As someone who read Fight Club and was eager for more of his work, I’m going to join the dog pile and say that Chuck Palahniuk doesn’t have much substance in any other work of his I’ve tried. It feels like he’s constantly trying to one-up himself with “shocking” stuff, but it feels very surface-level, so it’s very easy to be mostly apathetic towards it.
Which is a shame, because I feel Fight Club was legitimately deep and I liked the edginess, and I couldn’t wait to get more from where that came from.
Somewhat ironically, Consider This is one of the best books on writing I’ve ever read, though.
As someone who read Fight Club and was eager for more of his work, I’m going to join the dog pile and say that Chuck Palahniuk doesn’t have much substance in any other work of his I’ve tried. It feels like he’s constantly trying to one-up himself with “shocking” stuff, but it feels very surface-level, so it’s very easy to be mostly apathetic towards it.
Which is a shame, because I feel Fight Club was legitimately deep and I liked the edginess, and I couldn’t wait to get more from where that came from.
Somewhat ironically, Consider This is one of the best books on writing I’ve ever read, though.