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He's my favorite author. Wrote Fight Club which was turned into the movie with Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. Anyway, if you liked Jen Government, you'll love this guys stuff.

Meh--Fight Club may have been good, but I've read a couple of his recent short stories in Playboy--I do so read the articles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!--and they're okay, but nothing special. Good ideas, but iffy execution.

I read Survivor and it's pretty good. I have Lullaby but it's still in the "to read" pile.

I've read Fight Club, survivor, and Diary. I have most of his others in my 'to read' pile... but there are many books in that pile.
He's pretty cool, but a lot of his stories go unexplained it seems...that and his style is ludicrously pretentious at times. I love it though...possibly because I'm just as arrogant!

I've read Fight Club, survivor, and Diary. I have most of his others in my 'to read' pile... but there are many books in that pile.

Yeah. Stupid "to read" pile, keeps growing faster than the "read" pile.

Tell me about it. I have about ten there at this moment in time. The worst thing is, most of them are presents from the last Christmas, from family would you believe. So when I get approached by them with the dreaded question: "Have you read _________ yet?" I usually make for the skies, if I'm lucky and have the ability to fly that day. In actuality I mumble something and hope it turns out with me living afterwards.

Yeah chuck is good

Never read any of his other books besides Fight Club though..

The writing in fight club is so raw so ultra depressing so ego driving...its just amazing

quotes...........


You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.


You aren't alive anywhere like you're alive at fight club.... Fight club isn't about winning or losing fights. Fight club isn't about words. You see a guy come to fight club for the first time, and his ass is a loaf of white bread. You see this same guy here six months later, and he looks carved out of wood. This guy trusts himself to handle anything. There's grunting and noise at fight club like at the gym, but fight club isn't about looking good. There's hysterical shouting in tongues like at church, and when you wake up Sunday afternoon you feel saved.


I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, "Why?" Why did I cause so much pain? Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? Can't I see how we're all manifestations of love? I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, "No, that's not right." Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything

I met him, touched him, talked to him about success and failures, listened to his ideas in his upcoming book, especially the bottom of the pool (pearl-diving) anecdote ... he gave some perversely good advice, as he so often does - and i got him to sign a book for a friend of mine, saying hello to a fellow sex fiend.
Yep. I read about 30 some-odd pages while in line for the signing, in Anchorage at Title Wave Books.
He's funny but it's fairly obvious he's a little off-kilter.
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I've read Choke, it was ok, but nothing special. Maybe Fight Club is better, I wouldn't buy it though.

I met him, touched him, talked to him about success and failures, listened to his ideas in his upcoming book, especially the bottom of the pool (pearl-diving) anecdote ... he gave some perversely good advice, as he so often does - and i got him to sign a book for a friend of mine, saying hello to a fellow sex fiend.
Yep. I read about 30 some-odd pages while in line for the signing, in Anchorage at Title Wave Books.
He's funny but it's fairly obvious he's a little off-kilter.
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That's sweet. I own and have read every one of his books besides Haunted. I tried at my local Barnes and Noble but they didn't have a copy. I'll check again tho. Can't wait to get it.

Guts nearly made me vomit.

That's sweet. I own and have read every one of his books besides Haunted. I tried at my local Barnes and Noble but they didn't have a copy. I'll check again tho. Can't wait to get it.
His presentation, i guess, was about how to take care of the broken parts of yourselves, the recessed parts of yourselves - by being as graphic and potentially entertaining as possible over the most macabre and perverse things that you might have had happen to you or you may have initiated/participated in/performed but how it brought some kind of unspeakable shame or stigma to you. I think that actually sums it up - making the unspeakable speakable, therefore not being at its mercy.
Get this - he had booked this thing about a year in advance, and the week before there was a guest speaker who'd gotten caught in a crag and had to carve off his own arm in order to break free of his harness and climb out. Chuck had ordered a bunch of spare plastic body parts that he was going to (and did) sign and toss to the audience members who had bothered to ante up their stories to him. The box showed up a week early. Just imagine what the people at Title Wave thought!!!
We all laughed but we're pretty sure someone took it personally although it was just another in a series of beautiful coincidences.

BTW - I think he said they're gonna make a film version of "Choke".

He was funny but WAYY f*cked up.
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He was funny but WAYY f*cked up.
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That's why they way I like my authors.

One of my favorite authors too. Lullaby was actually my favorite, but I haven't read his new one yet.

I love this guy, everything he writes is just in a great style. Reminds me of what would happen if you crossed Douglas Coupland with J.D. Salinger.
I've got all of his stuff except the new Haunted, and my copy of Choke is signed. He came to Toronto and did a filming for BookTV here, then we got to ask him questions. The guy's hillarious, too. Doesn't seem like an author.