Non-Fiction Chuck Palahniuk
From my favourite writer Chuck Palahniuk, the bestselling author of “Fight Club” and “Diary,” a collection of essays and journalistic pieces that attempts (with some sucess) to prove that ‘real life’ is just as odd as ‘make-believe’. This is his first nonfiction collection and is both highly entertaining and deeply unsettling, like I think his world has always been. Each story offers a unique angle of existence as lived in and/or observed by the man himself, covering combine racing, castle builders and Juliette Lewis to name but a few. I didn’t enjoy this as much as I have his make-believe stories, but I think that was me, and not the book.
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I have read all Chuck Palahniuk’s books (including his tavelbook Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk Through Portland, Oregon) and most say that I partly agree - Non-Fiction isn’t as good as his fiction books; but so isn’t his books post 9/11.
After 9/11 his writing change a bit.
And I see that as stronger and more significant change than this non-fictions book compared to his fiction.
I really didn’t like Diary and Haunted as much as Fight Club, Invisible Monster, Surviver and Chock.
Chuck’s new book, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey is coming out in May.
I have pre-ordered it and I am keeping my hopes up.