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The lady

Bodhisattvas

Escort
The lip enhancer
Monkey think,monkey do
Brinksmanship

Son una serie de relatos e historias que abordan la vida de Chuck. De cómo la vida puede cambiar con un hit como lo fue “El club de la pelea”, de convertirte en un escritor que revisa motores diésel para ser un escritor reconocido sin trabajo estable. Una primera parte que cuenta historias alrededor de la vida norteamericana, desde las peleas de máquinas que recogen el maíz, pasando por la vida de un camarero hasta quienes construyen castillos sólo por la loca idea de hacerlo. Para luego adentrarnos en una veta más íntima, de racionamientos en torno a escribir, saber contar las historias de tus amigos y hacerlas parecer ficción. Es una lectura entretenida para quienes queremos adentrarnos en la vida de un escritor que a estas alturas ya es de culto.

When I purchased this book I was hoping for several interesting stories that Chuck had experienced throughout his life. I kind of got that, although this book is more of a collection of unrelated articles stitched together. I enjoyed some of them, and I had to drag myself through others.

Chuck Palahniuk is definitely an artist of some kind; an observer and critique of the human condition. If you can tolerate his writing style, and the random nature of these articles, you’ll find a few pearls of wisdom buried in this publication.

Never been too much of a CP fan, but these nonfiction selections of essays, interviews, and human interest pieces ring with honesty and grit. At first it seemed the author was merely identifying stupid people doing stupid things, which I experience enough of on my own throughout the day, but on a deeper level you can feel the heart in the writing, and the heart CP had to muster to describe the often bizarre situations he writes about. A worthwhile read.