My first
Ok all of you regulars know that I am not involved with anything here really except for maybe Zoth, but I just wanted to tell everyone that I finally read my first Chuck Palahniuk book. I just finished Survivor and loved it. I am curious to know what everyone else thought of it and what your first Palahnuik books were and what it was that got you hooked on his writing?
Onyx
iv'e been telling her to read palahniuk for 11 months now.
thank god.
so what did you like about it? cuz we don't live in the same apt. and i can't talk to you in person or anything
imperfect plotting grows the seeds of time.
--skinny puppy
Strange that you like Palahniuk, with your particular selection of authors.
Stephanie Meyer, Dean Koontz, Stephen King..
Anywho,
My first was Fight Club although it was definitely not my favorite.
My favorite so far is probably invisible monsters, although
i have not made it to Survivor yet. I have heard good things.
Rant i very much liked as well.
When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be If Earth could say, In a voice floating up Perhaps From the floor Of the Grand Canyon, "It is done. People did not like it here"
Keep your stick on the ice.
i agree with this, i much dilike her taste in authors but to each his own.
and invisible monsters is my favorite as well, i want her to read it but my friend borrowed it a long time ago and has been passing it around to others
imperfect plotting grows the seeds of time.
--skinny puppy
Rant was my first
Invisible Monsters is my favourite
"Fight Club" was the first, but "Choke" is the one that I love.
I felt nothing reading "Survivor", maybe because in Europe you hear about stuff like that every year. All the other books they gave me somenthing new, this one no.
Seem like I've gotta read "Invisible monster" 
I haven't read Survivor. Maybe I should. It seems like most people like it.
My first book was Haunted, and it still is my favorite.
og eg kan vel ikkje berre vere ingen stad heller -
and I can't just be nowhere either
Bookworms!!!!
no more lip from you, derek the reader !
I'm a real nice guy, loyal to his family and friends, like to help old people and I play well with children, but there is a very dark side to the moon. A predilection for the psychopathic, I have a history of violence I would like to herald always as ancient history. But some guys just wont listen, just wont let go.
onyx,
his writing is dangerous, full of physical sensation, and he goes places when few authors have the balls to plunge to those depths. he does all of this effectively.
and he started by aping king. was one of his biggest influences to write.
chuck (in my estimation, of course) has the rare distinction to be a mainstream success but also writes well. very few can do that, or very few make a successful career out of it. for instance, i like jim butcher. or, at least his dresden files series. and though he has a lot of success, and some mainstream success on his belt, his writing is not that strong. king's prose can outright suck, as it does more so in most of his books [that i have read] than it doesnt, but he's a naturally gifted story teller and that shows through in his legacy far more so than as a prose writer haha (i type all of that, but i still revere him, of course)
chuck is a great story teller with superior prose and dangerous ideas. that in itself is hard not to like
-kabol
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I'm a real nice guy, loyal to his family and friends, like to help old people and I play well with children, but there is a very dark side to the moon. A predilection for the psychopathic, I have a history of violence I would like to herald always as ancient history. But some guys just wont listen, just wont let go.
I couldnt find my old copies of IM and Survivor so I went out and bought them again. Im going to reread them during the Summer.
Survivor was my first and I've been addicted to Chucks stuff ever since that day. I was absolutely enthralled. It will always be my favorite. The other books are kinda hard to put in order of preference, they all twist my brain in ways that make shiver. The stories and characters are all so fascinating. My Favorite thing about Chucks stories is that I find he writes his characters as emotional beings more so than physical characters. I love the intensity of truly feeling the characters rather than visualizing them. I love it!
Bravo Chuck!!! and Thank You for your refreshing point of view!
*** I also dig the not so typical subject matter.
Long time Chuck fan. - Brand new Cultie.
"Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you" Annie Dilard
could'nt have said it better
imperfect plotting grows the seeds of time.
--skinny puppy
Everybody is not perfect that is why we have to consider each other's inperfectness..
Anne Smith
fuck yeah, sports watches. also, survivor was my first palahniuk book. i remember i kept seeing it at the bookstore and finally one day i picked it up.
survivor was also my chuck cherry popper
i really enjoy his books and am looking forward to more.
Moved to proper forum.
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