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Posted by fitom tiel on Jun-22-2004 14:33:

Stranger Than Fiction

just a reminder that Palahniuk's new book, Stranger Than Fiction - True Stories, is out.

quote:
what is stranger than fiction?

Chuck Palahniuk's world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. The pieces that comprise Stranger than Fiction, his first nonfiction collection, prove just how different, in ways both highly entertaining and deeply unsettling.

Included are encounters with alternative culture heroes Marilyn Manson and Juliette Lewis; the peculiar wages of fame attendant on the big-budget film production of the movie Fight Club; life as an assembly-line drivetrain installer by day, hospice volunteer driver by night; the really peculiar lives of submariners; the really violent world (and mangled ears) of college wrestlers; the underground world of iron-pumping anabolic-steroid gobblers; the immensely upsetting circumstances of his father's murder and the trial of his killer.

Each essay or vignette offers a unique facet of existence as lived in and/or observed by one of our most flagrantly daring and original literary talents.

http://www.randomhouse.com/doubleda...hniuk/stranger/

gonna go try to find it today.

enjoy

Posted by Spad on Jun-22-2004 14:54:

I'm going to risk abuse and say I don't really like his writing style. He has really, really, really good ideas. But I mean, Fight Club was blatently a better film than it was a book. I read Survivor and just finished it thinking "great story, badly told".

Jeff Noon's where I go for all my fucked up stuff