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Old 6th August 2008, 12:29am   #61
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Re: What Did You Just Finish?

A piece of cake by cupcake brown ***
curious incident of the night time by mark haddon *
virgin suicides by someone eugenides *****
negative space by zoe strachan NO STARS
the girls by lori lansens **
nearly finished two caravans by marina lewycka *****

and a couple others i've forgotten i think.

all in the past 2 days

am i the only who who thought chuck's Rant was his worst novel yet? Not including Non-Fiction.
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Old 6th August 2008, 12:52am   #62
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Re: What Did You Just Finish?

Probably. Rant was pretty great, I reckon. Choke and Haunted really pushed him over the edge for me, as far as being sick of his same tired nihilistic prose.
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Re: What Did You Just Finish?

A fair bit of the stuff he's writting now veers more into "horror" territory.

Makes me worry he's gonna metamorphose into the "new Stephen King" any day now...
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I'd be fine with that.
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Re: What Did You Just Finish?

Stephen King is far too over rated. I wish Chuck Palahniuk hadn't become such a 'trend'.
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Probably. Rant was pretty great, I reckon. Choke and Haunted really pushed him over the edge for me, as far as being sick of his same tired nihilistic prose.
didn't really like Diary or Lullaby
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Re: What Did You Just Finish?

Child of God by Cormac McCarthy

An interesting if way too brief tale of the story of a young Tennesee backwoodsman, released from prison all to early who then embarks on a total degradation trip throughout the countryside.

Went pretty slow at first but McCarthy's almost poetic writing style makes it beautiful reading.
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didn't really like Diary or Lullaby
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validate your opinion or at least elaborate so that we might have some insight into this madness.
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Why?
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Re: What Did You Just Finish?

Why not?
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validate your opinion or at least elaborate so that we might have some insight into this madness.
I read them a couple of years ago and can't remember them in great detail, so forgive my vagueness.

Basically I had just read Fight Club and Survivor and loved them both, but then read Lullaby and Diary but realised they were in the exact same style but I personally didn't like them as much.

lots his characters have really similar elements and bore me,
quite liked lots of the stories in haunted, but not the inbetween chapters.
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I wish Chuck Palahniuk hadn't become such a 'trend'.
Being fair, his writing career was born off the back of a movie.

I quite liked Survivor and Invisible Monsters, but he's just not a good enough writer to hold my attention for any length of time.
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Re: What Did You Just Finish?

I don't think it still counts as a trend after nine years.
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Re: What Did You Just Finish?

Depends on what scale you're talking.

I also didn't know he still wrote books, or that anyone still bought them, so I'm obviously out of touch with the trend.
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Re: What Did You Just Finish?

I think he moved beyond being hep and into the hardcore fanbase stage a wee while back. His hardcore fanbase is vast though.
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