Check this new design out for Chuck Palahniuk’s “Invisible Monsters” poster and t-shirts.
It’s so cool I could shoot my face off.
Check this new design out for Chuck Palahniuk’s “Invisible Monsters” poster and t-shirts.
It’s so cool I could shoot my face off.
Go ahead. Ask me who my favorite author is. I dare you.
If you guessed that I’d say Tim LaHaye, you’re funny.
Chuck Palahniuk, the author of “Fight Club” and nine other fiction novels, is my favorite author. His books follow a common theme. They tend to be about a lonely person in the world who is trying to find acceptance in others.
This motif takes the form of the most bizarre stories I’ve ever read.
There are three primary things that draw me into Palahniuk’s books. They are:
1. Esoteric, erudite information that requires me to research whether they are facts or not, because the information is so bizarre. The facts are usually spouted from a character who is loaded with this information. In “Fight Club” (book or movie), you may remember the books in the old house that are written from the perspective of Jack’s body parts. It’s kind of in that vein. In “Invisible Monsters” there’s a character named Oyster who says some of the most interesting facts I’ve ever read, like tumble weeds didn’t exist in America until the late 1800s when Russian’s brought sheep to America and they carried the seeds in their wool. Read the rest of this entry »