what are /lit/izens opinions on ole Chucky Palahniuk? After

>>8408746
So you were a pleb all along...

Only people I've known who read him were dumbfucks

>>8408746
I've only read choke but i fucking hated it honestly it was so ham fisted with its ideas and I haven't read fight club but I've seen the movie and it's basically the same story

>>8408763
the film is better, more streamlined and better ending

>>8408746
Edgy teenage me one hundred years ago thought a couple of his books were OK but most of them were just edgy shit and even the 'good' ones devolved into edgy shit somewhere near the end.

I also thought the star wars books I read at the time were better written and more mature. I maintain that this is still the case, despite the star wars books being churned out shit.

>>8408746
I enjoyed Fight Club, don't want to be hipster but I preferred it to the movie, not to say the movie isn't good, it's still fantastic and worthy of watching. If anything, the book lets you appreciate the movie more.

However, I don't think I want to read more of his books if they have the same tone as Fight Club - it's very dreary.

You have to read him at the right time. I loved all his shit in highschool but I tried to pick up Damned and either my tastes had changed, or he ran out of ideas. Or both.

>>8408882
One trick pony isn't the right word but it's the first word that comes to mind.

>>8408746
invisible monsters is good and so is survivor

why does he look like aids in that picture?

>mentioning Joyce will somehow make your opinion more valid
Neck thy self

>>8409357
he's gay

>>8409397
ummm, homophobic much?

>>8409410
that's like saying someone is racist for acknowledging that black people are more likely to be involved in criminal activity.

>>8409410
This means nothing.

>>8408746
He's crude, and not in a clever way. You have to enjoy basking in filth a little, just to root around in it. I'd agree his prose is still good, and his plots lie somewhere between pop novel and meaningful literature. I enjoy his novels as well.

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>>8409418

Edgefag pseud. Not meaningful for adults.

I read Pygmy and after that I never ever want to read another thing by him ever again.

Is Palahnuik similar to Irvine Welsh then?

>>8410246
damn i wish i was as mature as u

post a photo so we can see what a true 'lectual looks like.

>>8410535
Yes

Haunted was good. Liked fight club well enough but the other four or five I read all kinda blended together. Same shit over and over, just worded slightly differently

>>8408746
Invisible Monsters, Fight Club, Haunted, and Non-Fiction were all pretty good. A lot of his other stuff blends into one desu

>>8408746
Is that the guy who played the racist bisexual pedophile on prisonbreak?