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Post by Drew on Feb 3, 2011 14:49:36 GMT -8
God what a beautiful poem. I'm all about a poetry thread, but I don't know if it would really get off the ground.
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Post by Switch on Feb 6, 2011 15:13:45 GMT -8
This is mainly directed to HG because I know he is a fan of Claypool but has anyone read his novel and, if so, is it any good?
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kaeso
Baby Eating Ice Cream
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Post by kaeso on Feb 10, 2011 16:34:42 GMT -8
Read love song for a class on modernism last semester...it really resonated with the balding middle aged man in me.
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Post by Horned Gramma on Feb 10, 2011 17:32:25 GMT -8
I haven't read 'South of the Pumphouse'. I've been meaning to.
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Post by J. Walter Weatherman on Mar 5, 2011 0:48:00 GMT -8
Pahlaniuk- favorites, least favorites, ones you haven't read, the best one for another movie. Go.
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chaco
Grunting Yowie
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Post by chaco on Mar 5, 2011 1:14:38 GMT -8
Favorite: Probably Fight Club- it's such a classic!
Movie Adaptation: Haunted- I think the format of the book would be an awkward translation, but I'd be interested in seeing it done.
Also, just want to say that I'm quite eager for the release of Damned. Breakfast Club meets Dante's Inferno? Sign me up.
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Post by J. Walter Weatherman on Mar 5, 2011 1:21:50 GMT -8
Oh my god, if they could figure out a way to do Haunted that would be amazing. Probably my second favorite. First favorite? Rant. Far and away. Can't wait until the rest of that trilogy comes out. Least favorite? Snuff. By far.
I haven't read pygmy, but I've read everything else, I'm pretty sure.
I would love if they could make rant a movie, but that would be probably the hardest to adapt. I hope Invisible monsters is good.
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chaco
Grunting Yowie
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Post by chaco on Mar 5, 2011 1:48:55 GMT -8
It's funny that you picked Snuff as your least favorite. In general I would say that the aforementioned "unrequited kinship" has kept me reading Palahniuk's books simply because he wrote them. Snuff is an exception to this rule (it just didn't look interesting), and I still haven't gotten around to reading it.
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Post by J. Walter Weatherman on Mar 5, 2011 1:54:15 GMT -8
I've always read everything because I assumed that they would all have some merit to them. Now, I'm not saying Snuff doesn't have ANY merit, just... not much, ya know?
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Post by Horned Gramma on Mar 5, 2011 9:30:32 GMT -8
Snuff had absolutely no merit.
Haunted was filth. I won't say that it didn't have a few moments that impressed me, but by and large I regret having read it. Same goes for Choke.
Pygmy was awesome. Once you get into the rhythm of that book it's just really good.
Rant is undoubtedly the best, by such an enormous margin it's ridiculous. And I always have a soft spot for Survivor.
I've read everything he's published except for this last one that came out; after reading Snuff, I just can't do it anymore. Can't or won't. Unless/until the other two parts of the Rant trilogy come out, I'm entirely done with Palahniuk.
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Post by stamper on Mar 5, 2011 9:32:26 GMT -8
I'm entirely done with Palahniuk. hear, hear! |
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Post by J. Walter Weatherman on Mar 5, 2011 10:38:31 GMT -8
I'm entirely done with Palahniuk. hear, hear! |
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Post by J. Walter Weatherman on Mar 5, 2011 10:40:17 GMT -8
And Gramma, I am so glad to hear that someone was as into rant as I was. None of my other Chuck reading friends liked it! I guess it might have been too high concept. Cause man, when you get to the last couple of chapters, it is some heady shit.
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Post by Horned Gramma on Mar 5, 2011 10:51:20 GMT -8
No doubt. I mean, obviously he spent substantially more time writing that one than he did with Snuff or Pygmy, and it shows in the quality of the prose and the complexity of the ideas. The whole second half of that book was truly mind-expanding.
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Post by J. Walter Weatherman on Mar 5, 2011 10:52:48 GMT -8
Do you think he'll ever finish it? I've been worried since I finished it that he wouldn't. And he just keeps writing other shit, doesn't he. Ugh.
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Post by Horned Gramma on Mar 5, 2011 10:56:05 GMT -8
He said he was going to alternate entries in the Rant trilogy with other, unrelated books. By my count, there have been three novels since Rant - one a year, like clockwork - and not one has been even distantly connected to Rant.
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Post by J. Walter Weatherman on Mar 5, 2011 10:58:31 GMT -8
Goddamnit... Goddamnit.
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Post by Cysquatch on Mar 5, 2011 12:53:59 GMT -8
The only Tom Robbins book I've read is Another Road Side Attraction. I've wanted to read more work of his. Since I went back to school last year all I have been reading are technical books.
Any body have a chance to read any Bentley Little. That's some weird shit.
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Post by StormyPinkness on Mar 5, 2011 14:09:03 GMT -8
I adore Tom Robbins, I would recommend reading Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates if you don't already have another in mind.
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Post by interstateeight on Mar 5, 2011 15:27:50 GMT -8
This blows my mind because I thought Palahniuk had more or less stopped publishing things once I turned 20.
Terribly boring anecdote: For my high school creative writing class, I wrote a (god awful) story that sounded like a 17-year-old trying to write like Chuck Palahniuk. To give my teacher (I was in love with her) an idea of what I was going for, I brought in the recently published "Guts." Trivia points to the first person to correctly identify the publication and thus the punchline to this story.
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