Comments on: Things he do

By: Sarah Dobbs

Sarah Dobbs — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:18:24 +0000

Yeah, it’s his writing style I object to. He uses way too many pronouns, it’s infuriating. I read Fight Club, Lullaby, Invisible Monsters, Choke, and Survivor before I figured out I was never going to warm to him.

By: J. Hunt

J. Hunt — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:57:29 +0000

Haha! Palahniuk’s not so bad, though I admit he’s something of an acquired taste. His writing style is so similar in every books that if you don’t like one, you can pretty much write his entire canon of work off. It’s rare to see a writer like that, where the author seems to come through stronger than the story.

Even for me, his books are only about 50/50, and it’s too early to tell whether Rant is going to turn out as one of the good or bad ones. I thought his last book, Haunted, was an excellent piece of work, though.

By: Sarah Dobbs

Sarah Dobbs — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:45:07 +0000

This is… weird. Are you me? I thought all of the exact same things about Diary of the Dead, and all of the exact same things about the film of America Unchained.

The only reassuring thing is that you like Chuck Palahniuk, so you definitely couldn’t have stolen my brain. Ick.

And I guess I quite liked The Gum Thief…