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| Original Title: | Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories |
| ISBN: | 0385722222 (ISBN13: 9780385722223) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://chuckpalahniuk.net/books/stranger-than-fiction |
Chuck Palahniuk
Paperback | Pages: 233 pages Rating: 3.57 | 21332 Users | 808 Reviews
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| Title | : | Stranger than Fiction |
| Author | : | Chuck Palahniuk |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 233 pages |
| Published | : | May 10th 2005 by Anchor (first published June 15th 2004) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Writing. Essays. Short Stories |
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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.Rating About Books Stranger than Fiction
Ratings: 3.57 From 21332 Users | 808 ReviewsCrit About Books Stranger than Fiction
*Official rating is 3.5, but always round up!Collections of short works are tricky things to review. I say this almost every bloody time I review one. The reason being that each story or article or piece is inevitably pitted against one another in terms of likeability, and by a law of averages certain ones swim while other sink. A talent-fueled tale, followed by an even better one, tends to devalue the first.This is often the case with Palahniuk's 'Stranger Than Fiction'. This book was on myPalahniuk is right. These essays of his are most certainly stranger than fiction. Just from the every first essay alone, youre hoping that hes making all this up. But no. The annual Rock Creek Lodge Testicle Festival just outside of Missoula, MT, detailed in the aptly-titled Testy Festy, is the kind of bizarre and mind-boggling public orgy that you think can or should, rather exist only in the most perverted of minds. (The shocking writing and fantasy worlds of Marquis de Sade comes readily to
I don't yet have the stomach for Chuck Palahniuk's fiction. I've tried reading pretty much all of his novels and 'Fight Club' is the only one I've been able to finish, and that's because I'd seen the movie and pretty much knew what was going to happen. His writing is just so over-the-top graphic, filled with human suffering and self-loathing that for me they're too much of a mental, emotional, and physical workout to get through. But at the same time I would like to one day be able to read his
Palahniuk is right. These essays of his are most certainly stranger than fiction. Just from the every first essay alone, youre hoping that hes making all this up. But no. The annual Rock Creek Lodge Testicle Festival just outside of Missoula, MT, detailed in the aptly-titled Testy Festy, is the kind of bizarre and mind-boggling public orgy that you think can or should, rather exist only in the most perverted of minds. (The shocking writing and fantasy worlds of Marquis de Sade comes readily to
Though this is Non-fiction, it still delivers the best of Chuck Palahniuk We all know Chuck Palahniuk right?Even if you haven't read him, you probably know what he represents.That's not him, that's Henry Rollins, but you get the point.Palahniuk is the white male that has found a way out of a life of corporate unfulfillment. He is the fellow captured soldier who escaped past the POW fence one night.Even though you are still in the cage, you cheer him on with your fellow captured soldiers. You
This might be a bit of a cheat but I'm going to consider this one done and finished even though I didn't read the entire book. The problem was that I lost the book before I could finish it. Actually I know exactly where it was last left: in the pocket of my airline seat on a flight to Washington D.C. I just plain forgot it there. I'm pretty sure it's the first time I've ever done so. Anyway, if I was truly enjoying the book, I would hunt down a new copy or buy the ebook. However, I wasn't really
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