How did you discover Chuck?

Through my boyfriend.......I needed a new genre of reading material and he suggested I read Survivor....so I did...........that was over 3 years ago, and since then I've been hooked

I saw the movie a few years ago and loved it. Then throught he years I heard several people say how good the book Fight Club was. When I had the chance to do an essay for school I picked Fight Club, and loved it. Now I can say Chucky P is my favorite author

I watched fight club, then heard the commentary and they said it was a book.

How did I discover Chuck?

In the library with the candlestick.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by SecretAsianMan [/i]
[B]Fight Club was a 10th grade reading assignment for me. [/B][/QUOTE]

Lucky bastard. They made me read 60 year-old books with a crudely drawn penis on every 3rd page when I was in school.

I have actually never read anything by Chuck. I saw an interview with him once, he read from his book Fight Club. The style of writing captured me. It's like music, it has rithm, stacatto.
It's sometimes revolting, which I like also.

so..are you gonna read anything by Chuck?
Why are you here?(No offence)

I recomended "Post Office" by Charles Bukowski to a friend. He finished it in a week and loved it. He then told me, "I think you'd really like Chuck Palahniuk. Read 'Choke'."
So, I did. He was right.
Thanks Matt! Now join this fuckin' site all ready!

I discovered Chuck in Walden Books in the Haywood Mall in Greenville, SC. I was browsing the fiction section looking for something different to read. I had been reading alot of Stephen King and Anne Rice and needed a new refreshing read instead of something dark and depressing. well I found it in the book Choke, the first novel I had ever read by Chuck....I read the book in a record three days and then went out and bought survivor and ever since then I've been a fan.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by mungkay [/i]
[B]Lucky bastard. They made me read 60 year-old books with a crudely drawn penis on every 3rd page when I was in school. [/B][/QUOTE] I always wondered what happened to those.

Oh yeah, forgot to mention...
A) He stopped me on the street when I was on my way to an Ani DiFranco concert. I don't know why I felt the need to share that with you.

My mother just started 'Choke'. She likes Agatha Christie. I hope she likes it.

I was a punk as 19 year old and in my local book superstore chain. back in thae Day as we used to call it then I was a little thief. I saw this hardback book under the new titles and it had this weird cover (I didn't realize it was soap even after I read the book, it took me until after my friends read it as I remember) so it's called Fight Club and I think, hmmmm.... intresting. I open it up and Tylers ahoving a gun itno a guy's mouth after getting him a job as a waiter. their on top of a building that's going to blow up, and, at this point in my life any thing I can fit on my person is free.... so out I go with Fight Club. I read it, I love it, I loan it to all my friends. They read it, they love it. then the karmic dog bites me in the ass for being the thief I am because I loan it to one friend and he gives it away to some girl he likes as a birthday gift. I get the tradepaperback a year later in return. Either way I discover this great new author and come out ahead. Chuck writes in a book he signs for me:
"Stop stealing books and get laid!"
and mails me a plush squirrel.
my storry has a happy ending.

Being as it could have involved the authorities and I might've gotten busted for swiping a Neil Pollack book, I think I did alright.

For the Dickens in me I can't remember how or when I discovered Chuck. That's so weird. Maybe he was always there?

A close friend of mine who knows I'm an avid reader told me I might enjoy CP's stuff. That was last October, and I read Choke first. I couldn't wait to get my hands on everything else, so next came Lullaby, Invisible Monsters, Diary, Survivor, Fight Club and finally Fugitives & Refugees. Invisible Monsters has been my absolute favorite, hands down....

following what seems to have been a trend i wasn't aware of, i waited for Fight Club to come out on video before i saw it. i was a freshman in highschool that year and one of the first times i ever got drunk i started telling my friends how kick ass the movie was, but in my new found drunken stupor i couldn't really explain it and they weren't listening. so - no shit here guys - i go "hey, watch this" and upper cutted myself and fell backwards off of this porch kind of thing that's really only like 6 inches off the ground. naturally, i had their attention then and went on and on about what a great movie it was. that story made its way around school for a couple years before a friend of mine informed me that it was based on a book. around that same time i'd read [I]Equus[/I] and fallen in love with reading and so i picked up Fight Club, quickly followed by everything else Chuck had in print.

Well basically...After seeing the movie about a bazillion times it finally came to my attention that it actually originally was a book [yup, I'm THAT clueless]
From that point on I just did whatever I had too to read everything he has ever written.
And I don't regret a single thing.

one day in school i skipped my drafting class with my frien mary so we could go to the library to steal a book on chess for our friend Nicole. After stealing the book, we sat outside the building our class was in just talking. I ended up mentioning Fight Club to her and she mentioned Chucky P. and Choke. She told me it was a great book and that I should read it. So I did. Then I read Lullaby. Then Survivor. Then Fight Club. Then Invisible Monsters, which is my all time favorite. I have yet to read Diary and Can't wait for Stranger Than Fiction...

Thanks Mary.

P.S. I mentioned Mary in the letter I wrote to Chuck back in December. One of the things he sent me back was a stocking full of candy. In HIS letter to me he told me," Share the booty with Mary!" He fucking rawks.

I saw a documentary of Chuck on tv once, he read some of his work in this documentary and told the stories about his father. I was immediately struck by the sharpness and the humor of his writing. He also read from his short story guts which almost let me fall out of my chair; very grose but also very comical.
I haven't read one of his books yet, I have fight club and choke laying ready to be read but, I have to finish another book (the Quincunx, Charles Palliser)first.