Half a book review
Anyone out there ever read any Chuck Palahniuk? If you haven't, well, fuck you then.
I had never heard of the man until the movie Fight Club came out. While the book was solid, it left me a bit iffy after the balls-to-the-wall visceral nature of the film. But ever the eager reader, I plowed on. Invisible Monsters, which he wrote prior to Fight ( Read more... )
I had never heard of the man until the movie Fight Club came out. While the book was solid, it left me a bit iffy after the balls-to-the-wall visceral nature of the film. But ever the eager reader, I plowed on. Invisible Monsters, which he wrote prior to Fight ( Read more... )
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I kinda agreed with you about the writer's colony stuff when I was first reading the book, but there is a point to it which is revealed towards the end, and I actually came to like it, although not as much as the stories themselves.
But yeah, Chuck P. rocks my socks.
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"As a fund-raiser, our first idea was 'Five Bucks to Punch a Mime.' And it worked, mostly in college towns. The aggie schools. Some towns, nobody went home without some of that Clown White smeared across their knuckles. Clown White and blood."
And I thought to myself, man, that's five sentences that just put a boot up my ass.
And then he got to the part about the soundtrack to "Beaches" making the most people want to hit someone.
He's not for everyone, to be sure. But he is for me. Bravo for your sublime taste. And if you say the ending pulls it all together, I will trust that and get back to you.
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