What's /lit/'s opinion on Chuck Palahniuk?

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What's /lit/'s opinion on Chuck Palahniuk? Anonymous 11/23/15 (Mon) 22:25:35 No.7657

I'm not sure if his writing was always shit, or if he sorta just became a James Patterson/ Danielle Steel-ish "crank them out by the truckload" sort of author.

I think the last novel by him I tried to read was Diary before the main character's writing style just shut me out.

Anonymous 11/24/15 (Tue) 13:48:07 No.7664

i only know that i sort of liked fight club, that i thought that it made more sense than the movie under many aspects and that the ending was better and more appropriate than the movie.

Anonymous 11/24/15 (Tue) 17:44:25 No.7665

>>7664

I felt the movie ending made pragmatic changes for the sake of spectacle (a movie needs a spectacular visual climax).

Anyway, My favorites were Fight Club, Lullaby, Choke and Rant. Something about Diary just really rubbed me the wrong way.

Maybe I'll try and pick up another one of his books. Pygmy sounds like a good "breakaway" from his usual style.

Anonymous 11/24/15 (Tue) 20:00:22 No.7666

>>7665

Pygmy… is a very good story but it has crossed the Trainspotting axis of comprehensibility. You will always be spending about as much time deciphering as reading, which can weaken the effect of the story. Pygmy is very experimental, and should be read as such.

If you wanna know where I gave up on him, I'm gonna cite Damned. Putting yourself in the book, as satan, is something edgy teenagers do and it is NEVER done well.

Anonymous 11/24/15 (Tue) 20:03:50 No.7667

>>7666

However, i will always recommend Rant, Survivor, Fight Club, and Choke to anyone, and people who like his style will like Invisible Monsters (though the remix thing was just about the most annoying goddamn book I have EVER read). Up until that point, i described him as batting 50-50. For every book that just blew my fucking mind, there was something just… bleh. Like Lullaby, snuff, and Diary. Only one that i'm kinda half-in on is Tell-All. But damned was fucking TERRIBLE, and i couldn't bring myself to read doomed. His short work was pretty good though. Phoenix and… fuck, the other one he did, were interesting. I liked them.

Anonymous 11/24/15 (Tue) 22:56:03 No.7669

>>7667

Alright, so I guess I'm not an outright pleb for liking him. I do so like his no nonsense non-fluff prose, but the edgy self loathing protagonist voice gets incredibly grating incredibly fast.

I always liked what an interesting mish mash of everything Rant was. Mad Max + Donnie Darko/Back to the Future in a midwest/ southern shithole. The Boosting Peaks setting detail sort of feels like a retroactive criticism on technology too. Smartphones and escapist technology and all that.