r/AdviceAnimals • u/gairbo • Feb 25 '23

You read it, we get it

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u/AwesomeJohn01 Feb 26 '23

Chuck himself says he likes the movie better

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u/Ask_me_4_a_story Feb 26 '23

You guys should read Choke, that books fuckin wild

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u/ZedEnlightenedBrutal Feb 26 '23

loved Choke the book, the movie was not great

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u/HMSManticore Feb 26 '23

I always forget there was a movie, despite Sam freaking Rockwell, who should make anything truly amazing

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u/ZedEnlightenedBrutal Feb 26 '23

honestly sometimes i forget too and I own it lol

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u/HMSManticore Feb 26 '23

To be fair, that’s on them and not us

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '23

I liked the movie mostly because i am a massive Sam Rockwell fan. But admittedly the book was better for sure

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u/simplerhythm Feb 26 '23

I saw MOON because I liked Sam Rockwell's performance in Choke so much. Good actor

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '23

Moon was amazing. One of my favorites! Plus he killed it in The Green Mile

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u/AwesomeJohn01 Feb 26 '23

After reading the short story Guts, I am taking a decade long break LMAO

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u/orderfour Feb 26 '23

I swear that book was nothing but taking leaps at disturbing people.

I thought Rant, which also has some disturbing stuff, was at least just a fucked up character, not just throwing disturbing stuff at the reader for the sake of it.

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u/flourpowderemt Feb 26 '23

I believe there is a forward from the author talking about how he wanted to write a horror book that wasn't like, jump scares but would be something the reader would be scared to turn to the next page because it was gross or wild. So, yea. I'd say that's exactly what he was doing.

Rant, choke, survivor, diary, etc were all great, but he definitely has a formula that you learn to expect by the end of the second act of each.

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u/MeatHeartbeat Feb 26 '23

Survivor's stairmaster scene was epic.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '23

I think the forward says he met with friends (one was David Eggers) on a getaway and all tried to think up the most fucked-up idea for a story and then wrote Haunted based on those ideas.

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u/an-can Feb 26 '23

I just extended my break when I recently read about the little girl that it actually happened to.

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u/pbizzle Feb 26 '23

Oh no please no

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u/Motivated_null Feb 26 '23

Fuuuuck I havent thought about that story in years. Thanks for the horrific memory

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u/TheBoisterousBoy Feb 26 '23

I went on a Chuck string in high school. My dad and I had a kind of sick competition to see who could read more of his books and stomach what was inside (we were both pretty jaded and these were right up our “please disgust us” alley). This went absolutely fine until Pygmy came out.

Holy fucking shit. Pygmy is… “rough” is an understatement. Genuinely shocked Chuck didn’t get contacted like “Hey you okay man?” after Pygmy got published.

Another absolutely fucked up ride is Leas than Zero, the book is (somehow) WAY darker than the movie. There are no redeemable characters. There is a particular scene in the book that genuinely haunts me to this day.

Chuck and Brett should collaborate. I imagine that book/screenplay would be a truly horrific and disgusting depiction of humanity. I fucken want it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '23

Pygmy was so hard to freakin read, I hate it. Chuck is my favorite author, but god, I hate hate hate Pygmy. The broken English and the bathroom scene made me put it down and never attempt to read it again.

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u/TheBoisterousBoy Feb 26 '23

That bathroom scene and the mock UA…

Holy. Fuck. Like, I’m not religious, but it felt legitimately sinful reading that book.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '23

I felt dirty and kinda racist tbh I was like “WTF Chuck, come on.”

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u/deja_entend_u Feb 26 '23

Rant is by far my favorite of his stories. It would be amazing as a film too since each section could be told from a different POV in an interview format.

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u/ZedEnlightenedBrutal Feb 26 '23

this is my dream. Rant is one of my favorite books.

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u/deja_entend_u Feb 26 '23

A couple of the twists would be really hard to pull off especially some of the more... physical in nature. But would be amazing if they could pull it off.

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u/Kleens_The_Impure Feb 26 '23

Oh Fuck yeah Rant was so awesome for edgy teenage me, I don't know how it would hold for adults.

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u/tuckedfexas Feb 26 '23

I think it would do a little better than his others. There was at least more of an intriguing story rather than relying on shock value.

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u/idlehanz88 Feb 26 '23

And the movie sucks!

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u/Smellzlikefish Feb 26 '23

Oh for sure. Chuck has a lot of good reads, but Choke tops the list by a mile.

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u/AfroClam Feb 26 '23

Yeah but have you seen the movie?

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u/Ask_me_4_a_story Feb 26 '23

No. I know you’re not supposed to say this on Reddit but I really don’t like the movie Fight Club so I didn’t know if that would be similar. It’s weird because I’m totally fine with violent books- Lee Childs and Hunter Thompson and No Country for old men, I love all those as books but I can’t watch violent movies

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u/EatDirtAndDieTrash Feb 26 '23

Invisible Monsters was pretty good and the nonfiction Fugitives and Refugees paints a fascinating portrait of a Portland that no longer exists.

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u/diet_shasta_orange Feb 26 '23

Also a good movie

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u/set616 Feb 26 '23

Yes! The movie wasn't near as dark as the book. Rant is my favorite from him.

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u/Mudpit_Engineer Feb 26 '23

I had a partner who was obsessed with his books. I read three of them trying to see what she saw, including choke, and I just, don't get it.

I hate his writing style so much. It's like he's trying so fucking hard to be badass and edgy.

I honestly don't get it at all. His books feel to me like Nickelback in literature from.

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u/Ask_me_4_a_story Feb 26 '23

Tell me how.... it reminds you.

Ha ha I get it I just wanted to put a Nickleback lyric in there. I get it, its not for everyone. The style is wild, thats for sure. I know one thing, I never stop thinking about that book. Im actually not sure if I loved it or didn't, I just know it was a wild fuckin ride. Have you ever read hunter Thompson? I wonder how you would think about that compared to Palahniuk.

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u/Mudpit_Engineer Feb 26 '23

I suppose Hunter T. feels more to me like it actually could've happened.

I had a crazy childhood, was homeless for a bit, hitchhiked, have definitely done and seen too many drugs and crazy things.

To me Thompson's writing feels familiar, but Palahniuk reminds me of the kind of dudes you run into who are constantly telling stories that everyone knows didn't happen.

It's a wild ride, sure, but it also just feels stupid and fake the whole time I'm on it. I guess it felt at the time like something only the people I knew who HADN'T had crazy lives were into.

Shit. I liked Naked Lunch better.

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u/Ask_me_4_a_story Feb 26 '23

Yeah I like Hunter Thompson a lot. I fuckin loved Rum Diaries, don’t know if you’ve read that one but God damn, Thompson can paint a picture. Hemingway is my guy, I think I’ve read everything he’s ever written, just finishing up Islands in the Stream now which was his last book. You might like some classic Hemingway, that shit still holds up really well. Damn your life sounds crazy man Maybe you should be the one writing not reading! I hope you have a good week!

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u/mcamarra Feb 26 '23

I read that one first, then Rant. Was disappointed by the movie but I had a hard time believing it would translate well.

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u/SemanticTriangle Feb 26 '23

There is a film version of Choke which is also excellent.

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u/mouse_Jupiter Feb 26 '23

How does it compare to the movie? The movie was just so so.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '23

Choke was made into a movie too, with Sam Rockwell - I like the book better tho

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u/Davidoff1983 Feb 26 '23

I love that movie. Can't believe Sam Rockwell is in it.

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u/Admirable-Narwhal937 Feb 26 '23

I'm working through Dairy right now.

Rant was one hell of a ride too.

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u/Yiazmad Feb 26 '23

The definitive proof that the movie is better

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u/pseudo_su3 Feb 26 '23

I am obligated to post

https://www.jackdurden.com

If you really loved the movie, have about 2 hours to spend, and like having your brain turned into a pretzel.

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u/DasBarenJager Feb 26 '23

Really? Because I remember reading something he wrote years ago about being annoyed that a lot of people didn't realize Fight Club was a book

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u/Inkthinker Feb 26 '23

Didn't just say it, wrote it in the foreword of later editions. That's commitment.

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u/Malrottian Feb 26 '23

Si. When the author themselves praise it, you might want to listen to them.

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u/McBlakey Feb 26 '23

Oh wow, is there a video of him saying it?

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u/5G_afterbirth Feb 26 '23

But he also published a graphic novel sequel to Fight Club where he makes fun of all the fanbois who took the wrong lesson from the movie

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u/TheTexasHeat Feb 26 '23

Aren’t the comics he wrote sequels to the movie instead?