n00b

Howdy Nick

Moshi Moshi

only you can prevent flame wars.

Hey, Nick. Welcome to the Cult. Wish I could make better sense of your chosen user name. but i think it's just me, my desire to comprehend. a few months from now, i wont remember nick; and i doubt that I'll know how to respond to you: "Yeah, hey, #6495ed, I think you make a very good point." Yeah, that just doesnt even feel right.. to me. Mind if I call you ed ?

Q. What took you so long to join the website of your favorite author ? and since this is a get to know you thread, when did you start reading Chuck and what have you thus far consumed of his library ? Also, what other authors do you love ? Any of Chuck's contemporaries ? Do you prefer classics and just stumble across the badassness of Chuck and bring your head up for a little contemporary indulgence, or do you read the likes of Nick Walker and Craig Clevenger and Will Baer and Katherine Dunn and all of those cats and at some point found a home in your heart for the chuckman himself and escalated him to the top of your preference list ?

Sorry about the barrage machine-gun style questioning, but i find myself curious.. it's unfair to ask so much and give nothing in return, though it is your thread...

I offer that: I love the mind of Chuck, and his writing is improving, he's really trying to figure what he does best so that we'll one day have some quite fantastic novels. he was balls to the wall with fight club and IM. Survivor was a dental-word novel and the humor of Vonnegut satire (though most of his work can be slated satire), and with Choke he pushed his stance at striving for an empathetic character. Diary, he pushed his choruses style to the hypnotic brink of chaos. Haunted was his wink at Chaucer for his Canterbury Tales. He seems to always strive for something new with each adventure out and this is what i love about him; he's not afraid of going places where even his fans would hold opposition to venturing out so far.. I love baer because you can [i]feel[/i] his work, feel it itching around bones to where you see the scratches on your arm forming from the inside of the flesh ... I mean, you empathize with the character within three sentences. Erickson, to me, is a true unpacker -- no cheep adverbs, to cheating the writing, just fleshing it all out. Cormic Mccarthy, the same as erickson, but with a much tougher prose, cold like hard wet rain, word for word nothing fancy but you get so much out of it.. The list goes on and i'm sure youre becoming bored with my not so coherent ramblings; sorry to get off track.. But who else do you enjoy and why ? Why do you favor Chuck as your fav author ?

Nice to meet you and hi
kabol

Hey, your username is even more inconvenient and unnecessary than mine, awesome.

[QUOTE=188416;936276]Hey, your username is even more inconvenient and unnecessary than mine, awesome.[/QUOTE]yes, okay, i admit it, that you guys are taking over..

just dont start picking on us, cause we can still rock :headbang:

Welcome, Nick. You should probably dig up the thread about the origin of your user name and explain it there for everyone. After that, just hang out and enjoy.

Ok, I have returned to clear some things up.
1. #6495ED is the HEX Code for cornflower blue. I had a stroke of what I originally felt to be unique....iness........but, later, after signing up, I have realized that it is just plain annoying.
2. I have known about the main site for quite a while, but I can be slow and didn't notice that there was a forum until about a week ago. I read about for a week, then joined.
3. As to how I wandered about to find Chuck, I am almost ashamed to say that I followed to logical path or had devotion to any specific list of authors, which makes me feel a bit....slow. I guess that before Chuck, my favorite author was Stephen King (yeah, I'm real original, aren't I?). I actually got to love Chuck's books after I got my Panic! At The Disco CD. After a bit of investigation, I came across a little book called Invisible Monsters, and from there, it is history. That was only about a year ago.
4. yeah, Ed will be fine

hey nick... i'm andrea- welcome!

hey, ed. i learned about chuck from the fight club movie. a few years later i read survivor ("oh, my, this is from the fight club author?") and the rest was history..

as for King.. I read a few of his books while still a child, because two of my sisters loved them so.. i cant read his work now, but that doesnt detract the fact that he's a stupidly prolific writer, man what a constitution..

funny little fact.. when chuck started writing, he professes that he aped king's style, mimicking king's writing into how he writes now. I mean, studying under the influence of King isnt so bad; he is the king after all..

hey, welcome to the cult. you are now a cultist. stay a while, read and enjoy. before you know it, you'll stumble across some great writers all over the place
kabol

Hello, new one. How old are you?

hey, thanks for the welome
im 16

Me Too!!!!!!!!!! I once made a 16 Year olds unite thread, but it didn't work out.