Only Chuck Palahniuk
Only Chuck would be able to take 24 short stories he has written over the years and quilt them together into a seamless 400 page novel. Twenty-four unrelated topics blended together to make something close to a masterpiece.
"In the end, it's never what you worry about that gets you."
"What you have to love about drinking is, every swallow is an irrevocable decision. You charging ahead, in control of the game. It's the same with pills, sedatives, painkillers, every swallow is a definite first step down some road."
"Nothing happened, and nothing kept happening."
"That's why we love conflict, he says. We love to hate. To stop a war, we declare war on it. We must wipe out poverty. We must fight hunger. We capaign and challenge and defeat and destroy.
As human beings our first commandment is:
Something needs to happen."
~Chuck Palahniuk, HAUNTED
He can actually use words as a weapon. How can you not love that? Repeatedly I keep stopping and looking up from the book, thinking to myself, 'God, he's good.' I've read over fifty or sixty books in the last two years, and I can tell you I don't often say that, let alone saying it often during the first 100 pages.
"In the end, it's never what you worry about that gets you."
"What you have to love about drinking is, every swallow is an irrevocable decision. You charging ahead, in control of the game. It's the same with pills, sedatives, painkillers, every swallow is a definite first step down some road."
"Nothing happened, and nothing kept happening."
"That's why we love conflict, he says. We love to hate. To stop a war, we declare war on it. We must wipe out poverty. We must fight hunger. We capaign and challenge and defeat and destroy.
As human beings our first commandment is:
Something needs to happen."
~Chuck Palahniuk, HAUNTED
He can actually use words as a weapon. How can you not love that? Repeatedly I keep stopping and looking up from the book, thinking to myself, 'God, he's good.' I've read over fifty or sixty books in the last two years, and I can tell you I don't often say that, let alone saying it often during the first 100 pages.