Pygmy Debuts At #3 On The NY Times Best Seller List!

That is awesome Chuck really deserves it with Pygmy.

Going through this list has made me aware of something truly, awfully dreadful: the Twilight lady also wrote a book about aliens that fall in love with humans. Good. Fucking. God.

Hooray for Chuck!

Let's just hope he doesn't take the Hollywood route and keep rehashing the Pygmy style.

Cool!

Pygmy is not my favorite of his but I am glad that it did well.

Kudos that respectable mainstream America has recognized that Chuck is an amazingly talented guy!

I doubt Chuck will let this get to his head, though... he seems pretty solid. If his goal was fame and money he is certainly clever enough to write the type of book that would, even bereft of content, would be lapped up by the masses, and he could have done it already.

So by not quoting the full post you're implying that Chuck's goals are fame and money?

Because I more fully agree with this part of the post:

Kudos that respectable mainstream America has recognized that Chuck is an amazingly talented guy!

Yes, we rally to get him on the top ten list and celebrate his success! Not just because we're his official website, but because most of us have at least a couple of favorite Chuck books.

I haven't loved everything and I haven't even read everything (Snuff,) but Survivor and Invisible Monsters blew me away. I think Pygmy is entertaining (so far)and I read that Chuck had "a blast" writing it.

I've also been to several readings, and he's funny as hell in person. Not to mention very generous to his fans. He is a solid person who hasn't let fame go to his head even though he has a cult.

I believe that he writes to keep himself entertained and challenged, and hopefully his fans will like it too. But he doesn't churn out a book a year like some hack. He writes a book a year (this year three) because he's a writing machine and truly loves to write.

!!!

Congrats Chuck! I havent read PYGMY yet cuz its a nice signed copy and i dont want to fuck it up it in school but it seems really intersting and i cant wait to read it! Thats awesome.

I am appreciate the "thank you to us fans" i was at they NYC tour and i got a book.
Congrats Chuck and Your Welcome

So, 5 or 6 books becoming movies.... I remember someone on the forum saying "Survivor will never be out, we'll have a black president before that comes out on film"

ohhhh so funny.

"Going through this list has made me aware of something truly, awfully dreadful: the Twilight lady also wrote a book about aliens that fall in love with humans. Good. Fucking. God."²

said all.
mournful.

Fail at quoting, fail at spelling. You're still breathing aren't you?

1. DEAD AND GONE, by Charlaine Harris. (Ace, $25.95.) Sookie Stackhouse searches for the killer of a werepanther.

well james patterson is #2, not as shocker.......but WHAT the hell is that crap...were-panther?...really?

very exciting

still waiting for the day he debuts at number one

but number three is very impressive

memory serves that his best before now was number four or five, a couple of years ago, with rant i think-

but that's memory and memory is never honestly sound

Good for him. Seems like the next couple of years will be active with a variety of Chuck releases, and I hope they continue to chart as well.

Hi everyone!

I've not posted in a while, but some of you may recognize me as the guy who was assembling a Chuck-Bibliography to be released in a book about Chuck.

Good news, my anthology of essays about Chuck is coming out at the end of June! Sacred and Immoral: On the Writings of Chuck Palahniuk will be available soon, and I'll be posting the Amazon link for everyone in a couple of weeks.

In the meantime, here's some factual tidbits about Chuck's history on the NYT Bestsellers List that I dug out of my research (apologies...I don't have the NYT List number for Snuff right now, but here's the rest).

"Six of Palahniuk’s ten books have reached the New York Times Best Seller’s list, with all five of his novels since 1999 reaching the highest echelons of the List: Choke (2001) debuted at #10, Lullaby (2002) premiered at #7, Diary (2003) at #5, Haunted (2005) topped out at #8, and his latest, Rant (2007), debuted at #5 on May 13, 2007."

That makes Pygmy his bestseller yet, at #3. Happy reading!

Jeff Sartain
nuclearjello

1. DEAD AND GONE, by Charlaine Harris. (Ace, $25.95.) Sookie Stackhouse searches for the killer of a werepanther.

Beats me, I haven't read any of her books, hopefully she's better at writing than being interviewed (came across brain damaged).

However, that being said, the HBO version is surprisingly watchable, though that might all be Alan Ball's doing.
http://www.hbo.com/trueblood/

I read the first Sookie book and it was nonsense. The show is SO much better

Hi Jeff! Dennis told me that your book is finished and that it's being released soon. Congratulations! I look forward to reading it.

I have to say that while Pygmy shows remarkable talent from Chuck, in that it was written to convincingly sound like a rough foreign-english translation [yet still understandable], it is one of my least favorite of his books.
I have read a few reviews of it, where it is mentioned that Chuck is returning to his Fight Club roots. I take exception to statements like this. I find it odd that Pygmy receives praise, where Haunted and Rant [two of my favorites] were slammed. Comparing Pygmy to Fight Club is borderline blasphemy.
For the record, this is not to say that I hated the book; I simply did not enjoy the story anywhere near as much as most other Palahniuk stories.
Still, great job Chuck. I admire and am proud of your success. Please keep pumping out wonderful books, and I will keep reading them.

I'm excited to read this book, but I have two other books I need to get through before starting it.