Наверное лучшее, что было в этом сборнике - это вступление. Остальное - ерунда какая-то, в самом деле. Воспоминания одни, а это, имхо, может быть интересно только заядлому фэну Паланика, коим я, увы, не являюсь. Стоит ли это читать? Да, пожалуй нет. Потеряю я что-либо, не прочитав сей сборник? Увы, тоже нет.
Нет, мне конечно понравились пару произведений отсюда - "Жестянка с людьми", "Почти по-калифорнийски", что-то еще, но они выделяются лишь на фоне остальных рассказов, и всё.
ЗЫ: сборник очень уж напомнил другой сборник в этой серии, Со стыда провалиться , по-сути такой же бесполезный. Я не знаю, может у них, за рубежом, такие сборники актуальны и популярны, но у нас, увы, онни довольно провальны.

Though this is Non-fiction, it still delivers the best of  Chuck Palahniuk

We all know Chuck Palahniuk right?

Even if you haven't read him, you probably know what he represents.



That's not him, that's Henry Rollins, but you get the point.

Palahniuk is the white male that has found a way out of a life of corporate unfulfillment. He is the fellow captured soldier who escaped past the POW fence one night.

Even though you are still in the cage, you cheer him on with your fellow captured soldiers. You wish him well, and tell him not to come back.

Why?

He offers you the hope for escape yourself - just by letting you know it is possible.

He left behind an extensive escape plan for you to read, and to one day make your own plan.

And of course, there is the chance that he is coming back with an army, so that everyone is freed.

Though this book is Non-fiction, it distills the best of Palahniuk and gives it to you straight

Palahniuk gets into rarely-visited situations as a journalist - he visits wrestlers in their element, or explores the world of combine-demolition derbies.

He is not  Gabriela Wiener - she finds insane situations and then enters them.

Palahniuk will just witness a combine-demolition derby. He will not drive one of them in a competition.

But still - every page holds insight.

If anything, this reminds me of  Jonathan Franzen's  The End of the End of the Earth - just a collection of a contemporary fiction author's best non-fiction. Each one is short, and each one can change you.

An eclectic and exciting collection of nonfiction from little Chucky boy. Slightly closer to a mixed bag than a home run - but some of these pieces are too fascinating/personal to pass up, and make up for the odd half-baked portrait.

Terminé «Error Humano», de Chuck Palahniuk. Es lo primero que leo de él, y ya logró que lo quiera y lo envidie.

El libro se divide en tres: «Gente reunida», «Retratos» y «Personal». Su nombre los describe lo suficiente.

Todos son relatos cortitos que cuentan historias tan interesantes como extrañas.

Desde un festival de sexo donde todos garchan porque sí hasta su paso por Los Angeles durante la época de «El club de la pelea».

Tiene una franqueza y simpleza que nos hace sentir identificados. Se acerca mucho al lector. Todo con una crudeza espectacular.

Desconozco el resto de sus libros, pero «Error Humano» se destaca por la diferente forma de mirar la realidad que lo rodea, de interpretar.
 
Lo mejor es que los protagonistas son personas raras. Como Palahniuk, como todos.

[Reseña escrita originalmente para Twitter]

okurken sıkıldım açıkcası. otobiyografik özellikler taşıyan, hikayeler diyemeyeceğim düşünce sekanslarından oluşuyor kitap. palahniuk'in hayatına karşı özel bir merağınız varsa ancak tavsiye edebilirim.

Kitap, Palahniuk'un bir dizi yazısının bir araya getirilmiş hali. Bu nedenle yazılar arasında bağlantı zayıf doğal olarak.

-Palahniadas varias pero interesantes por diferentes razones.-

Género. Ensayo (en realidad no, o no solamente, pero hay que clasificarlo en el blog en alguna categoría).

Lo que nos cuenta. El libro Error humano (publicación original: Stranger Than Fiction, 2004) recopila una serie de crónicas, extrañas semblanzas, artículos y ensayos muy personales escritos por el autor antes de y durante sus comienzos como escritor (escritor famoso, quiero decir), que nos permitirán conocer, entre otros, épocas de abuso de esteroides con fines cosméticos y sensuales, a la actriz Juliette Lewis, castillos en construcción en los USA, un campeonato de lucha entre máquinas cosechadoras, el submarino USS-Louisiana, a Marilyn Manson, eventos en los que se dan siete minutos a escritores para que vendan su obra, la muerte de su propio padre y cómo le afectó (iremos ahí más de una vez), la obra de Ira Levin, la lucha libre amateur estadounidense o el Festival del Testículo de Rock Creek Lodge, por citar unos ejemplos.

¿Quiere saber más de este libro, sin spoilers? Visite:

http://librosdeolethros.blogspot.com/...

Con todo el punch que promete, y habiendo disfrutado ya de algunas novelas de Palahniuk, debo decir que la lectura sucesiva y continuada de estas crónicas, que en su forma original obviamente no estaban recopiladas, me dio pronto una sensación de hastío, de haberme topado con una fórmula para asombrar. Rompedoras como sean algunas de las historias, el tono de Palahniuk para presentarlas, esto-es-lo-que-hay-no-sé-por-qué-ofenderse-o-asombrarse, las iguala en cierta forma en la que, pues ya que todas son extremas, ninguna lo es. No sé, tal vez si lo leía antes de ver tantos episodios de "Tabú" en NatGeo me gustaba más...
Pero tampoco es que lo odié. Una cosa que puedo recordar ahorita es que el español me saltaba a los ojos, o sea que la traducción me descolocaba un poco por antinatural o forzada para llegarle al estilo del escritor, que de esto no puede ser culpado. Puede, sí, un poco de bañarse con excesivo placer en las repercusiones en su momento de El club de la lucha en los segmentos más autobiográficos del libro. Pero quién no lo haría, pues.
Deje este libro por ahí en su casa y lea una crónica de vez en cuando, como menú de variedades entre libros. Así lo disfrutará más.

Well. This is the most trouble I've ever had with a Chuck Palahniuk book. Palahniuk is my favorite author so I've read *most* of his books (I think I just have three to go?) and this one has been sitting on my shelf for years. For this nonfiction November, I decided it was finally time to give it a go. Well. I did not have a good time.

The first section of the book was all stories about stuff that I just... didn't care about? Wrestling and monster trucks and how to build castles???? (I was ranting to my boyfriend and he said it's because those are all incredibly male subjects honestly that could've been the problem.) They also just... weren't written in an appealing fashion either? I just found the first section so boring?

After that, it did pick up though and about halfway through, I did start to really enjoy this book. A lot of the later stories in this collection (particularly the ones specifically about the author's life and about Fight Club), I found really interesting and really enjoyed reading. But, unfortunately, with these types of books, you do have to review the book ~as a whole and there were only a few standouts in the whole collection.

So I've now read all of Palahniuk's nonfiction and, unfortunately, I only liked one of the three. What I did like about this was seeing how many true stories influenced his fiction. It was really fun to see what thread created something I loved from one of his fictional books. So that was my biggest takeaway. But, unfortunately, most of this just was not for me? But I'm glad to say that I've read it and now I'll go back to catching up on his fiction.

⭐️⭐️⭐️
Personal Score: C+
Critical Score: B-

Well written, because duh, it’s Chuck. But so many pieces here are just not remarkable or worth making it out of the magazines/wherever they were originally published and into a hardcover book. Feels a bit like a cash grab, or Chuck’s reluctance to let his clips go forgotten in recycling bins. The back cover copy and blurbs paint this collection as wild and shocking, but it’s so not, compared to Chuck’s other books.

I thought these would detail the entertaining results of Chuck jumping into strangers’ lives and getting into mischief with them as he interviews them. Instead, many of the pieces are stagnant, frozen in their obsessive description, like we accidentally got Chuck’s notes and not the final piece with the heart, the *story* folded in.

It’s a huge range in quality on display. The last section was by far my favorite but by far the shortest. Meanwhile my least favorite pieces were the longest. Chuck’s best when he’s doing fiction or personal essays. His more journalistic ventures are too detailed and spiritless.

Here’s what I thought of each piece, not ranked by my scores but listed in the same order as the collection.

“Fact and Fiction: An Introduction” A-. Chuck always nails an intro.

~People Together~

“Testy Festy” A-. Amazing, but I wanted it to be way longer.

“Where Meat Comes From” C. Skimmed it, but it wasn’t bad, just not of interest to me.

“You Are Here” A-. A little dense but very smart.

“Demolition” C. Boring, but I’m sure some readers love this one.

“My Life as a Dog” B+. Decent. He’s such a pest irl.

“Confessions in Stone” F. Ugh, so long and boring.

“Frontiers” B+. His personal life is so chaotic, lol.

“The People Can” D+. Another snore fest, but thoroughly researched and def of interest to many people…just not me.

“The Lady” B+. Kind of a fun one.

~Portraits~

“In Her Words” C+. I don’t care about Juliette Lewis enough to love this, but still kinda interesting. Also, she’s so unlikeable.

“Why Isn’t He Budging?” B. Another unlikeable interviewee, but one far more interesting.

“Not Chasing Amy” B-. Huge stylistic and tonal departure for Chuck…I was convinced this was narrated by another interviewee, but nope, that’s really Chuck absolutely gushing over Amy Hempel.

“Reading Yourself” A-. Marilyn Manson is actually a kinda cool dude. And the tarot card reading was very well done.

“Bodhisattvas” D-. White savior journalism, objectifying and cringe.

“Human Error” D-. This guy is so repulsive, and I don’t want to read about his life.

“Dear Mr. Levin,” C. Sorta ironic that Chuck’s praising a guy for his feminist writing while bashing a woman on her’s and generally not bringing woman into the conversation. The whole piece just feels tone deaf and kiss ass-y.

~Personal~

“Escort” B. Read this years ago in an anthology. More offensive toward its subject than I remembered.

“Almost California” A-. Stellar behind the scenes ish anecdotes.

“The Lip Enhancer” A-. More stellar personal narrative.

“Monkey Think, Monkey Do” A-. These are starting to all blend together, but I’m still loving it. A trouble-making piece, though. Literally.

“Brinkmanship” A-. A bit sad. Awesome.

“Now I Remember…” A-. Continuing the winning streak.

“Consolation Prizes” A-. A little all over the place but I don’t mind.

Un libro assolutamente nontriviale, che aggiunge spessore ai racconti di Palahniuk. Da leggere, però, come appendice. Mi ha fatto riflettere molto 'Egregio signor Levin,', altri racconti sono invece da catalogare come curiosità, ma comunque nel complesso un libro piacevole e scrorrevole.

Rating - 7.4

A collection of interesting people that have chosen oddball professions to define their life; The more memorable 'essays' was the lady in disaster relief and Chuck's thoughts on his own father's murder

Although the book is repetitious in nature, you develop an appreciation for the research that Palahniuk puts in his work and grow to respect the circle he lives In - looking forward to Amy Hempel