What's your rankings of Chuck's books?

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Fri, 12/19/2003 - 13:09

#51

NightMonkie

Monkie After All

From: Louisiana

Joined: 12/14/2003

Easily my favorite is Choke.
then its:
Fight Club
Survivor
Lullaby
Invisible Monsters

havn't read diary or fugitives and refugees yet.

Sat, 12/20/2003 - 12:41

#52

joeyjord

Cunning Idiot

From: Littleton,Co

Joined: 12/13/2003

Choke
Survivor
Lullaby
Invisible Monsters
Diary
Fight Club
Fugitives and Refugees

Sat, 12/20/2003 - 15:05

#53

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From: NOT Florida

Joined: 02/16/2003

Invisible Monsters
Fight Club
Lullaby
Survivor
Choke

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Sun, 12/21/2003 - 10:11

#54

bussey durden

From: Canada

Joined: 09/23/2003

fight club
choke
diary
Fugitives and Refugees
lullaby
survivor
invisible monsters

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Tue, 04/20/2004 - 10:36

#55

friedmonkey

From: Brighton, UK

Joined: 04/19/2004

choke
fight club
diary
survivor
lullaby
invisible monsters
F&R

Wed, 04/21/2004 - 02:58

#56

umop ap!sdn

From: Houston, TX

Joined: 04/04/2004

[b]Choke[/b] (loved it)
[b]Fight Club[/b] (loved it)
[b]Invisible Monsters[/b] (loved it)
[b]Lullaby[/b] (liked it)
[b]Survivor[/b] (liked it, maybe a tie with Lullaby)
[b]Diary[/b] (didnt really like)

Havent read Fugatives and Refugees or Stranger than Fiction yet

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Mon, 05/10/2004 - 18:03

#57

jzk87

From: Earth

Joined: 06/18/2003

Thought I would update my post. It's really interesting seeing so many Choke's and Survivor's being on the numbers one's of many peoples. I never thought they were as popular as Fight Club:

Fight Club
Survivor
Choke
Lullaby
Fugitives and Refugess

Need to Read:
Invisible Monsters
Diary
Having a tough time getting through Diary. It's just a little grim and not as entertaining to me. Peace.

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Mon, 05/10/2004 - 19:04

#58

TheJudasCow

Joined: 01/29/2004

Choke
Lullaby
Survivor
Fight Club
Invisible Monsters
Diary

im nervous about Fugitives and Refugees
should i read it?

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Mon, 05/10/2004 - 19:46

#59

jzk87

From: Earth

Joined: 06/18/2003

[QUOTE=TheJudasCow]Choke
Lullaby
Survivor
Fight Club
Invisible Monsters
Diary

im nervous about Fugitives and Refugees
should i read it?[/QUOTE]
Yeah sure. You're a Chuck fan. And besides it gives you some good stories in it as well. Not just a stupid ass travel brochure. Obiosuly I wouldn't rate it as high as most of his stories, but better than some literature out there.

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Tue, 05/11/2004 - 06:01

#60

MIRROR MIRROR

From: the Netherlands

Joined: 02/01/2004

1 Survivor
2 Fight Club
3 Diary
4 Choke
5 Invisible Monsters
6 Lullaby

haven't read Fugitives and Refugees yet.

Tue, 05/11/2004 - 09:57

#61

sheenUGH

From: Nor Cal

Joined: 05/08/2004

Lullaby
Fight Club
Choke
Invisible Monsters
Survivor

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Tue, 05/11/2004 - 10:39

#62

toolshed181st

From: toronto

Joined: 04/06/2004

Survivor
Fight Club
Invisible Monsters
Choke
Lullaby
Diary

Tue, 05/11/2004 - 16:00

#63

bmk

From: Kent

Joined: 10/15/2003

Fight Club
Survivor
Fugitives and Refugees
Choke
Lullaby
Invisible Monsters
Diary

Wed, 05/12/2004 - 18:45

#64

Clever K

From: The Virtuplex

Joined: 04/30/2004

Fight Club
Lullaby
Diary
Choke
Survivor
Invisible Monsters

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Sun, 05/16/2004 - 19:39

#65

mikierotten

From: santa cruz

Joined: 02/15/2004

1.) Diary Smile Big
2.) Lullaby
3.) Fight Club
4.) Choke Surprise
5.) Survivor Sad

I have not read the others; Chuck is getting better.

Cheers

Mikie

Tue, 05/18/2004 - 22:54

#66

WildEight

From: Scotland

Joined: 05/18/2004

1 - Survivor (Beautiful, funny, tragic, Masterpiece)
2 - Fight Club (It started the obsession)
3 - Invisible Monsters ( twists and turns)
4 - Guts (for the guts to write it)
5 - Diary (gothic horror reborn)
6 - Choke (funny but not solid)
7 - Lullaby (great premise but fades towards the end)

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Tue, 05/18/2004 - 23:02

#67

Arcana13

From: The Wasteland (but not Eliot's)

Joined: 04/21/2004

Survivor--outlived expectations
Lullaby--Solid, held up for me
Fight Club--Still great
Invisible Monsters--How'd he write her?
Diary--I need to read it again
Choke--Overrated; I like the colony and rocks bits

Own but haven't read the non-fiction.

Mon, 08/30/2004 - 08:39

#68

the bride

From: Italy

Joined: 08/17/2004

it's very difficult for me to rank Chuck's books, since I love them all...! the only thing I'm sure about is that Invisible Monsters is my favourite Wink

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Tue, 08/31/2004 - 14:41

#69

mikierotten

From: santa cruz

Joined: 02/15/2004

why cant love be as simple as a flower on your grave? You appear cool and as far as i can decipher , that is the ultimate quest , dig it die young they call me stalker!

cheers

michael

Tue, 08/31/2004 - 23:36

#70

Mr. Pink

From: Somewhere I wish I wasn't

Joined: 04/04/2004

[B]Invisible Monsters[/B]-The entire story just compleatly enthralled me in the way that few other books have
[B]Fight Club[/B]-The reason I started to read Chuck
[B]Lullaby[/B]-This and Choke are compleatly interchangable
[B]Coke[/B]-My first read, after guts, but first novel
[B]Survivor[/B]-Good, but just doesn't measure up to the greatness of his other books
[B]Diary[/B]-My least favorite, but I only read it once, and I was very very tired when I read it, so I kept falling asleep, and so everything was even more jumbled, need to read it again

Haven't had the chance to read the non fiction yet. But I'm hell bent on reading them.

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Wed, 01/25/2006 - 20:01

#71

ally

From: in a van down by the river

Joined: 11/10/2005

1) Fight Club
2)Diary
3)Survivor
4)Invisible Monsters
5)Lullaby
6)Haunted
7)Fugitives and Refugees

Fri, 01/27/2006 - 20:27

#72

Michael

Every week is GaGa week

Joined: 04/15/2003

Numbers are for the order I read them:

2) Lullaby

3) Invisible Monsters

1) Survivor
5) Fight Club
6) Diary
4) Choke
7) Fugitives and Refugees
8) Stranger Than Fiction

I think Lullaby is one of my favorite books, period. I think it's ab-fab. It would be my choice to get a friend into reading Chuck, because most of my friends would like it most. After that, I heart Invisible Monsters. Everything else gets kinda stuck in the same area, well, except:

9) Haunted sucked.

Mon, 04/03/2006 - 23:04

#73

itsamadworld

Joined: 02/27/2006

1)Fight Club
2) Invisible Monsters
3)Diary
4)Survivor
5)Lullaby
6)Haunted
7)Fugitives and Refugees

Tue, 04/04/2006 - 11:20

#74

BlackPac-Man

Free

From: Ohio

Joined: 02/15/2006

1. Survivor
2. Fight Club
3. Invisible Monsters
4. Haunted
5. Choke
6. Lullaby
7. Diary
I'm not a big fan of non-fiction.

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Tue, 04/04/2006 - 11:36

#75

bassplr19

From: WI

Joined: 08/28/2003

Survivor
Choke
Fight Club
Lullaby
Diary
IM
The one that's missing from the list
F and R
Haunted

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Wed, 06/14/2006 - 23:12

#76

rkdaley

From: Austin, Texas

Joined: 09/25/2004

My list in order from the bestest to the crappiest. Oh, and my ranking the correct one.

Rant
The one with Tom Spanbauer
haunted
diary
Stanger than fiction
fugitves and refugees
choke
lullaby
invisible monsters
fight club
survivor

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Wed, 06/14/2006 - 23:16

#77

karbunkle

From: The Other Side of the Wind

Joined: 10/27/2003

how can you rank 2 books that haven't even been published yet ?
does anticipation outweigh previous quality and entertainment?

Thu, 06/15/2006 - 00:18

#78

Dj_iii

Fancy

Joined: 01/31/2006

Survivor
Fight Club
Invisible Monsters
Choke
Lullaby
Haunted

Haunted might be last because I kept going back to the store for months waiting for it to come out in paperback, because I'm a cheap bastard, and finally I had a little extra money in my pocket so I sprung for the hardback. Went back a week later to find...that's right, the paperback edition came out. So already it's being held up to the hardback standard. Also, it was my 6th favorite. I think I just wanted to tell that story. Oh, Internet, what a good listener you are. sigh.

Thu, 06/15/2006 - 01:03

#79

Chixulub

Granny Gear Artist

From: East Coast of Kansas

Joined: 02/13/2004

Survivor

Choke
Fight Club
Lullaby

Fugitives and Refugees

Diary

Stranger Than Fiction

Haunted

Invisible Monsters

I decided Invisible Monsters was actually dead last for me. I thought it was Haunted, but I actually like the short stories in Haunted, most of them. Invisible Monsters was a struggle to finish.

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Thu, 06/15/2006 - 01:21

#80

rkdaley

From: Austin, Texas

Joined: 09/25/2004

[QUOTE=karbunkle]how can you rank 2 books that haven't even been published yet ?
does anticipation outweigh previous quality and entertainment?[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I know it sounds wierd, but somehow I can. It's a gift I have. Just like I know that your next thread will be better and more sucessful than your last four.

I haven't read most of the books on that list anyways, so adding ones that aren't out yet wasn't too hard.

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Thu, 06/15/2006 - 01:37

#81

Smartazboy

Somebody that you used to know

From: Chicano, Illinoise

Joined: 10/03/2004

choke
invisible monsters
survivor
fight club
lullaby
stranger than fiction
diary
haunted
fugitves and refugees

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Thu, 06/15/2006 - 01:59

#82

nathaniel parker

Sprung

From: Outer spiral arm of Milky Way

Joined: 06/24/2005

[QUOTE=rkdaley] Just like I know that your next thread will be better and more sucessful than your last four.
[/QUOTE]
there went your credability right there

Thu, 06/15/2006 - 20:46

#83

rkdaley

From: Austin, Texas

Joined: 09/25/2004

Wow, I had credibility? Sweet.

Choke is actually my favorite Chuck book.

Did I get any cred. back?

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Thu, 06/15/2006 - 22:25

#84

nickdngr

Joined: 05/22/2006

survivor
fight club
choke
stranger than fiction
haunted
diary
invisible monsters
fugitives and refugees
lullaby

Tue, 06/27/2006 - 20:27

#85

the midas touch

Joined: 02/14/2006

Choke/Survivor/Invisible Monsters
Fight Club
Lullaby
Diary
Haunted
Stranger than Fiction
Fugitives and Refugees

Tue, 06/27/2006 - 22:32

#86

mary

From: California

Joined: 06/14/2003

[QUOTE=the midas touch]Choke/Survivor/Invisible Monsters
Fight Club
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I agree with this lineup... don't care much for the other books. I did like Fugitives and Refugees though.

Wed, 06/28/2006 - 02:21

#87

Federov

ghosting.

From: Gotham

Joined: 10/25/2004

Choke
Invisible Monsters
Survivor
Fight Club
Lullaby
Fugitives and Refugees
Haunted
Diary

Wed, 06/28/2006 - 17:48

#88

natters

From: Fresno

Joined: 04/02/2006

Choke
Invisible Monsters
Survivor
Lullaby
Fight Club
Haunted
Diary

Sun, 07/16/2006 - 10:18

#89

TwistedVision

Joined: 04/20/2006

I have read:

Fight Club, Non Fiction, Choke and Diary. And I'm currently reading Haunted but ignoring the narration and reading the short stories.

Of the four I have read... I would place them in this order:

Fight Club
Diary
Non Fiction
Choke

So far I think haunted would be beneath Choke... I'm only on the third or fourth story... the one about the TV studio, but it's so boring.. the other stories so far were good though Smile

Sun, 07/16/2006 - 13:37

#90

VictorWard

From: florida!

Joined: 10/25/2004

invisible monsters (this was my first chuck book. i don't know if that had something to do with my choice or not but it is amazing and i would really like to see it made into a movie.

choke (easily his funniest book. great story line and it's the only one that i've read more than once)

lullaby

survivor

diary

Tue, 12/12/2006 - 23:18

#91

Madelyn

My mercury’s in retrograde.

From: Minnesota

Joined: 12/04/2006

From what I have read so far...

Invisible Monsters
Survivor
Lullaby
Choke
Fight Club
Diary

Tue, 12/12/2006 - 23:39

#92

Unhygenix

From: Pittsburgh

Joined: 12/27/2005

choke
survivor
invisible monsters
lullaby
haunted
diary
stranger than fiction

Wed, 12/13/2006 - 00:51

#93

chimney scott

From: ..

Joined: 09/05/2006

Choke
Lullaby
Survivor
Haunted
Diary

Haven't yet read IM or his non-fiction.. I paused for a bit for different authors.

Fri, 01/05/2007 - 14:07

#94

Linden16

From: Alliston, Ontario, Canada

Joined: 12/13/2006

OK, I've just started reading Chuck's works, but here's my list so far:

1. Fight Club (movie);
2. Survivor; and
3. Haunted.

Next up? I'm probably going to read "Diary", "Choke" or "Invisible Monsters". Eventually, I'll get around to reading "Fight Club".

Wed, 01/17/2007 - 21:37

#95

Linden16

From: Alliston, Ontario, Canada

Joined: 12/13/2006

[QUOTE=Linden16;912487]OK, I've just started reading Chuck's works, but here's my (edited) list so far:

1. Fight Club (movie);
2. Survivor;
3. Haunted; and

(insert BIG gap)

4. Diary.

Next up? I'm probably going to read "Choke" or "Invisible Monsters". Eventually, I'll get around to reading "Fight Club".[/QUOTE] I really enjoyed Survivor, and liked many of the short stories in Haunted, but Diary was too slow to finish. I gave it a hundred pages or so, but I just couldn't continue...

Fri, 04/20/2007 - 12:08

#96

indietroy

From: 39.77N -86.16W

Joined: 04/20/2007

1. Invisible Monsters
2. Survivor
3. Choke

Thu, 05/03/2007 - 11:38

#97

dobug

Joined: 12/24/2006

Rant
Survivor
Lullaby
Choke
Invisible Monsters
Haunted
Fight Club
Diary
Stranger than Fiction
Fugitives and Refugees

Sun, 05/06/2007 - 01:44

#98

discharge

From: ft. worthless, texas

Joined: 05/01/2007

lullaby
survivor
choke
invisible monsters
fight club
diary

Fri, 05/11/2007 - 00:02

#99

tom9d

A thought is my friend.

From: Estonia

Joined: 02/20/2007

survivor
invisible monsters
choke
fight club
lullaby
diary
haunted
stranger than fiction

im about 80-100 pages (i forget) into rant right now...im projecting it will be somewhere in my top three. probably second...possibly first or third.

Fri, 05/11/2007 - 06:24

#100

asterisk

Joined: 10/15/2006

Lullaby
Diary
Choke
Fight Club
Fugitives and Refugees
Survivor
Invisible Monsters

Haunted (haven't finished; maybe I can't be bothered either)
Stranger than Fiction (couldn't finish; could barely start it)

Rant (got it, not started yet)