Author:Chuck Palahniuk Binding: Paperback Published: 2005-05-10 ISBN: 0385722222 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
"Not Chuck's best..."
"Mostly boring.........."
"Guilt & Redemption"
"Enjoyable read"
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Editorial Review:
Chuck Palahniuk's world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. In his first collection of nonfiction, Chuck Palahniuk brings us into this world, and gives us a glimpse of what inspires his fiction. At the Rock Creek Lodge Testicle Festival in Missoula, Montana, average people perform public sex acts on an outdoor stage. In a mansion once occupied by The Rolling Stones, Marilyn Manson reads his own Tarot cards and talks sweetly to his beautiful actress girlfriend. Across the country, men build their own full-size castles and rocketships that will send them into space. Palahniuk himself experiments with steroids, works on an assembly line by day and as a hospice volunteer by night, and experiences the brutal murder of his father by a white supremacist. With this new direction, Chuck Palahniuk has proven he can do anything.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Not Chuck's best... Some of these stories lived up to "Stranger Than Fiction", but some fell a little flat for me. I thought all stories would have me googling "is that real??". Not a bad book and worth a read for the half of the stories that do you have you wondering if it could even possibly be true (that first one I thought for sure was made up). Wow. Read if you are a Chuck P fan, you'll appreciate the dark humor of it.
Mostly boring.......... this book is not that good... the book is 23 random stories, all different, mostly boring, a few unique one story that almost put me to sleep is about a demolition derby where they use combines (tractors) instead of cars, BORING!!! another stinker around 30 pages long about men who build castles and live in them, SNOOZE!!!! if you want to read the best stories here are a few worthy of at least reading once: "The People Can", "Reading Yourself", "Bodhisattvas",
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Guilt & Redemption Reading Chuck Palahniuk's collection of oddball 'strange-but-true' stories, articles written for various magazines about twisted people and their twisted little hobbies, is like watching "America's Most Terrifying Videos" or reading "Ripley's Believe It or Not." You feel guilty for enjoying the freak show... but not enough to stop reading. The book isn't that thick, and there are 23 chapters so each one makes a pretty good (and somehow appropriate) bathroom companion. There are chapters guaranteed to offend... more info
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.
