i stopped torturing myself at the half way point and burned the book over my stovetop and ate the ashes in hopes of regaining the 3 hours i put in. didn't work. this was one of the worst things i've read since i tutored freshmen in their first writing course.

to anyone who happens upon it and can't resist, here are the only nuggets worth digesting: {you are here} and {the lady}. and i'd say the latter was more so, if only for the quick spill on palahniuk's personal history. also it's worth taking into account that i didn't read much past the second section of portraits where the mental yawns became unbearable.

First, I didn't plan beforehand that reading an essay collection would be so different and harder, for me, than reading fiction. It felt like reading in slow-motion, 30 pages of this book took me as much time as 60 pages of a novel. But I pushed on, because it was interesting, however long it took me to read it. Learning experience still, I prefer consuming non-fiction as audiobooks than physical, I think.

But the book was interesting. It felt like getting samples of the lives of many people I will never meet, different and fascinating in their own right, but that I would never seek to learn more about by myself. And Palahniuk, write about them, select which detail, which element make them interesting and it works. The sampling is great and shows this variety of people, all different yet all trying to find what will give their existence meaning, after all. It makes you think about you own life, about what you're doing to give it value and meaning yourself.

3* è una pura media: ci sono racconti (pochi) da 4, e parecchi da 2... Nel complesso un po' deludente, non si sente lo spirito del mio Palafuffo preferito :|
Ho invece apprezzato, da brava groupie, le parti autobiografiche.

4 star only because I'm envious of all these people he gets to meet at random, that are just so damn unique in their damned destiny.

Chuck Palahniuk (”Writer of the book “Fight Club”) “Stranger Than Fiction”. The book is true stories of strange people but if you stick around long enough he starts tossing in bits and pieces of his own life and it gets dark and scary!

Heartbreaking, thoughtful, funny and true, an excellent and entertaining read throughout.

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.

Este libro es un gran storytime
Como para mí el club de la lucha fue solo un libro que disfrute en una tarde pero a chuck le marco la vida.
Me parece interesante como está en busca de anécdotas pendiente,no del presente si no de cómo lo va a contar, como te lo va a vender.
Realmente me llegó algunas de sus reflexiones y me divertí con sus desgracias
Lo siento más cercano como a un amigo
Aprendí de cortes, de castillos de tractores y de lucha datos que no están de más para empezar una conversación!
Descubrí que tengo puros amigos de aire y que Elon Musk es el nuevo hombre cohete, que quiero construir un castillo de princesa pero sin humedad, que nunca seré tan guapa como bratt, que está bien pedirle a alguien que bote mis mis juguetes cuando muera,escuché de muchos libros interesantes autores que quiero leer, la importancia de la fábula, que no confíe en joven rusas de internet que quiera que les pague un pasaje de avión, que aunque no hagas daño a nadie resucitas el odio de la gente, que cuando compartes una historia deja de ser tuya y que nunca te afeites con crema depilatoria!

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.

I liked this book.

This is a collection of true stories of very bizarre things that have occurred or occur regularly. They are all as the old adage goes: So strange they could only be true.

In the intro to this book Chuck Palahniuk even admits that he is something of a one trick pony. He views everything in America as the following struggle: We strive to be alone. We fight our way to independence from our fellow human beings by pursuing whatever interest we have, and then we get there and find ourselves lonely, and must reacquaint with our fellow humans. I agree with him, this is the lense that he views everything through, and it is getting annoying in his fiction literature. But these stories, these are true stories. And I think that his writing style is very aptly applied to these stories and telling them. Long story short: Chuck Palahniuk's writing style is best applied to nonfiction.

I read this book because I was staying for a week on the Oregon coast with my family. It seemed appropriate because Chuck Palahniuk is from portland. Also, this book seemed interesting.

A nice collection of essays and short stories. Some of them lack the punch of his fiction, but are great tales nonetheless. I especially liked when he got personal and shared some of his life. Well worth the read, but if you are expecting Choke or Suvivor you may want to adjust yout thinking before picking it up.

-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.

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