I know it's none of my business, but...

Yes.

Though I'm sure he gets naff-all from being quoted by Panic.

No. If you want to be pretty high on the financial scale, you have to do something that makes an impact in the way people go about their lives, or create something that cons old women into handing over their social security checks, not just write a few books that have a small (although dedicated) following. Chuck is probably doing alright for himself, though.

Well, I guess it depends how you define high up on the financial scale. He's no Bill Gates, but I'd say he's probably made enough not to have to pop out another book ever again.

If he stopped writing today he could probably go along doing special events and stuff for a few years before people get tired of talking about Fight Club all the time and wondering why he hasn't written anything new in years, and then they forget about him entirely, and he gets some money each time someone options one of his books to make into a film that never ends up getting made, and that money would last for a bit, but I doubt he's got enough that he could just walk away.

Grammatically horribly incorrect, that sentance was.

I guess it depends on how much you need to live on each year. He seems like he has a pretty low-key existence up in Portland, or wherever he is now. Anyway - I didn't think I'd ever get drawn on a conversation about how much cash Palahniuk makes! I'm going into investment banking.

This thread has the worst title ever. If you know it's none of your business, don't be rude and keep it to yourself. Considering Fight Club was his first novel, I doubt he got a brilliant publishing deal. But I can go to most independant book stores around here and they'll have a few of his books in, and for an author who's fiction, for want of a better term, is quite transgressive, that's definately remarkable.

god your a bitch correllion, I like it! I'm actually surprised people are still buying chucks books, and i doubt he's rich enough to retire, but i'm sure he has a nice apartment, and newish appliances, plus he belongs to a two income household although i have no idea what his boyfriend does for a living and thats definately not my business.

i bet Chuck's got enough money for a gold-plated toilet
or if not that, at least an ivory umbrella stand

Jonathan Ross is obsessed by japanese toilets. He always talks to his guests about his electric toilet with a seat-warmer. But Adam Sandler shot him down with a toilet than sings so you don't hear the poo go - plop plop - whilst you're on it.

westerners are obsessed with poopy,although the asians go overboard with the recepticles.

I need one with a seat warmer...Those Japanese toilets sure are spiffy.

I actually think Chuck is pretty well off, because he said in an interview about how he often used to think of things in his life in terms of money, and he said now that he has it, he's glad he's not thinking in those same terms, or something along those lines. He's obviously not a wasteful guy, but he doesn't seem to be 'purposely' cheap either.