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... and I still don't know how many books exactly I can read in a year. Can't wait the end of July to see the result.:)
#59 Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
272 pages
 > 4.
I perfectly agree with that! Thanks, Morphidae, for the good idea, for setting up this challenge and all the fun!
> 1, 2,
I also have a copy of Middlesex, The Blind Assassin, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Rabbit, Run (actually the whole Rabbit series), and I'm pining to get a copy of Cl ... Deleted this post because it was meant for the May thread:) ... which sure seemed to resonate in the same vein as the books. I will have to get to that one soon.
I have not read Lullaby yet either.
I didn't think Pygmy had been released yet. It is his newest one. If you can get a copy of that one, go for it, and tell me how it is! =:op
If ... ... that I can access?! The only ones they have is Haunted, Fight Club, Pygmy, Snuff, Rant, Stranger Than Fiction, Lullaby and Survivor. >138: I've only read two things by Palahniuk: Lullaby, which I found slightly hysterical in tone and definitely underwhelming, and a short story, Guts, which was just revolting and like one of those bad urban myths that used to get passed around in the early adolescent years of school (apparently ... ... Eidinow
10: The Flower Hunter: Ellis Rowan by Christine & Michael Morton-Evans
11: Gang of One by Fan Shen
12: Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
13: Survivor: a Novel by Chuck Palahniuk
14: Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs and Classical Music by Blair Tindall ... reputation (now very much in decline, thank God).
Palahniuk's first two or three books are lovely, especially LULLABY but his last three are in the toilet with Ellis.
Louis Ferdinand Celine was a certified genius. As in genius and, yup, completely nuts. But JOURNEY TO THE END O ... You know, Cliff, I have to admit enjoying both Fight Club and Lullaby. I even thought Diary had a certain so-bad-it's-good quality. (The literary equivalent of the Nicholas Cage Wicker Man.) On the other hand, I tend to find his pretentiousness annoying and consider him the P.T. Barnum of ... ... last three or four have not been strong efforts but I'll still put in a word or three in defense of both FIGHT CLUB and LULLABY, which I think are superb efforts. And his collection of essays, STRANGER THAN FICTION, is very good too.
Certainly Palahniuk isn't for all tastes but his ... ... characters, which is why I thought it might be too easy. But to pick out one of Palahniuk's more entertaining books, Lullaby, there's Helen Boover Boyle, who is kind of unpleasant and turns out to be actually kind of interesting, and then there is Oyster, who I would be tempted to kill on ... ... a decent collection of short stories so nudge that.
Survivor is a better than average book, but I would rather nudge Lullaby as a Palahniuk novel.
-- M1001 LULLABY by Chuck Palahniuk #12, 13 - I think Lullaby is probably my favorite Palahniuk book. I even liked Diary, which was entertaining in its over-the-top, Wicker Man-style silliness. He's not really much of a horror writer, so there was a high degree of diminishing marginal returns with his horror stuff. (Lullaby, Di ... #12 - I agree Lullaby was an excellent book, stuck in my mind for weeks after reading it. Try Palahniuk's LULLABY, I thought it first rate. A friend even managed to secure me a signed copy.
HAUNTED perfectly exemplifies what I said about his last several novels going over the top to gross people out. His collection of essays is first-rate; the man really can write... I liked Palahniuk's early novels--especially FIGHT CLUB and LULLABY--but his last two or three have been so over the top sickening that I have to wonder if he's working to shock and outrage, rather than tell a good story.
I don't tend to finish books I absolutely hate--the last one I ... I sold to HPB:
Why We Hate Us by Dick Meyer
Eclipse and Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich
I sold to HPB:
Why We Hate Us by Dick Meyer
Eclipse and Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich
... (Read 6 times)
2. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer (Read 5 times)
3. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (Read 4 times)
4. Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
5. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
7. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
8 ...
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