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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  DRFP | Jan 3, 2009 |  some stories were interesting, others I skipped. It's about 50/50 (  ) toxictoast96 | Dec 30, 2008 | A collection of Chuck's non-fiction, not as good or out there as his fiction but still contained some interesting and amusing observations. Some of the stories didn't hold my interest as they weren't on a subject interesting to me, most notably one on wrestling. But, its still Chuck and any fan will appreciate a different type of work from him and a sort of clue as to why he writes what and how he does. (  ) xmaystarx | Nov 19, 2008 | I love Chuck Palahniuk's work, but this foray into the truly real didn't quite work for me. He's always been great at displaying true life with a bit of an edge. And while I know this is a series of non-fictional essays I felt I was missing that voice. The first part 'People Together' was actually rather enjoyable. It was very in your face of some of the just general weirdness that is people in groups and what they can do. 'Portraits' was kind of just...filler. I've never been one to be overly excited about the lives of celebrities. I am more than aware that under their make up that they are humans living real lives. It just seemed unnecessary. The last part, 'Personal' I really wish I could have liked. I know he was putting some of himself out there...but it just seemed rushed and hurried, which according to what he said about pushing the deadline with it, I believe might be true. Overall....it was a nice read. There were some things I enjoyed. But it wasn't quite what I was wanting or expecting. (  ) Alera | Sep 24, 2008 | Fans of Palahniuk will find this collection significantly more subdued than his fiction, but equally as gripping. A comment in the critical quotes, which mentions that this is one of the few nonfiction collections to be united by a single, coherent theme, is spot-on, and makes the collection as compulsively readable as his novels. Palahniuk proves here that he is an enormously gifted storyteller, with a friendly, nonjudgmental voice that begs to be read. Recommended, even for those too wary to read his fictional works. dczapka | Mar 19, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
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From the bestselling author of Fight Club and Diary, a collection of essays and journalistic pieces that prove that real life has imagination beaten cold in the strangeness and wonder departments
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. 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 drive train 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.
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The interview section is a lot better and Palahniuk illuminates some interesting characters in a surprising manner. The personal section of the book is equally good. Sure, one can't believe all of Palahniuk's self-hype, but there are some very good short pieces here and it's well worth reading overall. (