How did you discover Chuck?

Pretty much the same way, the small details are different but basicly the same.

I saw Fight Club twice the opening weekend (That dilutes from the viewer number vs. $38 mil intake - sorry). I was so lost in the first ten minutes (kudos to Fincher) that I had to go absorb the rest of what had happened. Then bought the DVD.
Slow Forward 2 years: Then I signed up for my first college course this August and started taking ENG 101. I used to HATE reading. I tried it for leisure several times and it was sheer pain, which I later discovered was from the material I was reading (imagine that). My teacher said "The only differnce between someone published and someone unpublished is that the published one's have submitted something."
This made sense, so I started writing a short story for a Playboy college writing contest. Not wanting to be too archaic or over-filling I wanted to read something that I had already enjoyed in some capacityand remembered that Fight Club was a book first. So I went to the store and bought Choke. Then Survivor. Now I am on Fight Club. I realized Chuck had read my thoughts, stole my mind and imitated my words, so I knew I was on the right course in regards to my paper. I mailed my story off the other day so wish me luck.

Now if he would just give me my damn mind back.

And anyone who hasn't signed the Survivor petition, please do. Trent Reznor and Chuck smelting their vibes together can only be a good thing!

Yeah, I had to see Fight Club twice 'cause I didn't fully get it the first time! The first time I saw it my brother was like "pay attention or you'll get lost!", and he was right! I really liked the movie and the whole "Buddhism-on-heroine" theme. I had no idea it was based on a book so I never went to the source.

Jump to me at a book store some years later. I'm dicking around in the Fiction section when I see "Fight Club" on a shelf. I was impressed at the lenght of the book, the book not being as big as I would've imagined since it's a pretty dense movie! Next to "Fight Club" was "Choke". "Hmmm", I thought, "what if I buy this one instead of 'Fight Club'?". Since I had seen the movie (and therefore knew the basic plot), I thought I would take a chance at "Choke". Needless to say, it was a GREAT book! I read it in 2 days; I just couldn't put it down. I've been a fan ever since. I'm only missing "Lullaby", hopefully I'll get it next week.

zach told me to read survivor so i went out and bought it. then bought choke, then invible monstors, ect. so its all zach's fault.

i was at boarding school and got detention which up there is like 4 hours so on my way i ran into a friend and she told me i should read...and gave me survivor ....which after reading all the books is still my favorite

When the movie first came out I thought it looked really stupid. Being a Brad Pitt movie and the previews made it look like it was just about the fighting, like some amutuer WWF (thanks Fox;) )

Then about, oh I don't know, about a year later I guess. My aunt kept telling me I had to see it. And I'm like, well... I don't know. Then I vistited her and she made me. And I loved it. So then I told everyone in my close proxcimity about.

And one day I was standing near my friends locker as he was packing up and he had the book laying by his bag. And I say, "That's a book!!" And he says, "ya, you want to borrow it?" Hells, ya I do. And I loved the book.

Then about a year later I was talking about it with my cousin and he mentioned IM and Survivor that were by Chuck too. You see I did not know he had any other books seeing as how on the FC copy it said this was his only book. I loved his work from then on.

I guess I discovered Chuck Palahniuk after I met this punk rock girl at a Sparklehorse concert. We met in the blacklight-lit crowded hallway that led to the bathrooms and talked briefly about music. She took my lighter. After the show we talked at the bar. Several cocktails later she went home with me. She ninja-fucked me. Later she showed me her scars from trying to kill herself. I showed her my scars. We stayed up all night. She saw a copy of 'American Psycho' on my kitchen counter. She asked if I had ever read 'Fight Club'. The rest is history...

My brother worked at a movie theatre as projectionist and got me into Fight Club for free. I saw it by myself and loved it. I found out about the books, and I now have them all. But who doesn't?

I was at my Web Design class and it was a Friday so my instructor decided to put in a movie. That movie was Fight Club, I had no idea what it was at first so I just kinda watched, then it got more involved and I fell in love. I went out and bought the DVD that day.

I didn't see FC in theaters because I hated Brad Pitt. Then I
rented it and realized I made a mistake. I new it was based on a
book but didn't explore it. I think I was on amazon.com looking
for Bret Easton Ellis books and I clicked on those "similar titles"
links. A bunch of Chuck's books came up. Later I saw Invisible
Monsters in a store, read it, and loved it.

No big surprise here - the movie. I was hyped to see the movie from the first teaser trailer that I saw. Then I saw it. Then again. Then one more time while it was still in theaters.

It just so happens that this was at the same time that I was getting pretty much disgusted with most of my life and I also wanted to start reading more than I had been. You can pretty much guess the rest. A quick trip to the bookstore (one of the few times I've paid full price for a book) and I was on my way.

After reading all the above replies, 'Fight Club' the movie made the world a different place today than the book alone ever could have done. Makes me wonder how many people out there who saw the film even read anything, not to mention the illiterate ones. I got no hassle with dumb people, and I count some real idiots as acquaintances throughout my short life, but the fact that mongoloids see the film and misinterpret its meaning doesn't even seem to matter as the only thing that counts is that awareness is raised in any way, shape or form... and if that means educating the moronic masses than I'm all for it, hell, I count myself among their ilk. We can't all be smart I 'spose...

... and that is a pretty damn inspirational interview in Poets and Writers Magazine, osowretched. I finally got around to reading it on this site and like most of his interviews, he's chock full o' interesting ideas...

I Chuck in a men's bathroom. He was cool. Not wierded out that I peeked at his wang. Let me tell you...it's SMALL!

I remember hearing about Choke, hearing good things that is. Soon after I picked it up and I've been "hooked" ever since.

I even saw Fight Club but read it last out of all his books.

It's funny, I've talked enough about my past experiences with discovering Chuck and starting the website. But I barley ever mention my first encounter with this all. It's in my [url=http://www.chuckpalahniuk.net/fcmovie/myreview.htm]Fight Club Review[/url], but let me talk about it here too.

I had heard a rumor on the web about David Fincher's next project after THE GAME. He had supposedly acquired one of the hottest scripts floating around Hollywood by some new writer named Jim Uhls. The script was called 'The Fight Club." (back then, everyone called it that)

Anyway, I had no idea that this hot script about some underground boxing club was actually an adaptation of a novel until I walked into Borders Books and Music one day. (maybe early '97 or so). And there, on the table of trade paperbacks was a book called "Fight Club". It wasn't until I glanced at the back of the book that I confirmed that this was in fact, the source material the screenplay was adapted from.

(this was this cover)

[img]http://www.chuckpalahniuk.net/books/fightclub/covers/us_trade_small.gif[/img]

Being a fan of David Fincher's, I was immediately intruiged. And so I had moviemaking pal, Kevin, put it on hold for me. (at that time, he worked in the Music section upstairs at Borders). The book sat there for about a few months or so in Kevin's hold pile. Then one day, while bored at work, Kevin began reading the first few pages of the book. He told me it was pretty damn good and that I should definitely come back and actually buy it this time.

I did.

And I couldn't get into it. Mind you, at that time I think I was reading your standard Stephen King novel... so Chuck's style through me for a loop. I got about a third into it and put it down. And then Amy picked it up and blew through it. Then she gave it to my friend Josh and HE TOO blew through it.

Now I felt like a retard. And so I came back to it and read it from the start again. This time it was easy. Already the style was growing on me and I felt stupid for not realizing how fun and unique it was the first time.

And then, a few months later the orange hardcovered version of Survivor was released. I was working still at B. Dalton with Amy and we were both very pissed off when our store didn't receive any copies of it for our inventory. So Amy special ordered it.

Unlike Fight Club, I blew through Survivor in one shot. And with Invisible Monsters not due out for close to two years, all I could do was go back and read Fight Club again. Luckily, while visiting a friend in San Francisco, I found a 1st edition hardcover in a store on Telegraph Ave. I read it in one sitting on the flight home.

Come 1999, Invisible Monsters got released late summer/early fall sometime..... Fight Club the movie was due out in October.... and we got to meet Chuck on tour while he visited New York City to promote Monsters.

The rest is history...

being a Fincher fan i knew about the hot "The Fight Club Script" ... than there was this [url]www.fightclub.com[/url] site that informed me of the book. I saw Fight Club on opening night.... fell in love with the ideas.... read the book....

God was that a feeling...... back than when nobody knew of Fight Club..... it felt so good and great..... and personal.... just was an integral factor of my youth.

My brother had told me about Fight Club and how awesome it was, but i was skeptical. Then a couple months later he bought it on DVD and i took it from him and watched it with one of my friends. During the movie i was thinking "how in hell does this all go together" but in the end i was literally cheering outloud. The next day i made some more of my friends come over to watch it. Then i talked to my brother about it and he said that it was a book. I never liked reading, but i decided since i love the movie so much i would steal the book from him and read it. Once i was finished i made my friends read it and ive been hooked ever since.

I, like many others, saw fight club opening night, and loved it. So I looked into who wrote it, and came across Chuck. Started reading his stuff then, loved it ever since.

i used to work at the movie theatres, and i have been having trouble sleeping for two weeks. A Co-worker says we got this movie in thats really good about this guy who can't sleep. When i watched it i was blown away. I must have seen it like 7 or 8 times at least in the theatres.

So two months later, im at a smashing pumpkins signing in san fransisco at the virgin megastore. I see the book in one the racks, so i picked it up because i liked the movie so much, and it all goes from there..
survivor,
choke,
then invisable monsters.

Im still trying to borrow a copy of lullaby, i cant afford it yet. =[

2 years ago I was looking for something completely different than anything I'd ever read before, and I was in this little, independant book store and asked this really cool employee who his favorite author was - he showed me invisible monsters, by chuck. I sat in there all afternoon, almost finishing the book, I was so entranced I had to buy it so I could take it home and finish. The next day I went back and grabbed survivor, fight club and waited for the Choke book tour so that I could by and get my copy and have it signed too. I've got his entire collection and treasure them all.

I saw Fight Club. I bought Lullaby. Read it. Bought Survivor. Read it. Borrowed Invisible Monsters and Choke. Read them. Bought Fight Club. Reading it.

These are the last five books I've looked at.

A co-worker came in the morning after he saw Fight Club in the theatre, practically running up to me to tell me that I MUST see it. I had zero interest in seeing Brad Pitt beating up yuppies for 2 hours, so I told him I'd pass. He insisted that wasn't what it was about, but when I pressed him for details all he would say is, "I can't tell you - you just have to go." So I promptly forgot all about it. God bless him for not blowing it for me...

My boyfriend brought the DVD home one night, and everything just clicked during the Human Sacrifice scene. ("Stuff? Were the midterms hard?) 6 months later I bought the book as a breakup gift to myself, got my ass back in school, and never looked back.

I'm a voracious reader, and so surprised that Chuck eluded me for all that time, but once I found his work I was addicted!

What a great question. It's the Chucky P Fan's nostalgic appeal equivalent of mulling over the memory of your first kiss.

Well, like many of you, I too saw the movie Fight Club first, without any knowledge that it was adapted from a book. I thought the movie was a revelation, many of its ideas really grabbed me, but being more a cinephilic fan of David Fincher I didn't bother to investigate its literary origins.

Fast forward a couple years later. I take a really awesome creative writing class and find a cool community of like-minded people. I was hanging with this one guy whose literary sensibilities I trusted and whose writing I respected (okay, he was *hot* too) and one day when he was walking me home across campus I noticed a book tucked under his arm. Always hungry for new reading, I asked what it was--and it turned out to be Survivor, which he pointed out was written by the author of Fight Club. He raved about it & urged me to read it, so next time I was out trolling the bookstores, I looked up Palahniuk and because Choke was at that time new in paperback it was all over and I bought that one first.

Not long after I was, unfortunately, in an accident and was relegated to bed rest from the resulting injury. I fortunately, however, finally had some time to read. I devoured Choke immediately and was just blown away. It was so funny and ballsy and yet had this emotional truth at its core. I decided I'd read the book behind the movie Fight Club, and loved that even more. Then I read Survivor, then Invisible Monsters, all in a total frenzy in a single week (thank God for Amazon). I freaked myself out, how fervidly into Chucky P's writing I was: just when I thought one book was my favorite, there was another--I still hesitate to finger just one as my ultimate. I deliberately forced myself to read some other books after my one-week spree (but few other authors have made the same impact) and am still withholding the pleasure of Lullaby. I think I find it comforting that there's still something for me to look forward to. I almost fear reading it, like it would be end--even though I know there's still Period Revival (Diary?) to look forward to, and hopefully much more in the future.

How I discovered Chuck.

I saw Fight Club when it was already showing on Showtime and HBO. The only reason I saw it was because it had the word "Fight" in the title, and it has Pitt saying, "I want you to hit me as hard as you can."

I saw it. Truthfully, I didn't like it.

I believed that I was "a unique and perfect snowflake."

A year passed, and I completely forgot about Fight Club. One day, I saw it in the DVD section of my local Wal-Mart, and decided to buy it. (Don't know why, just had a cool looking cover-type thing. Packaged.)

Saw it, and the second time around, it had the most substancial impact on me than anything else has up to that point in my life. For the next 9 months almost, I watched it almost every other day. Slowly decreasing in times, but still watched it.

Fast forward to January 2003. My sister gave me the book for Christmas. I read it in 2 days.

Wow.

Well, my mates sister lent him a film (being Fight Club) we watched it and got completely lost and baffled as we weren't really paying attention, but still enjoyed it. A year later it comes on Sky, i watch it again, fall in love with all the ideals and generally become smitted. A few months having brought FC on DVD and talking to my cousin abpout it he says his g/f is reading the book and it's slightly different...not even knowing it was a book i rush to town, read the first page about how a silencer works and decide it has to be purchased asap. I go home to check the price on Amazon, spot he has another 3 books (this was before Lullaby) and buy them all and read them in a couple of weeks, and now a year later I'm re-reading them.

Chuck is truly excellent, he is what our generation needs to get young males looking at books again.

Rob

I saw the movie on video (I thought the preview made it look really bad...ah, I was but a fool), but didn't see the part on the credits saying it was based upon a novel.

A few months later (October 2000), I got a job at Barnes and Noble, and while setting up the store (it was a new one in Asheville), I was unpacking a box of books that had Fight Club in it, and so when we opened, I bought it...and immediately ordered Survivor and Invisible Monsters. Since then, I've not missed a release date for his other two novels, and was thrilled to see him when he came to the Chapel Hill campus bookstore this past October (2k2).

Farrell

hi,

this is my first time here. v. excited. and i was definitely looking to share my "conversion story," so it was great to see this thread already here.

as a confirmed bibliophile (i need a twelve-step program, really), i had never been able to settle on one particular author or book as my favorite. until i read choke. obviously i got into this late, but hey. i live in the suburbs--it's my lot in life. when i read choke, i felt like my entire brain had been torn from my cranium, scrambled like an egg, and thrown back in. i walked around disoriented for days. i then proceeded to buy every book with chuck's name on it, read invisible monsters, and then took them to be signed at a reading he did in cambridge. wanting to savor each book, i waited a while before reading survivor, and finally got to fight club just a couple of days ago. i wanted to save it for last so that a) i wouldn't be "jumping on the bandwagon" quite so much and i wanted to save the reputed best for last. i had been utterly stupefied by the other novels, but fight club was easily, far and away, the best novel i have ever read. i read it in one sitting from midnight to 4 am, and didn't glance up or take a break once. then i immediately started reading it again. i've read it three times in the past two days, and i bought the dvd, which i've watched twice.

i've been like this before about a rock star--trent reznor--but never about an author. i've found my idol. chuckie p. is the MASTER.

my long and boring story is, not being a big brad pitt fan, i pretty much ignored the previews. comletely forgot about them. then, a year later, i was in this theater class, and for the final project these two guys did the airplane scene from fight club. so i though, hey, this is pretty cool, so i g and rent the movie. i go home and watch it. and watch it again. and again. and again. dont really realize that its based ona book. a few months later in english class, we have to read four books by an american author. someone wrote "chuck palahniuk, author of Fight Club" on the board. at this point, i realize that i've been stupid all along for not realizing it was based on a book. so that day i go out and try to find a copy of fight club. my search is unsuccessful, so i end up reading choke, which i found at the library. then i realize that chuck palahniuk is more of a genius than i first realized, and go out and buy survivor and invisible monsters. then i read fight club, and decide its even better than the movie. by the time lullaby was published, i was completely hooked. i went to see chuck at this theater in boston and got my books signed. since then, i've acquired the fight club dvd, poster, and soap(it was a birthday present). i cant wait until fugitives and refugees is in stores.

i saw fight club, but never really knew it was adapted from a book..........my friend read the book and loved it.........i noticed she was reading it and i asked her about it...........she eventually did a book project on survivor, and i bought it over the summer and adored it.........she got me to read invisible monsters and i was amazed at how awesome it is..........i got lullabye for xmas and i finished it in one sitting and i was so bored (cuz i was at work......my job is worthless) and i seriously considered reading it again.....................yah, my story is boring, but i LOVE CHUCK PALAHNIUK............and of course, so does my friend who started me on it.........we walk around book stores and end up in the "p" section in fiction..........we try to get everyone in our english class to read chuck, but after describing the plot of invisible monsters, my teacher decided to be nasty and refuse to let us read any more of his work and we can't even mention his name..............ah well.........he's my new favorite author.............his work is amazing..............

Rented the video when it came out here and was blown away immediatly.

I've got a group of Neo-Nazi's to thank for my discovery of Chuck.

No, really.

I found American History X in the Video Shop and got it out cos for some reason I have this fascination with all things Nazi. (It baffles me y'see. I just really wanna try and understand why anyone could be so bigoted and racist - I still don't get it) Anyway, the film, and Edward Norton in particular blew me away. I had to stop the film to cry in the middle of it (that bit with the guy and the pavement - if you've seen it, you'll know the scene I mean) and I cried for 20 minutes after it. Yeah it had it's faults and it's slightly unbelievable at times, but jesus christ did it affect me.

And so, a fully fledged Edward Norton fanatic I became. and thank god for it too. I doubt very much whether I'd have gone to see Fight Club if he hadn't been in it. The way it was marketed was so wrong it wasn't true. I, and everyone else I know, assumed all it was about was boxing and testosterone - shocker, not our scene. Anyway, I loved it and it gave us something to discuss all night after seeing it - the ambiguous ending especially.

So, next day, I went to a bookstore and read the final chapter to find out what the hell happened (I'd noticed the 'based on a novel' comment at the start). Intrigued, I bought it... read it... bought Survivor... read it... bought Invisible Monsters... read it... bought Choke... read it... bought Lullaby... read it. Somewhere in the middle I also managed to get another 5 folk to read Survivor (they all LOVED it) and my friend now texts me a random Chuck P quotes from back in the UK every few days!

And it's only the beginning...

I remember seeing the "Fight Club" trailer before a movie (I'm pretty sure it was "The Sixth Sense"), and was completely annoyed.

"They just wanted another excuse to make that hack (Brad Pitt) go shirtless..."

The movie came out, lots of my friends went to see it and raved, I turned a deaf ear and changed the subject every time.

Then, one night just before the movie was due to be released on DVD, a former roommate who'd just moved into my apartment complex had me over for dinner and out of nowhere, started talking about how he "envied" me. Being that 've never held a lease, don't have a drivers' liscence, and always worked interchangable McJobs of some sort or another, while he earned good money and had been living on his own for the most part for over five years... I didn't get it, and told him as much.

He let it drop, but he kept saying random things here and there that showed he'd been thinking about a lot of things recently and he just seemed "different" somehow. i wondered what was the cause of all of it, but didn't feel i should ask.

As I was about to leave, he brought out the book and said I had to read it. i was hesitant, and a little squeamish, to be honest. I told him about my reaction to the trailer and he just calmly told me that it wasn't what I thought it was, but I really had to read it.

So i took it home, and avoided it for a while... it wsn't untill one day when I was rushing out to catch the bus for work and realized I didn't have anything to read that I grabbed it out of desperation and stuck into my backpack. I'd been having kind of a bad go of things, and didn't think anyone else could see it. I was frustrated with just about everything and every day as I left for my bus, I fought the urge to dive into the pool with all my clothes on, just for the hell of it. I needed a way to make sense of it all, and in that first twenty-three minute bus ride, I knew I'd found as close as I was capable of. I knew *right away* why he'd been so insistent, and I carried it *everywhere* for the next couple of weeks (I actually read it twice back to back... just because I felt I had to). Especially sweet to me were the moments I'd steal a couple of pages while at work, serving snotty women with their (ex-)husbands' credit cards and bad attitudes, and the moment that really just seems to define my affinity for all the books now:

I'd gone to the apartment complex's workout room to put in some time on one of the bikes and sat there for some time, reading the book as I peddaled before realizing that everyone else in the room was a chiseled, frat-boy jock type, and they were all watching some horrid WB melodrama called "Popular" while I, being a short and chubby chick with freakish hair, was reading this book.

i don't know... it was a moment, and just seemed so *perfect* that I doubt I'd ever be able to forget it...

Afterwards, I finally saw the movie and was just blown away... i'd thought they couldn't do the book justice, but they had (and being a huge Edward Norton fan probably didn't hurt either...)

Anyway, fast forward a couple of years. I'd moved and had been working in a bookstore for a few months when i see this white book with an anotomical diagram facing my position at the register. To be honest, it kind of creeped me out, but in such a way that I felt I just had to see what it was about. When I picked it up and saw it was by the same author, and that he'd written other books (yeah, I worked in a bookstore and never thought to check, I suck), I grabbed them all and bought them on the spot.

I lost touch with the former roommate after one or both of us moved the next time, so I'll probably never know if he's read any of the others, but I'll always be thankful that he "forced" me to read "Fight Club". The funny thing is that he had a small "Fight Club" shrine of sorts in his hallway, and now I have a Chuckie P shrine of my own... birds of a feather, I suppose...

Loved David Fincher's films, heard he was directing a film with two of my favorite actors, and the book it was based on had a cool title, so I read it a few months before Fight Club opened. It was, needless to say, an amazing book. Then I read Survivor, and was blown away. FC the film and Invisible Monsters followed, intensifying my feelings for Chuck's work (and Fincher's), and then for both Choke and Lullaby I was counting the days, as I'm sure so many were.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by froshkrovvy [/i]
[B]Are you familiar w/ douglas Coupland? [/B][/QUOTE]

Oooohhhh yes.

Chuckie P
Douglas Coupland
Bret Easton Ellis

my holy trinity of authors.

I actually had to force myself to read the last seven pages of "All Families Are Psychotic", because I found myself loving the characters so much, I didn't want to say good-bye.

Fell in love with the trailer for Fight Club, couldnt wait to see the movie so i bought the book and read it quickly then got my mom to check me out of school on 10/15/99 to see the first showign of Fight Club.

Gen X was a good novel, what should I read next by Coupland?

Coupland's last book, "All Families Are Psychotic", was without a doubt my favorite book to be released in 2001. It takes a severely dysfunctional family peopled by characters that in summary sound absolutely ridiculous and awful, but makes you care for them and truly want them to be happy. That's not something I usually find, even when I'm "supposed" to like them.

"Shampoo Planet", on the other hand... I still go back to re-reading that when i want to really think about what love is and why we're so desperate for it. Then again, it was the first Coupland I read, so it may just be sentiment.

(Thanks be I've only read "A Clockwork Orange" once... I've a terible habit of speaking like the characters of the books I read... be thankful I finished myyearly re-read of "Anne Of Green Gables" last month. )

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by froshkrovvy [/i]
[B]Nobody ever gets my Douglas Coupland allusions though..... [/B][/QUOTE]

Do you plan to spend your grandchildren's inheritence?

Got into his work after seeing Fight Club in the big screen with some friends. Just like many others, I suppose...

There was me, that is Brock, and my three droogs, that is Chuck P., Tyler D. and Jacky-Jack. And we sat in the Korova Milkbar, trying to make up our razudoks what to do with the evening, Lou's Tavern? Globby Arse Rendering for cleanliness and cleansiosity soapa?. The Korova Milkbar sold milk-plus... milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom or paraffin, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and get you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence, Fight Club that be to thems that waits. We were all feeling a bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it being a night of no small expenditure, Chucky P. discovery convo's and all. Well, well, well! Welly welly welly welly well... if it isn't fat stinking goat Bitch Tits Bob in poison! How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap stinking donut oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if ya have any yarble, ya eunuch jelly thou! Looky see, it be Marla now, and the first thing that flashed into my gulliver was that I'd like to have her right down there on the floor of bloodied basement with the old in-out in-out, real savage. Ludwig Von do I 'ear? Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a space monkey's birdsnest, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures! Back space monkey! Yarbles! Great bolshy yarblockos to you. I'll meet you with chain or nozh or britva anytime. I'm not having you aiming tolchocks at me reasonless. It stands to reason, I won't have it, not even from Hessel. It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the Fincher screen. Doobiedoob, a bit tired maybe, best not to say more. Bedways is rightways now, so best we go homeways and get a bit of spatchka. Right-right? But then I viddied that thinking is for the gloopy ones and the oomny ones use, like, inspiration and what Bog sends. For now it was lovely pengy-chakra music that came to my aid, there was a window open with the stereo on and I viddied right at once what to do. What we were after now was the old surprise visit, a bit of the mischief mayhem-like. That was a real kick and good for laughs and lashings of the old ultraviolence. Viddy well, little brother. Viddy well emasculated brothers, as me duranga vert '03 purred away a real horrowshow. A nice warm vibraty feeling all through your guttiwuts! I was cured, all right...

Thanks Odd-Reigh, I'll put All Families on my list of next Coupland to read, then.

The trailer did what it did. Made you think its another movie.

It was New Year's, I'm guessing Happy 2K, someone brought FC, Sleepy Hollow and a third pirated VHS tape to the 'party'.

You haven't seen Fight Club unless you are stoned and the tape copy is so bad every face is a big blob of pastel colors and its all been recorded on a Japanese camcorder in a theater near you.

For the first half hour, I was muttering, eyes red and drowning vodka, 'this is not Fight Club. Fight Club is where Brad Pitt fights!'.

Then it hit me. A combo of vodka, canabis, crappy VHS copy, my best friends around me and the Y2K Bug frenzy hanging in the air. It did it all.

A year later, I managed to get the book.

Fight Club and Sleepy Hollow both at New Year's, and crappy pirated copies, no less. Pure joy, wish I could have been there. It's funny, I just finished watching Sleepy Hollow again about an hour ago, before reading your post.

I watched and loved Fight Club. Read the book a while later, but didn't even think to see if the author had any other books. About a year after that a friend told me I should get Invisible Monsters. I read it in 2 days and fell in love with CP. Then bought Survivor, Choke, and about died waiting on Lullaby, and am now dying again waiting for his next one.

I've had favorite books, but never a favorite author. I'm usually more interested in specific books because so many authors' talent (for me at least) is too sporadic. They write one book that's REALLY good, and then some crappy ones, then maybe another good one. But Chuck is so awesome, I almost couldn't believe how lucky I was to find books so good.

i'm a huge nine inch nails/trent reznor, chuck's a trent reznor fan... throw david carson in there and you cover the best three aspects of art, and somehow they all enjoy one another's work.

Hey people, just a quick post sharing my thoughts:

It's pretty obvious that most people discovered Chuck through the FC movie (me for one) and it made me realise just how badly marketed new books are. Obviously they can't afford to spend as much on marketing a book as a film because it will never recover the costs but clearly something must be done to improve the general publics awareness of new books, authors and the fact that there are people like Chuck, Bret, Douglas etc out there that could bring teenagers back intom reading. As far as I'm concerned schools are the biggest problem. Even now when someone says the word "book" I think of Romeo & Juliet, impossible dialect intense boredom, essays etc etc

Clearly schools can't give a 12 year boy a copy of Choke to read over the weekend, but surely by 16 they can...hell a 5 year old could buy it in the shops so they couldn't really be criticised.

I look forward to the day when someone says "Hey, you READ fight club? It's great. Apparently there's a film of it with Bradd Pitt or something but I can't be bothered to watch it"

Rob

Few years back when Fight Club was still coming on the pay per view channels(I was stupid and easily influenced at 12 years old.) My olderbrother and I ordered it and watched it. I loved it, obviously.
I had no idea it was a book really. But a few years go by and i forget all about Fight Club.
about 4 years and alot of crap books later(harry potter, titan a.e the book, stuff big brother is singing and dancing telling me to read, ect.) and I'm just another kid in school.
Anyway, about 2 months back, my history teacher tells me he's reading a new book, Fight Club. I say, hey, that was a book? and yeah, he said it is. My best friend and I read it after him. Chuck Palahniuk is now my favorite writer. I read Fight Club in one night. I read lullaby, choke, survivor, and I'm currently reading invisible monsters.
I can't say I've ever had this much to say about anything, sorry, didn't mean to write a novel here...
Chuck Palahniuk is by far the greatest writer I've ever heard of. Nothing he says is meaningless. Every last line of every last book has a new philosophy(blasphemy, anarchy?)

Chuck...you're the best.

i went to a party, sometime in 2000, and one of my friends was carrying around this book. it was choke, and she made me read a few pages somewhere in the middle. i did, and thought it was great. i wrote down his name on a little piece of paper, put it in my pocket, and lost it later.
soon after, she found out i had not viewed fight club, and immediately and justifiably berated me for not doing so.
so one day i rented it, and was basically jumping up and down at the perfection of such a movie afterwards, calling her to thank her for making me watch such a life-altering movie. i watched it over and over again for the remainder of the day.
the next day i bought survivor.

i had an 8 hour flight to england, so i looked for a book at the airport book store. picked up fight club, and survivor. came back from the trip with a new favorite author

I asked the King for 3 ships and promised a new route to India in return....