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.
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"Full of wonderful moments...Palahniuk's voice is so distinctive and intimate--he writes as though he is recounting a great story to a close friend." --Los Angeles Times
"Step into Palahniuk's dark worldview and watch for what crawls out. These stories are true to him and no one else." --The Oregonian
“One of the oddest and most oddly compelling collections to come along for some time.” —The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“In Chuck Palahniuk’s world, the ride is fast, often disturbing, and there is never any holding back.” —The New Orleans Times-Picayune
“Eccentric, idiosyncratic, and often entertaining.” —The Onion
"Priceless grace notes from an exceptionally droll and sharp-eyed observer." --The New York Times
“Rarely does a collection of essays continually resonate with a main theme and accumulate a weight that would lead you to call it a great book. . . . This is a pretty great book.” —The Seattle Times
"The book's lurid appeal rests largely on being let in on Palahniuk's secrets, the raw material for much of his fiction. . . . Acts that give spice to his novels are made more menacing when encountered in the real world." --Black Book
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"Step into Palahniuk's dark worldview and watch for what crawls out. These stories are true to him and no one else." --The Oregonian
“One of the oddest and most oddly compelling collections to come along for some time.” —The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“In Chuck Palahniuk’s world, the ride is fast, often disturbing, and there is never any holding back.” —The New Orleans Times-Picayune
“Eccentric, idiosyncratic, and often entertaining.” —The Onion
"Priceless grace notes from an exceptionally droll and sharp-eyed observer." --The New York Times
“Rarely does a collection of essays continually resonate with a main theme and accumulate a weight that would lead you to call it a great book. . . . This is a pretty great book.” —The Seattle Times
"The book's lurid appeal rests largely on being let in on Palahniuk's secrets, the raw material for much of his fiction. . . . Acts that give spice to his novels are made more menacing when encountered in the real world." --Black Book
From the Trade Paperback edition.
About the Author
Chuck Palahniuk s novels are the bestselling Lullaby and Fight Club (which was made into a film by director David Fincher), Survivor, Invisible Monsters, and Choke. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.
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By S.P. Nash (Kansas City, Missouri USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories: Unabridged Selections (Audio CD)
yeah... i guess i need to be better at reading the details. this audio CD is NOT the entire book. chuck is my current favorite contemporary writer... bar none.i have all of his books... and have read several of them several times. this was the first time i have made an audio CD purchase of a Palaniuk book. i was soon to be staring at a ten hour drive through boring territory and figured this would be the coolest audio book i had ever experienced. as a wrestling coach, i was particularly wanting to hear the story about amateur wrestling/wrestlers. and that is my main beef with the audio book. it is SELECTIONS from the book. the story i was anticipating was not in the audio CD at all... period. when it came to the end i was pretty disappointed. i never did go back to check which of the others didn't appear in the audio book. i also knew this was NOT a work of fiction in the chuckstyle i am so accustomed to. that is cook. i liked it. the stories are good and the format is fresh and interesting. bottom line... don't buy the audio CD if you want every last story. therefore, as an audio CD... i had to give this a *3*. if this were a review of the complete book, i am sure it would be a *4* at least. (i would rate his others a *5* in case that helps you) i also ordered Haunted at the same time (old school paper style, btw) and can't wait to get into it.
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This is, in fact, one of the strangest books I have ever read -- also one of the funniest and most endearing. I thought about it for weeks and then sent it to several friends.
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