Do you remember your first Chuck book?

[QUOTE=morey;960843]My first chuck book was the under-appreciated [I]Patchwork Granny[/I], the story of a big breasted mannish hill woman eeking out a living as a stars map seller in the beverly hills flats, this book moved me and inspired me so much its why i reloacted to L.A. and attended film school, just like granny, but also just like the granny after years of struggle and strife i ended up spit out the bottom of the porn industry! So thanks but no thanks Chuck for [I]Patchwork Granny.[/I][/QUOTE]

I bet this is his next novel.

I started with "Fight Club" as the film had just come out and at the time, I wasn't old enough to see it, but I remembered seeing the great trailer that they put out for it.
With this in mind I picked it up, when I saw it in my local bookstore and just remember being totally blown away by it, not only because of the story and it's characters but the writing style aswell, which I found similar to Bret Easton Ellis (who I also adore).

After Fight Club I became obsessed and read "Choke", then "Survivor" and "Invisable Monsters".
I put off reading "Lullaby" as the blurb on the back, didn't really grab me, but ended up being suprised by how good it was. I skiped Diary after reading so many negative reviews and bought "Haunted" stright away in Hardback (theres only certain authors I'll buy in this format) and loved it.
I Finally Read "Diary" a few months back, which was pretty ho hum and a rare miss for Chuck.
Now just have to read "Rant" which I will as soon as I finish "Clown Girl" so its currently taunting me from the side table.

I saw the cover of Haunted in the bookstore, it looked awesome, then I saw Fight Club, I knew that name. Within the next few days I came back and bought it. Finished it. Bought Diary, loved it, especially all the art history. Then I bought Haunted, liked the stories, not the storyline. Survivor. Choke. Invisible Monsters. Lullaby. Now Rant.

i read fight club first, but i have no recollection of my first reading of it. one year in high school, my english teacher bought everyone in the class a book he thought theyd like based on their personality. he got me fight club and immediately after, the movie came out. i loveloveloved the movie and saw it a bunch of times (still my favorite movie)...and because of the close proximity, i dont even remember that first time i read it.

the first thing by chuck that i remember reading is survivor. i couldnt put it down. finished in a day...and i was hooked.

I met this dude that lived his strange several lives (he had two seperate isolated identities going at the time) and swore on the book Fight Club. Something about "don't waste time." He treated it like Ulysses. So: watched the movie, liked that, and read the book, liked that even more. Few months later I'm in a slump and I read Choke. Then Diary, Survivor, and move onto Clevenger and Baer for a while and then Haunted.

Now Rant.

In 2001 my brother suggested Survivor to me, so I read it within a few days. I fell inlove with it. I started reading it at a tough time, and it really helped. I then read Choke, and the rest of Palahniuk's works.

My first Chuck book had to be Fight Club; two weeks after watching the movie, I remember reasearching finding out it was a book first.

From cover-to-cover it flowed; it felt like poetry, his writing. Finished it in three days. I remember thinking to myself:
"You can do that? Write sentence fragments? Give napalm ingredients?"
I was in complete shock & awe.

Then I put it down, waited a couple of months and read it again, once again being amazed by its poetic structure and stream-of-consciousness.

Before Chuck, I've read Edgar Allen Poe, and Romantic Novels where the female narrarator would go into specifics of her sexual encounter, nothing creative just heavy stuff. Being a youngster -- it's the closest you can get that isn't Playboy.

But Chuck basically showed me that not everything has been done, although originality and the fact that there isnt any in this world is one of his themes, I took that to heart. The fact that you can break rules. Oh, yeah and finding individuality had a strong influence as well.

My first Chuck experience was Haunted which is probably why i love it so.
Might read it again soon....

Although i had read fight club dozens of times i consider Survivor to really be my first chuck book. It had finally dawned on me after about my twelth read through of fight club that there was a posibility that the guy had written somehting else, so i went out to barens and noble and read through that back descriptions of all his books and finally decided to go with survivor. By the time i got to the line "A woman calls to ask what time the late movie starts. Kill yourself." I had decided that I had to read everything chuck had ever written. Im glad i went with survivor cause if i had picked diary by chance i would nevert have read any of his other books and would have never tried writing myself.

I found Lullaby in a closet at my Grandmother's house. Took it home because she said it was disgusting, read it, and bam.

i think i read survivor first. i didnt know which book to start with so my gf mailed me survivor while i was out of bootcamp. it wasnt his best but i was hooked to read all of the rest.

When I was 12, I was looking at my friend's profile on some website and on it she said she liked "anything by Chuck Palahniuk: Invisible Monsters, Fight Club..."

I had never heard of him so I looked him up on amazon. Then I went to my local library and checked out all the Palahniuk books they had. Invisible monsters was the first book I read and was immediately hooked. I brought it to my english class during the first few days of school and while I was reading it, my teacher started yelling at me. She had read CP in college I believe, and said that his books weren't age appropriate and that I was too young to be reading them. She wanted me to write a thesis on human beauty for reading Invisible Monsters. She also told me not to read anymore of his books. But, you see, whenever someone tells me I can't do something, I'm tempted to do it even more. So, I ignored her disapproval and continued to go through his books, most of which really were unsuitable for an 8th grader. I even used some of them for my book reports, which she wasn't too pleased about and led to more yelling. I never did write that thesis either.

That was a year ago. In the end, that teacher gave up and accepted my new found love of Palahniuk. Now, the two if us discuss his writing and all that other fun stuff in a friendly manner.

did you go to a religious school or something? It just seems weird to me that a regular teacher would yell at anybody for actually reading a book when it's so hard to get them to read at all.

It's not so hard to recall my first Chuck book since I only started reading him last year. It began with Fight Club. I remember being in a state of confusiion at first. I was like, "what the fuck is the guy up to?" since I hadn't seen the film yet. It took me about a week to finish it. I bought Invisible Monsters along with FC. A close friend of mine who is a much greater Chuck fan than I am told me not to read two Palahniuk novels in a row. I defied that by reading Invisible Monsters. I finished that novel in record time since I enjoyed it so much. The consequence is that I don't remember much from it since Fight Club was still in my head. Lesson learned.

After reading a couple of required books for English class I proceeded to read Choke, but my bookmark is still halfway in and hasn't moved since October. I plan on reading it again from the start someday, maybe next year. I procrastinated it too much to the point that I had forgotten the plot. The next Palahniuk novel I read was Lullaby two months ago and I definitely enjoyed it. There were people who discouraged me from reading it, but I found that book particularly entertaining. The next book I plan on reading is Snuff, but I have to finish my Murakami first. I made the mistake of reading two Murakamis in a row, though. After Lullaby I read After Dark by Murakami and I'm now reading Norwegian Wood, but right now I'm just itching for Snuff.

But yeah, it was Fight Club. I really want to read all his novels though. I want to make it to a point that I'm able to read all his fictional books before I graduate high school. I have a lot of time since I'm still starting out as a sophomore.

No, I went to a regular public middle school. She just didn't like me reading about all the sex and junk in the books.

I first read Invisible Monsters about 3 months ago. It was the start of school, and I was on the phone with my friend. I asked her if she ever read any of Palahniuk's stuff. She told me that she bought Invisible Monsters but hated his writing style and never finished it. I asked her if I could read it, and she replied with, "You can keep that shitty book." I read it, was ridiculed for doing so by her and her best friend, and got hooked.

My senior year of high school we got a new young english teacher and one of the first books he had the class read was Survivor. Ever since then i have been hooked.

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My friend lent me Survivor in my sophomore year of high school and I've been hooked since.

I read choke in 2 days and then soon as I was done reading it I saw that the move was coming out in two weeks and I saw it the night it came out.

I read Fight Club after having seen the movie, and being blown away by it. And then I was blown away by the novel, especially the writing style, I had never seen anything like it (having not read Spanbauer or Hempel, etc). Fight Club was just like the coolest book ever to me. I bought Invisible Monsters, which I liked even more than Fight Club. I bought Survivor, but somewhere in the middle of it, I put it down and never picked it up again. I bought Choke, but couldn't get past the first few chapters, and I tried twice. I bought Haunted, and also lost interest.

i sat and read half of fight club in books-a-million then i bought it and took it home and read the rest

Much like many other people, I saw the movie Fight Club first. After seeing a movie like that I tend to see if there was a book from which it was adapted. When I saw that there was I immediately rushed out and bought it. I read it, cover to cover, in one sitting while at work (my boss was not happy). After that I started getting the rest of his books in order that they were/are released and have not stopped since. The majority of his earlier works I got were ARC's. I guess I just couldn't wait the extra month until I got the opportunity to read them. Recently I have stopped buying the ARC's and just wait for the official release. It would be an understatement to say that his writing has changed my life. Not only has it affected my point of view, it has also affected my circle of influence and broadened my scope of authors and books that I have read and follow.

mine was a copy of survivor i found at a public library. not gonna lie, the cover drew me in as a designer. i read the first two pages and took it home.

i read LULLABY in two days while snowed in at my friends house. portlanders here would remember the 2003 storm.. anyway. yeah, lullaby. blew my mind. unlike anything i had read in my 22 years of life up until then. i learned that i love chuck palahniuk, that week. i also learned that when the margarita mixer is gone, you cannot make margaritas with mountain dew.

It was Fight Club.I saw familiar name in a book store.Before I saw movie,but I didn`t know anything about Chuck and his books.I thought it`s just a great movie.

I picked up my first book when i was about fourteen. A friend of mine at school was going on and on about a movie he'd seen called "Fight Club". I went to a borders store one night for the midnight release of harry potter with my friends. I was never a fan of the series but decided to go. on the shelf next to the dvd's was a big collection of books that were buy one get one free. I picked Kurt Vonnegut's "Breakfast of Champions" and Chuck Palahniuks "Fight Club". After a week i had finished "Fight Club" so i read it again. The next one i bought was "Invisible Monsters". Ever since i've become addicted. Its so rare for a book to just grab on and just make me think all day about it.

Chuck has done alot for me.

Wow. I wish my local bookstores included Vonnegut in a buy one get one free...

The borders in my area always has weird deals like that. last month i picked up Armageddon in Retrospective By Vonnegut and Knockemstiff.

I woke up hungover at a friends house at 8 in the morning and everyone else was still sleeping. I stumbled across a friends copy of Survivor and read the first 30 or 40 pages. The next day we drank again and I couldn't remember the name of the book. About a week later a friend showed me the cover of the Rant hardcover because she was fascinated by the design and it reminded me the name right away. I bought the book, read the book and finished reading it that weekend on the way to an Oakland A's game (about a 45 minute drive from where I live in San Jose).

I remember hearing everyone rave about fight club (more the movie than the book), but I'm the sort of person who hates seeing movies before reading the books they're based on so instead of watching it I kept my eye out for the book at the local library (I'm also the sort of person who only buys books I KNOW I want a copy of, not books I haven't read before). One day when I checked I saw Diary, and since it had Palahniuk's name on it I figured I'd give it a try.
I remember being stunned after reading the first page. The use of detail, the perfect hinting at what was to come, just enough darkness... everything on that one page was everything I'd been looking for in a book.
The rest did not disappoint.

How I started reading Chuck is kinda weird.

In 99, I saw the trailers for Fight Club, but I hated Brad Pitt at the time. I really didn't think much of the trailers as it didn't really relay the true type of story that it was. I thought it was ONLY about fighting.

And then summer 2000 comes along and the DVD comes out. One of my friends comes over with his bro and makes me watch the movie. I watched the movie 10 times in the 2 weeks that followed as I had bought the DVD. So looking at the DVD cover, I see on the back, where the credits are at the bottom, there's a small rectangular case in which I read "Read the Owl book". And I'm like, "woh, there's a book????" (yeah, I hadn't watched/heard the DVD commentary with Chuck or even noticed in the movie credits where it says "Based on a novel by Chuck Palahniuk").

So, being of an extremely curious nature, I go to a book store and buy Fight Club. And then, those Friends who made me relunctantly watch the movie, were surprised at me trying to convince them to read the damn book. One week later, I buy Invisible Monster and Survivor.

I've bought every CP book since then, except for Snuff, which I haven't had any time to read yet, but will soon. But I think I will read Pygmy first though.

I only found the Cult three years after reading Fight Club for the first time.

I can't believe that the Fight Club movie will be ten years old next October. Time flies!

Fight Club got me into reading.

How could anyone forget any of Chuck's books? My first was Haunted.

Rant. What a glorious book.

Fight Club was my first. I started reading it in Borders and I had to buy it. Amazing.

I ordered Choke and Fight Club at the same time from the library. Choke arrived sooner than Fight Club, so I read Choke first.

About a year and a half ago, I picked up the paperback of "Diary" at a buy 1, get one free sale at my local Borders. I read it and enjoyed it, and although I was definitely intrigued by Chuck as a writer, I got the sense that "Diary" probably wasn't the ideal place to start. A few months later, I picked up "Survivor" and the rest is history.

Since then, I've re-read "Diary" and enjoyed it MUCH more the second time around, especially after having already read "Survivor", "Choke", "Invisible Monsters", etc..

Freshman year of college, that was 2002, there was a guy in my english comp class reading Choke. He was a cool guy and said it was great, so I picked it up and read it. I can't remember which one I read next...

It was Lullaby. I had to ask the clerk for it. They keep all of Chuck's novels in the backroom. People have been stealing them. I'd never even heard of that before. It just tells you how popular Chuck is.

I read Fight Club last summer. I fell in love with it. Shortly after, I read Pygmy. I just recently finished Snuff (which was absolutely hilarious, in my opinion). Now' I'm working on Choke.

"Rant" was my first book I had ever read (and owned) by Chuck. It was a great way to kick off my reading of the other books.(still in progress)

My boyfriend read Choke and said I should read it. I get really freaked out by medical stuff - doctors and hospitals and symptoms - and ended up putting it down at the part where Victor starts diagnosing the women dancing at the strip club. I swore off Chuck forever. I thought he was the worst! Then I read Invisible Monsters because my boyfriend wouldn't stop raving about it to anyone that would listen. I read it and loved it and ever since reading that I haven't been too squeamish about any of Chuck's books though Guts was very hard to soldier through.

~my first book was 'Diary', my friend recommended it to me, I loved Chucks writing style and decided to try more. I obviously got hooked.
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A pretty girl named Marla gave me a copy of Fight Club and the rest, as they say, is history.

Goddamnit, Matt. My heart is gonna break in a second. Shit.

No need to break your heart over this shit, Chris. It's life, and life only. I'm not broken over it. Not any more so than usual. It's just something that happens. She comes back. Always.

And, it's not that good of a love story. But perhaps I'll write about it someday. Doesn't feel like with reached the climax yet though. Plenty of story to go.

It's not so much whether it's a good love story or a bad one. It's a fucking real one. And that's what gets me. I don't mean 'break my heart' as in "Oh I'm so sad." I mean it as in, "This is what keeps me a hopeless romantic, d'awwwwww how cute and sweet and utterly raw" and shit.

Yeah, you're right. It's definitely all those things. Definitely as real as the shit gets.