Hello

[killercalixte]

Thought I would join and as I have joined thought I would post to introduce myself.

I'm a pretty big Palahniuk fan, his book being the first book being aimed at a target audience for adults that I actually read and well reading Invisible Monsters as a 14 year old was pretty intense.

Since then I've pretty much fallen for his style and it's heavily

Comments

[dominationx]

we have a lot in common, I read Invisible Monsters young (13, wow), I'm in the UK, and I love Morrissey.

I would recommend Survivor for your next read.
And as for the Choke movie, there was just so much about it I didn't like! I just think that watching Fight Club, it's just dripping with Palahniuk and his style, and Choke, just..wasn't. It wasn't even funny when it tried to be.
I'd love to see Haunted made into a movie, but only if it's made right, it could be a disaster if not. :/

[killercalixte]

Ah morrissey and palahniuk, my two utter vices! You're right about fight club, it was just everything i expect when i read a palahniuk book you know, just the imagery and the darkness and all of it, after that any film has to live up to the interpretation of that film, thankyou for your advice and ah haunted is my FAVOURITE and i always get abit worried when film rumours are sparked, it's such an immense story to bring justice too, it can't be easily done! ah nice to meet you on here (: look forward to talking more x

[soomka]

Heeeyyy, fellow UK fan here.
I think (I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm just imagining this) he's done UK tours in the past. Rather brief ones though.

Have to agree with dominationx and say that the Choke movie really didn't work out. Even though I really liked Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Houston in the roles, somehow the actual plot and, crucially, the jokes just didn't translate to the big screen that well.
Though it did have a lot to live up to considering how great the Fight Club movie is.

[soomka]

have you ever seen him? gosh i'd love to go and meet him and hear him read his works!

[shaebay]

Rant and Survivor are my two favorites of his. I adored Snuff. I wasn't a giant fan of Choke, and found it much more engaging as a movie, which led me to like the book more (which is all sorts of weird).

[cupcake_razor]

oh yes

rant is pretty good, too!

[sonadora9]

Welcome! :)

I agree with above comment -- check out "Survivor." It's pretty good. "Snuff" was, I thought, fairly predictable, and a quick read in not-the-best of ways. As for "Choke" movie -- I enjoyed it in some respects, but not so much as a film adaptation of the book.

[drag0nf1y]

My absolute favorite has, and always will be his first novel, Invisible Monsters (Those who are true Chuck fans know what I mean when I say Invisible Monsters was first, not Fight Club).

Your next book should probably be Choke, then Survivor, followed by Rant ... Then, tackle Snuff and Pygmy.

Fight Club as a film adaptation was great and it finally gave us Chuck fans a new favorite flick and a mainstream way to taint the non-Chuckies. Choke, I personally felt wasn't as grand a film as it could have been, but since I still adore Mr. Palahniuk, I savored every frame of film ...

(Anyone else secretly hope when you saw it at the cinema that there would be a single frame of porn spliced in as an homage to Fight Club?)

[killercalixte]

ah i forgot to mention i had read rant also! wasn't as drawn into that as much as the others but still a very good! Thankyou for the advice x