Guts

[Your Paragon of Virtue 0]

This is one of the more disturbing things I've come across, and is in general just fucked up. If anything it's sad just to hear about people like this pulling shit like this and having all those consequences...and having all of them know each other.

 

Don't know what I mean? Read it, at your own risk of course. I can't believe that this is the same guy that wrote Fight Club.

 

Guts

 

On the plus side, it's very well-written.

[Henry Spencer 0]

Holy shit.

[Guest Mindless_Aggression]

Eh, it's not THAT surprising that Palahniuk wrote that. It fits right into his little world in it's own way.

[Jingus 0]

Palahniuk has a track record of being one of the most graphically gory writers on the market today; Stephen King can't touch him when it comes to lovingly describing just how disgusting our innards are. Remember, there's a hell of a lot of stuff the movie version of Fight Club had to change from the book, just because they couldn't have possibly showed it and got away with it.

[LaParkaMarka 0]

I love that story. I love the ending. Chuck is great.

[Guest Choken One]

chuck is god.

[Nighthawk 0]

They should make a movie out of that.

[Guest Choken One]

I nominate that annoying kid from American Pie...ya know...the one that fucked the pie.

[The Ill One 0]

He's famous for doing book readings where people end up puking. Nice story.

[Guest Samurai Johnny Frankenstein]

They printed that in the Torrie - Sable Palyboy edition

 

Still majorly fucked up

[redbaron29 0]

I love chucks work.

 

I also pride myself on being able to sit through very graphic shit.

 

But reading the bit about sticking a rod in your cock is just too much even for me.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

I really cannot stand Chuck Palahniuk, and this story—which I read awhile ago, due to its increasing reputation as being the "most disturbing thing ever" or some such nonsense—only reinforces that he's a one-trick pony. Check out William T. Vollmann's "The Blue Yonder" (it appears in his short story collection, The Rainbow Stories) for something truly horrifying. Hell, just check out Vollmann, period. Better writer than Palahniuk, who's basically Vollmann-lite.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Count me in the middle. I've never read this Vollman character, but that wasn't too bad. I've thought of nastier shit than that. Read worse, though.

[Your Paragon of Virtue 0]

I really cannot stand Chuck Palahniuk, and this story—which I read awhile ago, due to its increasing reputation as being the "most disturbing thing ever" or some such nonsense—only reinforces that he's a one-trick pony. Check out William T. Vollmann's "The Blue Yonder" (it appears in his short story collection, The Rainbow Stories) for something truly horrifying. Hell, just check out Vollmann, period. Better writer than Palahniuk, who's basically Vollmann-lite.

But this involved mastorbation.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Vollmann covers just about every form of depravity you can imagine, so there.

[godthedog 0]

the more young, hip, indie people i come across who tell me about the last chuck palahniuk book they read, the less i want to read him. which i guess makes me anti-antiestablishment. i read the first 30 pages or so of 'fight club' and can't remember a damn thing about it. i picked up one of his books (it might have been 'choke' but i don't remember), and the first sentence was, "Do not read this book." and my first thought was, "you are not clever. i am not reading this book." and i put it down. i'm not a fan of his 'gummo' imagery, or his one-liners, or his postmodernism. he seems like just another bad ass wannabe nihilist. the fact that i see so many people now try to write like him alarms me.

[Your Paragon of Virtue 0]

Vollmann covers just about every form of depravity you can imagine, so there.

I wasn't really picking a side, I was just saying that the only reason that this really shocked me was because it had to do with people finding new and "interesting" ways to mastorbate.

 

It's also fucked up that his sister actually an abortion. Egads.

[Art Sandusky 0]

Vonnegut >>>>> Lotsa other writers > Palahniuk > Palahnuik imitators.

[godthedog 0]

wow...kotz is right.

[Art Sandusky 0]

Shocking when it happens, eh?

[Nighthawk 0]

the first sentence was, "Do not read this book." and my first thought was, "you are not clever. i am not reading this book." and i put it down.

Ha ha. You tricked him!

[godthedog 0]

the first sentence was, "Do not read this book."  and my first thought was, "you are not clever.  i am not reading this book."  and i put it down.

Ha ha. You tricked him!

i reverse psychology'ed his reverse psychology. no man can outsmart me. especially not chuck palahniuk.

[Henry Spencer 0]

I agree with Kotz. Although I do enjoy Palahniuk's work, he's overrated, and Vonnegut is my favorite author ever.

[Nighthawk 0]

By the way, my opinion is that Chuck is not a particularly "good" writer, but he is what he's advertised as, which is a kind of literary HiNRG equivalent of taking a bunch of speed at Disneyland. He's fun. His image is starting to hurt him though.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Man, there is no way a pool intake would suck someone's guts out of their ass. There's fascia and tissue holding things together, which he'd feel ripping.

[Nighthawk 0]

You'd be surprised at how common it is to lose things up your dick hole, however. I know, yeah, it's pretty common, but this is like everyday shit from the medical professionals I've talked to. Nobody ever admits they stuck it there themselves either. I mean, if you lose something up your ass, you might be able to come up with a passable explanation other than the truth, but I really can't think of too many reasons something would be lost up your dick by accident.

That's why if I ever do that, it has to be something where the end that's sticking out is way too big to get stuck, like the Arabs in the story. I showed a picture once, maybe you remember.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

I like Vonnegut, but I always get the impression that people who say he's the best writer ever probably hasn't read too many other "serious" writers.

[Nighthawk 0]

Man, this is a great thread. I love the way it's just bouncing from one extreme to the other.

 

By the way, my favorite writer is Shakespeare. That should put my taste safely outside the realm of any critique.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Shakespeare?

 

This isn't your freshman year of high school, fella.

[Nighthawk 0]

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