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Apr 30, 2013 04:23PM
Just finished this one. Loved it. My favorite stories were Guts and Exodus. Anyone else read this and have a favorite story?
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Haunted us one of my least favorite Palahniuk novels. It didn't really flow for me. I do however love a few if the short stories from it. Product Placement, Guts ( of course) are awesome!
Guts was great. Took awhile for the book to get me hooked, but it did. Loved it.
I really enjoyed that one. I liked the stories of each individual as well as the preludes to each (little poems etc...). I wasn't a huge fan of what was going on within the writers' workshop situation. But overall, I really enjoyed it and Guts was my favorite. Nothing beats his book Rant though.
I thought this was a really smart book, as I was reading it I thought the writers retreat sounded familiar to me luckily Chuck mentions this in the story.Fav story has to be about the nightmare box, I would freak out deciding whether to look in it or not... probably would.
Sometimes with my favorite authors, I have very high expectations when I sit down to read a new book by them. That is how it was with Haunted; I started reading and I liked some of the stories, but all those sections with the characters trapped in the theater, I just couldn't push through that so I stopped. I put it aside and figured I'd have to come back to it some time down the road. And, I will go back and push ahead and read it. Sometimes with a great author, they are ahead of me, and I have to take a run at their new books more than once. This happens to me with William Gibson almost every time.
Maybe read up on Lord Byron and the retreat he did, might give an idea what's going on. Just a modern day version of that where everybody is selfish and wants to get rick quick.
I had a little trouble getting into this book when I started it as well. Minus "Guts" it starts off kind of weak but by the end I was hooked. "Guts" and "Exodus" were my favorites also.
I am a new chuck palahniuk fan. my brother told me I wpuld like his books and I bought a copy of haunted and I was instantly hooked! guts was awesome. I like the whole book.
Great intro to a chuck book. Hehe. What you going to read next?
