Friday, August 7, 2009

Palahniuk

Finished his book "Rant" the other day. It has to be one of his better books. I mean, the guy is a god, but this was a gem.

It had a very non-linear feel to it and the book makes commentary and interpretation on itself, which I have not seen outside of Vonnegut's "Breakfast of Champions." It ended up being rather mind blowing. And he broke out of his element with a more futuristic and sci-fi-esque dystopia. That on top of creating a narrative using a ton of different narrators was impressive.

Thus, I must amend the ranking of his books, which originally read like this.

  1. Choke
  2. Lullaby
  3. Fight Club
  4. Snuff
Now, goes as follows (oops, first run through I missed out on Survivor)
  1. Choke
  2. Rant
  3. Lullaby
  4. Fight Club
  5. Snuff
  6. Survivor (I liked it, until the end. Then it dies, but not in a good way).
And it should be noted here that the top 4 are super close, like ridiculously close.

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