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256 reviews
Chuck Palahniuk

Thorndike Press, 2003

Excellent!
One of my favorite Chuck Palahniuk books, about a "culling song--" a poem that mysteriously kills people after they hear it. (I guess it was before that movie "The Ring" came out, but kind of the same concept--except you don't get seven days!!) Anyway, in true Chuck Palahniuk fashion, this book is excellent, weaving all sorts of characters together in a sick, twisted, lovely little tale.

Snuff
Chuck Palahniuk

Doubleday, 2008

From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, a full-frontal Triple X novel that goes where no American work of fiction has gone before Cassie Wright, porn priestess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication. On camera. With six hundred men. Snuff unfolds from the perspectives of Mr. 72, Mr. 137, and Mr. 600, who await their turn on camera in a very crowded green room. This wild, ...

Fight Club: A Novel

628 reviews
Chuck Palahniuk

W. W. Norton, 2005

Fight Club:The novel for our generation.
Fight Club makes such a clear point about today's society. The apathetic nature of our generation allows us to search for something better without us being willing to actually create something better for ourselves. So instead of creation we are drawn to destruction- the new form of creation. Fight Club is a beautifully written satire that intrigues the reader from the very start.

Haunted: A Novel

85 reviews
Chuck Palahniuk

Anchor, 2006

Reality Run Amok, Really Amok
If you like your reality amok, try The Game, Dead Famous, and Rabid: A Novel, in addition to Chuck's Amok Deep-Fried Ducks. Chuck loves his blood, gore, and piss, and these all dump like scalding coffee out of an upended catering vat through this book. The stories of each of the writers locked up in Big Brother lockdown is gruesome. Damn, but this book is fine. The Bookeater!

Invisible Monsters

276 reviews
Chuck Palahniuk

W. W. Norton & Company, 1999

A fun book that stays with you
A pre-op transsexual and a mutilated model go on a road trip across America, stealing and selling prescription drugs from the bathrooms of expensive houses that are for sale, along the way. Sounds like the plot of a Pedro Almodovar film and it is every bit as weird and enjoyable (as an aside, people who like this book should see "All About My Mother" - this book reminded me a lot of that film). ...

Haunted : A Novel of Stories

181 reviews
Chuck Palahniuk

Doubleday, 2005

Chuck's entertaining and exploratory adventure into horror
Overall, Palahniuk did a marvelous job of cobbling disparate stories into the framework of a writer's retreat. The story 'Guts' is nearly the most awful thing you'll read, personally I thought the worse thing i read was the story of the police rape doll story. It changed my life: yet I cannot say for the better. I cannot eat southern biscuits and that white gravy anymore, for example. ...

Diary: A Novel

189 reviews
Chuck Palahniuk

Anchor, 2004

Amazing
This is the best book I've ever read in my entire life, and believe me, I've read very, very many. I'm an artist, so I really connected with the main character Misty. The twists and turns are truly unpredictable and shocking. I started this book in the evening, and couldn't put it down all night. It was really an outstanding novel, with something for everyone to enjoy. The amazing truth in this ...

Asfixia 21/ Choke (Debolsillo)

442 reviews
Chuck Palahniuk, 2004

Five stars...
Out of Palahniuk's first four novels, this one is the one that I have enjoyed the most. All of them deal with themes relevant to contemporary culture, but he chooses different aspects of that culture and provides a satirical narrative intended to shock the reader into thinking about the questions his stories raise. Fight Club dealt with consumerism, Survivor with commercialized religiosity, ...

Survivor

370 reviews
Chuck Palahniuk

Blackstone Audiobooks, 2006

Fantastic book...
This book is easily one of the best novels I have ever read. Survivor is just as good as Fight Club, both are equally entertaining. Palahniuk paints vivid characters and settings with his words, you do not have to struggle to imagine who or what he incorporates into his books. This book takes aim with religious fanatics and the obsession over the apocalypse. Chuck Palahniuk offers refreshing and ...

Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

98 reviews
Chuck Palahniuk

Anchor Canada, 2008

spoiler alert
best written incorporation of time travel ive ever read. you would have to give those thousand monkeys on typewriters a thousand miligrams of whatever this guys on to ever recreate such a marvelous piece.

Non-Fiction
Chuck Palahniuk

Random House Uk Ltd, 2005

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics)
Ken Kesey

Penguin Classics, 2007

A visually arresting deluxe edition of Ken Kesey’s counterculture classic Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Now in a new deluxe edition with a foreword by Chuck Palahniuk and cover by Joe Sacco, here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, ...

Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon (Crown Journeys)

33 reviews
Chuck Palahniuk

Crown, 2003

Interesting, offbeat
This collection is an idiosyncratic and appealing mix of off-the-beaten-path sights for the visitor to Portland, personal anecdotes of the author, and brief essays about the history of Portland and its defining vibes. Entertaining and enjoyable.

Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories

Anchor, 2005

From the bestselling author of Fight Club and Diary , a collection of essays and journalistic pieces that prove that real life has imagination beaten cold in the strangeness and wonder departments Chuck Palahniuk’s world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. The pieces that comprise Stranger Than Fiction , his first nonfiction collection, prove just how different, in ways both highly entertaining and deeply ...

Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories

25 reviews
Chuck Palahniuk

Doubleday, 2004

Better Than I Expected!
These stories reveal a more personal side of Palahniuk that you may not have even realized was there. They're hopeful, inspirational, and as always, completely outrageous. These are not the typical quasi-horror stories Chuck has written in the past. But they are excellent stories, and I applaud Chuck for trying something new. I think he did an amazing job with it, and if you like Palahniuk at ...

Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories

24 reviews
Chuck Palahniuk

Anchor, 2005

Enjoyable read
Interesting true stories told well. One story offering some insight into the man? A departure for Palahniuk but one of my favorites of his.

Clown Girl: A Novel

31 reviews
Monica Drake

Hawthorne Books, 2007

I love Clown Girl...
...the book, yeah. But I'm talking about the character. She's sick and cute and unsure of herself and I fell in love with her. She's like a sick little lost puppy you just want to take home and nurse back to health. This book is so endearing without being at all sentimental. Awesome read from a great new voice in literature.

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