"If I grew old without having big regrets, I’d regret my caution."
- Chuck Palahniuk (in his AMA)
MINE
I have my hardcopy of Rant signed too! But it’s so tattered and worn - I’m bummed out I didn’t take better care of it.
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"Everything is a self-portrait. A diary. Your whole drug history’s in a strand of your hair. Your fingernails. The forensic details. The lining of your stomach is a document. The calluses on your hand tell all your secrets. Your teeth give you away. Your accent. The wrinkles around your mouth and eyes. Everything you do shows your hand."
- Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
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@chuckpalahniuk Wow. This is too amazing. (Taken with Instagram)
oh how I’d love to have him write me a note. I have two books signed by him but I have, unfortunately, never met him myself.
Haunted
By Chuck PalahniukFinally finished this book. I didn’t like how it was arranged at all. It is a collection of short stories loosely and recklessly tied together by an unexciting main ‘plot,’ but I dug his style. I’ll definitely be reading more of his novels, but I have no doubts that my introduction to Palahniuk was through his weakest work.
I have to entirely disagree. I thought this was thoroughly one of his strongest works as a writer. He worked various mechanisms, such as story metaphor, allegory, poetry, as well as sub-plots, character development, etc. in such a way that really blew me away even upon the second read. His weakest work is definitely Tell-All or Snuff. This one might be an acquired taste, since I seem to be one of the few who thinks it is his best work. But it’s a love story disguised as a horror novel. Even Stephen King praised it. I mean, the KING praised it.
I totally agree with yen-yaw. I’m not sure why more people don’t praise this novel, I love it. And yes, his weakest work is probably Tell-All (aand I kind of liked Snuff but oh well).
"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known. "
- Chuck Palahniuk - Invisible Monsters
"We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off !"
- Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)
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"The idea that I can’t share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems."
- Chuck Palahniuk
"Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you."
- Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
"Then he pictures how it’s going to look at the supermarket checkstand, the lonely carrot and petroleum jelly rolling down the conveyor-belt toward the grocery-store cashier. All the shoppers waiting in line, watching. Everyone seeing the big evening he has planned.
So, my friend, he buys milk and eggs and sugar and a carrot, all the ingredients for a carrot cake. And Vaseline.
Like he’s going home to stick a carrot cake up his butt."
- Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk
