I have a question.

Most people didn't like it.

i appreciated a few bits of it as an artist, but overall didn't enjoy the novel much. just about everything after lullaby, actually, left me disappointed... rant was interesting and haunted had some hilarious moments interspersed throughout, but i think choke was the last book in chuck's progression i really enjoyed.

what he said

Haunted is probably my favorite.
and I enjoyed Rant a good bit, although it completely took over my mind in the time that I was reading it. I was pretty obsessed in getting.. unconfused? haha.
but yeah, I haven't even read lullaby yet. I read a summary/description and it didn't catch me, but from what I've heard it's really good.

some people really dug lullaby, some not so much. it was pretty so/so for me. have you read invisible monsters, survivor, choke, or fight club yet? i'd recommend any of those above lullaby... and if you havent read choke yet, please spare yourself the movie. i had a very sad face after i watched it.

what other books are you into?

let me recommend if you havent read them yet:

the contortionist's handbook by clevenger and
kiss me, judas by will christopher baer.

survivor was my first chuck book, which i followed up with the handbook and it was a great breath of new air. then i dove back into chuck for a bit and started a mad love affair with baer.

there are all sorts of threads around here with good book recommendations
im curious what you dig though.

I'm about 70 pages into invisible monsters and so far it hasn't caught my attention. I always hear it's amazing and a lot of people like it, so I'm sticking through the boring parts til I get to the goods. haha.
plus, most of chuck's books aren't as good at the beggining as they are after you pass that peak near the middle.

I will definitely write those books down.
I am going to b&n's tomorrow.. soo yay
I'm gonna buy American Psycho, I'm pretty sure

and hmm, sad, but true, I read the whole twilight series before christmas and I just recently picked up reading again. and I got a lot of books for christmas.. chuck's books.
and I've read rant, fight club, choke, haunted, and I'm pretty sure that's all.
I've read choke and I've watched maybe half the movie.
it was okay from what I saw.. but i don't know. D:
I'd still like to finish it though

but yeah, lately, all I've read is chuck palahniuk, really.
and I did read Russell Brand's autobiography, it was really good.
very blunt and interesting. not a boring part throughout all of it.

so I don't really dig.. much right now. besides chuck.
what about you?

It took me a while to get through the first few pages of Invisible Monsters. I wasn't grasping any of it for some reason; it just wasn't interesting to me and I found myself re-reading the first ten pages numerous times before I could get into it. Once I got past it though, it became my all time favorite book ever. It's like 'American Psycho', the beginning is slow, but if you can get past it, it becomes totally worth it.

yeah. I'm not sure if I'm past the 'first few pages' or not, but I think i know what you're tlaking about.

the first chapter of IM was really.. i don't know.
I didn't even understand what was going on, and I don't feel like rereading it to be braced with the lack of understanding it once again, hah.

but yeah I can't wait to read AP !!!

yeah. I'm not sure if I'm past the 'first few pages' or not, but I think i know what you're tlaking about.

the first chapter of IM was really.. i don't know.
I didn't even understand what was going on, and I don't feel like rereading it to be braced with the lack of understanding it once again, hah.

but yeah I can't wait to read AP !!!

Trust me, Invisible Monsters is well worth the read.

Survivor is a lot of people's (including myself) favorite. It was really funny, but dark.

Survivor is the one I buy for friends who haven't tried Chuck yet. Has worked up to now in converting them.

Survivor was my first Chuck, stumbled upon at a library quite awhile ago. I'd heard of him but was reading other things at the time, and really, it was the design of the cover that got me to give it a chance. Beautiful.

I'm glad that was the first book of his I read Kept me reading his early books first, otherwise I might not have stuck with him.

I might pick up survivor when I go to B&N's today!
I hope they have it, last time I went i don't remember seeing it. D:
if not, I'll order it or something

I still have Stranger than Fiction to read and I read the first story already just out of boredom and waiting for another book to arrive in the mail.
I'm stuck in the middle of the second story. It's about wrestling and really just not catching me at all, haha boring.

Have any of you read that? and are any of the stories really interesting/good?
Just curious

Is your name really Shana? How do you say it?

haha. yes!

shay-nuh.
shane-uh.

My name is Shana too. Spelled the same way but pronounced like Banana.

I think you and Shuh-na-nuh will have a lot to talk about.

hahaha!
a lot of people call me shananana with all of the nana's like banana!
rofl, yeah I heard about you though.
hahaha.
everyone's like "ANOTHER SHANA!?!?!?!?!"

I BOUGHT SURVIVOR!

You stole Taylor's extra big glasses.

I am glad you said that because I am reading American Psycho right now and I am at 100 pages and it is kinda boring.

It is definitely one of those reads that you may not enjoy or like while reading it, you may have to power through it.. But at after finishing it and putting it down, regardless of your experiences while reading it, you just have this respect/love/admiration for the book after finishing it. Its odd and hard to explain really, but this is how i felt.

I strongly agree with this