Author: Chuck Palahniuk

OMFG HE IS PERFECT I LOVE HIM

I recently read Diary and Damned and while I like them both (Diary more than Damned) I still love Rant the best.

I found a lot of Diary hard to swallow, but I think that's what makes it so great. Damned was good, but I think it lacked that "I'm kind of super uncomfortable reading this" factor that a lot of Palahniuk's works have - and I think that factor is what makes his books so great; it makes you think and feel for the characters so much.

I never even finished Damned. Rant was one of my favourite books, Pygmy was a huge disappointment, Tell-All was, like Choke, just alright (I felt like he was plagiarising himself in T-A) and about ten pages into Damned I just put it down. Survivor, Invisible Monsters and Diary were good, Haunted and Snuff were disturbing - but Rant, Rant was so great - Chucky P what are you doing now come on.

pravda.:

I never even finished Damned. Rant was one of my favourite books, Pygmy was a huge disappointment, Tell-All was, like Choke, just alright (I felt like he was plagiarising himself in T-A) and about ten pages into Damned I just put it down. Survivor, Invisible Monsters and Diary were good, Haunted and Snuff were disturbing - but Rant, Rant was so great - Chucky P what are you doing now come on.

I think Damned gets better as you read it - it's one of those books that really builds. I think what's probably the hardest part - especially for people who are not teens - is getting into the narrative. (I get that he wanted to do the 1st person narrative right but the main character's P.O.V. isn't really easy to sit through - tedious in a lot of way, annoying in others.) But once you get past that, there's a lot of interesting stuff there and later some really good ideas are revealed.

I did find that maybe Damned was meant for a different audience, maybe a younger audience. I don't know if he intended it to be that way, but I felt it read a bit like a off-kilter YA novel.

Oh, that's interesting - I am definitely willing to give it another go, in that case. (I feel like there's a joke about damning/condemning here.) Thank you (:

I love Chuck Palahniuk, but I wish I'd have read his later books first. They are all very well written, good novels, but reading them in comparison to his earlier work almost ruined them. Pygmy was vastly interesting, Snuff was hilarious, Tell-All was fabulous in the sort of real-life-Hollywood way, but it didn't seem like I was reading Chuck Palahniuk.

I'm more than half way through Damned, and I love it. It's different to his other work, but it's brilliant. I really am eating it up. I'm such a slow reader, but I've read more than half in less than two days. (I also love The Breakfast Club though, so I LOVE the thematic links.)

Rant was wonderful, and I loved Invisible Monsters, Survivor, and Choke the most, I think. I enjoyed the 'horror trilogy', especially Haunted, but I have a huge problem with reading gore and horror so that dampened my enjoyment a little.

I also love his non-fiction work too, which I bought because I like owning all of his works, and recently I picked up a copy of the Invisible Monsters Remix, which I can't wait to get my jaw into, if you'll pardon the stretched pun.

My favorite is Invisible Monsters. All the unknown facts and history on pornography and porn stars is just perfect and hilarious.

Fugitives and Refugees, even though it's non-fiction, holds the same satiric narration that he implements in most of his books, which I think it's just great.

My least favorite one is Lullaby; I couldn't get into it. The most recent one that was published and that I must read is Damned, it sounds like he intended to make a satire out of Dante's Divine Comedy.

My favorite one(s) (is / are) Diary (and Choke). its so hard to chose between them Diary was just so perfectly twisted but not in an absolutely disgusting way, like Haunted (which was still good).

I havent been able to read any of his non-fiction, as the book stores around here dont have any in stock ever. I'm thinking about special ordering but I dont know how I'll really like them without previewing them like I could in store.

And I havent even heard about Damned. I've been out of the literature loop for some time now with school and the like. especially with 4 books i had to read in 3 months

Just finished Damned and the plot twist right at the end was just ... what?!

I didn't mind it so much, like, I thought it was an interesting direction, but it was just so random. And it didn't get resolved, we don't know for sure whether she is or not, and I guess that's the point but even so. Still a great book.

@ daisyfairy

The twist felt a bit left-field for me too. And even after I finished it (even now, months after I've finished it), I still don't know how I feel about it. It's definitely interesting, but I don't know if it's believable even within the scope of the story. It reminds me of online amateur authors who throw a twist in at the end just to keep things interesting or because they felt like they were losing the audience, and I'm not sure if it really works.

It seems like there might be a sequel - though Palaniuk isn't really known for doing sequels (would this be the first?).

@ Audrey T

I thought that about Damned too, and I looked it up online and Palahniuk said that he was doing a kind of three-part thing, like Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. I was wondering if he'd do something like Ellis does and have Maddy as a minor character, just to finish her story off a little?

I just started reading Diary. I like it quite a lot so far. It's weird though, because I am a voracious reader and yet I have somehow never read anything by Palahniuk until now. Always been meaning to, never got around to it, but I'm so glad I finally did.

literally, the only thing i read outside of Mibba is Chuck Palahniuk

i read my first book by him, Invisible Monsters, in the 7th grade and then re-read it a couple times, and pretty soon after i bought all of his books on impulse

so far I've read Invisible Monsters, Fight Club, Rant, Diary, Snuff, Haunted, Lullaby, half of Survivor, half of Damned, and parts of Tell-all and Stranger than Fiction

my favorites are probably Invisible Monsters and Rant and Haunted was absolutely mind blowing and I've probably read his short story Guts 43985349 times haha

waaaah i love his books so much it's unreal

I love him so much. I read Fight Club, how could I not? But then I read Choke & Lullaby and he's my favorite.

I honestly can't get enough of him. He's fabulous, amazing ...do I even have enough words of praise and gush in my vocabulary?

My dad's pretty easy going about books, but he's banned me from reading Chuck Palahniuk, so naturally I wanted to read it. In my house I could only find Haunted, and there's a story in there called Guts which is amazing but really disturbing. I love reading it to my guy friends that come over and watching them squirm >:)

Calling all Chuck Palahniuk fans!

While Mibba's Books section has most of Palahniuk's work listed, we're still missing a couple. If you can, please submit the missing books to Mibba's Books section. Remember the description you input must be written in your own words, not copied from another source, and you get 5 points for each book you submit. :)

Right now Snuff and both non-fiction books are missing from Mibba's database.

Fiction
- Fight Club (1996)
- Survivor (1999)
- Invisible Monsters (1999)
- Choke (2001)
- Lullaby (2002)
- Diary (2003)
- Haunted (2005)
- Rant (2007)
- [url=]Snuff (2008 )[/url]
- Pygmy (2009)
- Tell All (2010)
- Damned (2011)

Non-Fiction
- [url=]Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon (2003)[/url]
- [url=]Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories (2004)[/url]

* You can also add the books you've read to your Mibba Booklist by clicking on the links above and then clicking the "yes" button on the screen.

I idolize Chuck Palahniuk, he is amazing intelligent and true to his craft. I wish I had the work ethic he has and the guts to be as bold as he is. I can't imagine loving and isolizing another author as much as I do him.

I'm reading Haunted right now.
So far, it seems like everything I love.

I read Rant last week. TOTAL mindf***.

Okay, finished Damned. It was absolutely amazing and I love the main character. I'm about to buy Rant and Tell-All.

I also finished Haunted and it was good, but not my favorite; I got so much into it at the beginning with Saint Guts Free's horror stories about masturbation, but after that it went too bland and predictable.

Invisible Monsters is still my number one and Damned is right below it right now; third place goes to Snuff.