i got the audio book version of rant... i went to one of chuck's book signings and asked him "how much of your writing is based upon real events?" it was a dumb question, but i just wanted to get a big fake rose (s**t and roses tour) anyways, he said something about people wiring fullsize cars with RC controls then hunting them down with shotguns and that was going to be in Rant... i've yet to see it. me and chuck have the same birthday!
You're wrong. Choke is his best novel. Survivor and Fight Club are right there also. I loved Rant, I loved the style in which it was written. I liked Lullaby. Invisible Monsters was good but really appeals more to women. Diary and Haunted are his worst IMO however.
Chuck P. is my hero. All his themes have a common similarity and that's social interaction. The people who say the rest of his stuff is exactly like Fight Club are not reading deep enough. He explores so many different themes in each book that you can take something different with you each time you read it. Anyway, Survivor, Choke, Lullaby and Rant are my faves followed by Invisible Monsters and Diary. Not such a big fan of Stranger than Fiction or Haunted though. I get attached to his characters and I couldn't do that in the latter.
The movie was garbage, the ending was absolutely horrendous. BUT, the book is by far one of the greatest novels I've had my pleasure of reading. Seriously, if you want to whine and bitch about the movie, you have to read the book.
Choke is great, but not amazing. Diary was okay, the whole reincarnation thing lost me, and is by no means the best. Invisible Monsters was amazing, but I have to go with Fight Club for being his best work. It's just...too damn good. Haunted was, well, horrifying. I vomited a few times and then quickly skipped over the short stories within. Rant was...strange. Very strange. I hated how the speakers changed and were very unreliable, also, how the characters assumed we knew what 'boosting peaks' were. Nobody told the same s**t twice, you couldn't believe any of the characters' sides of the stories, and it took me forever and a day to figure out Green Taylor Simms was Rant Casey. I've been trying to steal a friends' copy of Survivor, and I'm extremely curious about Palahniuk's non-fiction works, but, I can't find them in any local bookstores.tl;drFight Club's the best.
sb76117Nov 14, 2007
i got the audio book version of rant... i went to one of chuck's book signings and asked him "how much of your writing is based upon real events?" it was a dumb question, but i just wanted to get a big fake rose (s**t and roses tour) anyways, he said something about people wiring fullsize cars with RC controls then hunting them down with shotguns and that was going to be in Rant... i've yet to see it. me and chuck have the same birthday!
majeoNov 16, 2007
2008: <a class="user" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1024715/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1024715/</a>
benbotNov 21, 2007
You're wrong. Choke is his best novel. Survivor and Fight Club are right there also. I loved Rant, I loved the style in which it was written. I liked Lullaby. Invisible Monsters was good but really appeals more to women. Diary and Haunted are his worst IMO however.
rantcaseyJan 9, 2008
Chuck P. is my hero. All his themes have a common similarity and that's social interaction. The people who say the rest of his stuff is exactly like Fight Club are not reading deep enough. He explores so many different themes in each book that you can take something different with you each time you read it. Anyway, Survivor, Choke, Lullaby and Rant are my faves followed by Invisible Monsters and Diary. Not such a big fan of Stranger than Fiction or Haunted though. I get attached to his characters and I couldn't do that in the latter.
bfnewsApr 21, 2008
Sweet! I loved Rant and Survivor. A new Chuck novel is always a good thing...
bfnewsApr 21, 2008
Agree - Rant was indeed amazing...
theinfamouskoMay 14, 2008
The movie was garbage, the ending was absolutely horrendous. BUT, the book is by far one of the greatest novels I've had my pleasure of reading. Seriously, if you want to whine and bitch about the movie, you have to read the book.
theinfamouskoMay 14, 2008
Choke is great, but not amazing. Diary was okay, the whole reincarnation thing lost me, and is by no means the best. Invisible Monsters was amazing, but I have to go with Fight Club for being his best work. It's just...too damn good. Haunted was, well, horrifying. I vomited a few times and then quickly skipped over the short stories within. Rant was...strange. Very strange. I hated how the speakers changed and were very unreliable, also, how the characters assumed we knew what 'boosting peaks' were. Nobody told the same s**t twice, you couldn't believe any of the characters' sides of the stories, and it took me forever and a day to figure out Green Taylor Simms was Rant Casey. I've been trying to steal a friends' copy of Survivor, and I'm extremely curious about Palahniuk's non-fiction works, but, I can't find them in any local bookstores.tl;drFight Club's the best.
theinfamouskoMay 14, 2008
Somebody has a six-part YouTube vidoe of an exerpt from Snuff.Part One:<a class="user" href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z4HUXfGQ3Ag">http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z4HUXfGQ3Ag</a>I came buckets.