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Hi /lit/
Which is your favourite novel by Chuck Palahniuk?

>> No.2647778

What was the book where the kid got his ass stuck in a pool suction pump and pulled his intestines out? that ones my favourite.

>> No.2647781

Fight Club. Every one of his novels became unreadable to me after my junior year of high school, when I started getting into literature. His one-liners are shitty, annoying and distracting.

"Retarded" isn't the right word, but it's the closest that comes to mind.

>> No.2647789

>>2647778
I came across that story on some free literature site and just... AAAAAHHHHH! I don't want to think about it.

>> No.2647794

Fight Club.

Though I think he got really lucky with this book. I'm pretty sure he wrote a book that was smarter than himself.

But that would explain why that everything that he's written besides that is pretty underwhelming.

>> No.2647807

Fight Club is good. The rest is bad.

>> No.2647824

>>2647778
the title is "Haunted".

I think that Palahniuk was not bad in his first years.
"Fight club", "Rant" and "Choke" for me are good novels.

>> No.2647835

I liked Rant and Survivor better than Fight Club.

I don't understand why Palahniuk is so hated on /lit/ - I would have thought he'd be the perfect match to the board.

hipsters hate success, I guess

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfipIzr4JXE "lame guy hero movie" - exactly.

>> No.2647844

>>2647835
I agree with you.
But /lit/ seems to be full of haughty people that consider shit everything if it's not demanding to be read

>> No.2647858

>>2647764
Invisable Monsters. Choke is also nice. I liked the ending. It made me feel good.

>> No.2647864

>>2647835
Rant was fantastic. I loved how the futuristic aspect only revealed itself slowly over throughout the book. And how by the end of the book everything still makes sense, but everything means something different.

>> No.2649276

>>2647835
>>2647835

We prefer Houellebecq. Sort of.

>> No.2649289

Fight Club is his best novel.

The rest is pulp. Good pulp mostly, but pulp all the same.

>> No.2649305

I really like the one where the self-aware narrator has an infinite supply of intuitive knowledge about obscure facts relating to post-modern society. Y'know, and later one, weird violent/sexual circumstances befall him nonchalantly?

Help me out here

>> No.2649307

I don't know, but I thought survivor was a horrible book.

>> No.2649309

Rant and Haunted were okay
Fight Club and Lullaby as well

the rest I could do without, probably. I used to be way more into Palahniuk

>> No.2649313

Fight Club is his best. Survivor and Invisible Monsters are okay. Everything else got progressively worse until I stopped reading him.

>> No.2649322

Read Diary. Awful. Damned was a huge let-down given the premise. But Rant was fucking awesome. Just a bizarre, crazy, colorful trip. Here, he wasn't so concerned about being edgy or being today's voice. He just delivered a genuinely creative and fun story.

>> No.2649324

>>2649305
Sounds like survivor.
Its my favorite book by him.

>> No.2649328

Palahniuk is not literature proper.

>> No.2649330

I really enjoyed Rant.

>> No.2649358

I like Will Self better. They're very comparable writers, imo.

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>>2649328
>>2649328
M'yez, indeed indeed.

>> No.2649381

Probably Choke. The movie sucked because they fucked with the ending. Same thing goes for Fight Club.

>> No.2649405

Rant and Haunted

>> No.2649510

Still Fight Club

>that Cynicism
>that self-overcoming

>> No.2649525

>>2647778
Guts.

>>2649328

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>>2649379
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>> No.2649563

>>2647764
Survivor, definitely. The others all seem a bit hit and miss, that and Fight Club were the ones I enjoyed.

>>2647781
I remember reading a quote from him about using the profane to get to the proufound. The profane part sounds about right

>> No.2649576

>>2649525
Guts was the name of the story, amazing-porno-shitposter. The book is Haunted.