only one I didn't really love was lullaby, but it's still pretty good

has anybody heard anything about his next book? I think it's called Diary

~GHY~

Picked up invisible monsters. Didn't like it. It felt to me like shock for the sake of chockvalue itself, not for entertainment or enlightenment. Sure, it had somewhat of a complete turnaround at the end, but I wouldn't say it's worth to read the whole book for that.

As to fight club, you might just as well see the movie. It's the same, but with visual effects.. :D

And I wouldn't call his work nihilist in the least. Rather just deeply introspective. Most people questions their purpose in life. Not finding an answer != Not believing there is one.