Wonder if I might ask you people something.
I started off reading Chuck when I saw Fight Club. I followed him from book to book until Haunted, which was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. The quality of the work just was getting worse and worse, and that book was just a waste of space and type and time. I read that last one he put out before Snuff, whatever it was called, but can genuinely hardly remember a thing about it, except it was ridiculous. I mean, spider bite junkies? Gimme a break.
So I haven't read Snuff, and don't intend to read his new one either. Just here out of random bored curiosity. Can I ask you all something pointless, cos you're never going to agree, at least in public: don't you guys think that Chuck's work is now warmed-over fan-story-reproducing hackwork, thrown out one book every year? I mean, for somebody who supposedly takes himself seriously as a writer he certainly pumps out the boring formulaic word-product every 12 months.
You would think if he was as deep a thinker he and his fans thought he was that he would take more than a scant few months to get together a concept and write a whole book around it. That last one before Snuff was RIDICULOUS. The whole latter half of it was like he had had some ideas and couldn't be bothered to flesh them out in the text into characters and plot, cos that would take time and effort and energy, so he just told you all this weird stupid slide-off-the-eyes-and-brain shit about all the different things happening, all this quasi-metaphysical garbage that was just laughable and ludicrous and annoying and boring and uninvolving.
So. Chuck Palahniuk: once-entertaining hack who has had his day but who now pumps out books according to a publishing schedule, which is by definition typing and not writing.
Discuss.
And please don't abuse me, I'm not in the mood and am asking a serious question.
Thanks.
Also, wrong forum. Please move.
the story is irrelevant. he just thinks up different ways to tell the same story. like the canterbury tales method, the oral biography method and next is the borat method.
yeah, definitely the wrong forum. thanks for the bump and note-
kabol is on the second page if you [google] 'phineas poe'
-berto
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dear chuck off dude,
hey, welcome to the cult !
i moved your post because it has to do with chuck and so little do we discuss chuck in the general discussion forum..
everyone will experience change differently. snuff was certainly a fan novel; chuck wrote it for his fans, a half joke and a lost bet with his agent, or something.. he did it to give to his fans and to fuck with his editor at the same time. it is a fun, filthy little book. youre not supposed to take it too seriously. there are no indications that he did it because some publisher said they needed a book right away. he simply wrote it for his fans and to fuck with his editor, word on the street-
rant, though, was pretty fucking good. maybe you just read it while you were jaded. i for one didnt want to read fight club over and over again. and you will meet members here--if you stick around for any length of time--who seriously fucking loved haunted. i mean, fucking legion. and many members who hated it. but it is certainly NOT without merit.
the chuckster chances his story telling with every book. his first two were way different from his third (fight club), and none have been like any of them since. he is a writer who pushes boundaries. and i doubt his best work is out yet. i think it is years away.
if you choose to stop reading, to stick with fight club and not need anything more, that's fine. do what you want, what makes you happy. and best wishes to you.
again, welcome to the cult !
have fun, look around
-kabol
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kabol is on the second page if you [google] 'phineas poe'
-berto
Wow. This is a singular opinion that has NEVER been expressed on this site before. You're a brave man.,
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