Chuck palahniuk - Guts part 3/3

[15zoom]

I want to be Chuck Palaniuk so badly when I grow up...

[guitar19904]

i actually feel fucked up after hearing this

[goosetuff79]

@Kevtb87 agreed man my friend told me to read. this i spent the next few hours in shock because he told me this happened to the author. i was seriously freaked out, and i told the story to my friend somberly and we both agreed that it was completely fucked up. but it just shows you that its all about perspective. with the setting these people were in, they found it funny. when i read it alone, it was a gross, horrifying, depressing collection of stories of how one mistake ruined someones life

[SeethingGreen]

@goosetuff79 Yes, but it was a fantastic book, Haunted.

[Kevtb87]

hearing it read out is so different from reading it yourself. I think I understand why some people faint now. imagine if you were at one of these readings with your partner, or God forbid, your mother or your son. how nauseating would that be? knowing that they are listening to this stuff. the images going through their heads.

this kind of stuff is not meant to be spoken in public. it's just wrong. lol

[diiscolemonade]

ahahahahahahahahha



[Ravenbabe808]

Holy fuck. I have never been this happy.

[cephalopod113]

I love this man.

[conversationthoughts]

He should do a world tour, I would love to see him here in Sweden reading Guts - and all his other work.

[ryanhancock1234]

I wanna suck his long rotting intestine..and vomit in my mother mouth.

[GregThaVeg]

wtf this is not a laughing story the crowd is totally taking away from the effect.

[aleji0]

@GregThaVeg Chuck must really hate how they laugh at his constant one liners. Laughter really detracts from funny stories huh?

[GregThaVeg]

@aleji0

so you're saying that laughter doesn;t take the effect away from a story that is supposed to make you uneasy?

have you read the book? the point was to give fear to common items.

[aleji0]

@GregThaVeg You are right, I haven't read this book. Although I do know that those are jokes that Chuck was using, and clearly those are to keep the reader/audience with him in the face of such dark circumstances involving these "common items". The dispute isn't the carrot, nor the candle wax, nor pools, and how fear may be derived from these everyday things, but it is that the jokes are there to keep the audience from feeling alienated, and to supply them a catharsis from which to move on from.

[aleji0]

You bring up a good point though.

[GregThaVeg]

@aleji0 i see how some would see it as jokes but i see it as forshadowing and the part about the lawyer; they didn't even have enough info to understand.

i bascially just mad that they took the chances for a fainting and thats what i want. if it's not hell they aint happy and i'm not happy.

[Kevtb87]

@aleji0 I can understand Gred's issue with people laughing. when I first read it alone I never got a laugh out loud vibe from it. it was a sick, twisted horror story, with some dark humour. I smirked here and there. but grimaced alot more.

so I'm surprised hearing how much people laughed out loud at it. I guess it's a release. hearing it read out to a room of people is a very different experience than reading it quietly on your own.

[thephilistine1992]

Probably the best novelist now!

[johnrcoben]

People fainted over this? Wow.

[Slide2671]

I hear this has caused 73 fainters.

[steffiRIOT]

This wasn't as bad as some people try to make it seem...

[artemisfair]

ROFL that dog was fuckin' nuts. XD

[casusbelli15]

I would imagine the horror the guy in the pool experiences,upon the realisation of what has occurred, is on the same intensity as the dude from "GlassAss".

[RupturedJ]

Brilliant...

[chgpatriot7]

that guy's life sucks so much

[13Elphaba13]

I don't like how he insults Charles Dickens!

[chedit01]

@13Elphaba13 how does he?

[naxalitejsl]

This wasn't that bad. More funny than scary.

[georginiou]

I thought that was really funny. How people pass out surprises me. Maybe it's because I'm British!

[imnevermakingavideo]

maybe some of them took that "hold your breath" thing seriously!

[A7XzSidewinder]

I've read this a few times but still, every time, I still get a bit queasy.

[clashcitywannabe]

the craziest story in haunted is exodus

I nearly threw up reading that one

[chailizard]

Shit it gets worse than this!!?!??

[JesusKrispies]

This is probably the least upsetting story in Haunted.

[MFoxcat]

@JesusKrispies

yeah exodus really got me sick

[jonathanpro3d]

i´m the jack´s guts

[jewelcaseface]

I think you mean, "I am Jack's guts."

[jonathanpro3d]

u got damn right dude!

[jonathanpro3d]

lol, i will try to find this book... but in my country is very dificult find it... well thanks for your recomendations...

[oS4Ko]

i dont think im ever gunna jack off, go swimming, or talk to my brother ever again

[migget159]

I love this. 23 people passed out during this! i don't think i could ever pass out from seeing or hearing something gross. i was eating lunch while i read this story the first time. its not that bad.

[RobbyMate]

i think it's about 86 now :D