Chuck Palahniuk @ Borders

[tranquelmischief]

Why do people hate Chuck I mean he's a legitamate author who doesn't suck at writing interesting books. He's there with Michael Crichton, J K Rowling, Bret Easton Ellis, and just like those three he's miles above the Twilight writer.

[freshtodeath1919]

@jsuglia At least his books can be adapted into respectable films. May I ask what your book was about? I presume it was drawn from your own experience as a pathetic self-absorbed jackass.

[11vecesuno]

So? Was he picked on in school when he was younger? Ive saw photos of him as a child, and he did look the skinny vulnerable type of prey kid.

[ChrisRodSB]

PANIC! AT THE DISCO

[WalkingTravisty]

@ChrisRodSB What the fuck dude?

[WalkingTravisty]

@ChrisRodSB But yes, go Panic! at the Disco! If it weren't for Ryan Ross' strange infatuatuion with Chuck Palahniuk, I may have actually not decided to read Fight Club.

[chailizard]

Lol Robert Paulson is in the background on the left.

[ZosoDude]

hahahaaa

[Bodorio]

noone is a wannabe goth.

Goths are pathetic in too many ways, its impossible not to pity them

[hiriwabosi]

please elaborate

[nvlptl]

love chuck

[Phantomnads]

For Sale- A detailed unnecessary explanation of life views pompous,self-righteous morons.If you don't like Chuck then don't watch his videos.Really? Just hop off your own nuts. Perception is based on bias, therefore it is flawed. There will never be a right or wrong. Mainstream does not mean it's shallow. Do not consider yourselves intellectuals', because you like sundance, IFC and have a distaste for talented people. The modern definition is called 'hating' fellas=]

[goodmorningpie]

ummmmm..... ok. How did mormons get put into this? Perception isnt based on bias are you serious? And i hate to tell you but there is a right or wrong. And you tell them (mormons i think) to not consider themselves intellectuals.... You probally felt so smart after posting this comment.... "I am so smart and what i think is right because i am so intellectual." Shut up.

[heykel890]

omg. MORONS not MORMONS.

[goodmorningpie]

what?

[nihasanatas]

"For Sale- A detailed unnecessary explanation of life views pompous,self-righteous MORONS."

you fucking dipshit. go home and leave Palahniuk fans alone. There is no right or wrong, only stupidity and the application of it.

[What0ley]

Thank you, and you as well. Its been a nice conversation.

[ioport]

This guy is a fag with a bad childhood and serious mental problems. His teenage robot fans love him though.

[gustovo134]

i'd like to see you write three novels (not a series) that get turned to movies.

fight club choke and soon invisible monsters

[ioport]

So if a book gets turned into a movie, that makes the book good? Great logic. His books get turned into movies because there are a lot of teenage Chuck fans that will go see them. It's called making a profit. How can you people not see this guy for the sham he is?

[What0ley]

He is actually a great writer. I've been reading his books since 1996. Sure..why not make a movie out of a book that has sold millions? Sham? Or smart marketing?

[ioport]

Thing is, a lot of you guys think he stands for the anti-corporate, anti-consumer ideals of Fight Club, when Chuck himself has admitted the story was nothing more than an exercise in style. This guy is nothing but a hack and a sham. He's not who you want him to be. He's a homosexual, emotionally damaged multi-millionaire of limited talent who is milking this author thing for all its worth. Find another hero to follow.

[What0ley]

So. Good for him, making money off something that was easy. Isn't that how things work these days? And to tell you the truth, I don't think he stands for anything. I love his characters and cracked out stories. I wouldn't call it a sham though. Again business, marketing, making money. Whats wrong with that? Isn't it what most of us wake up in the morning to do? Go to work so we can have that paycheck? And as for being homosexual...who cares.

[BeatBuddy]

If you were always put down for being a "fag", chances are you would have mental problems too, even though it's those with more serious mental problems who inflict the pain.

[What0ley]

We all get put down in many different ways. And I think everyone has "mental problems" to some degree. It just matters how we perceive them, and adapt with them. I was always mocked and put down in school for being different. And instead of lashing out, I've turned my problems around and paint or write. Maybe for him its the same. But we can never really understand a persons thought fully.

[BeatBuddy]

Keen observation.

[sheepers411]

ioport is a troll, don't respond to him.

[ioport]

Your mother is a troll. It explains things.

[sheepers411]

Wow. Aren't you witty.

[sheepers411]

That's a spot on description of me.

Except that in neither of my 2 comments have I implied that I'm self-absorbed, or white, or middle class.

Good try, though.

I'm going to stick with my assumption of you being a troll.

[sheepers411]

A persons choice of literature and entertainment does not specify their race and class.

We're all monkeys and predictable for what we choose to read? At least we aren't trolling around every Chuck Palahniuk video to flame him and people who enjoy his books.

[sheepers411]

If you stereotype.

If what you're doing has no purpose, stop doing it.

You will never make us stop reading his books.

[Moonsidewalker]

Because you're so damned enlightened.

You're as bad as the people you're talking about.

[11vecesuno]

@ioport Dude, dont say 'You' that is the only thing wrong Ive read in your comments. Notice Im actually talking very good about you.

[ioport]

@11vecesuno Well I'm glad someone actually gets it

[11vecesuno]

@ioport I guess my english isnt as good as I thought, because I havent been able to listen or understand anything that answers the question about him being picked on in school as a child. English is your mother language, right? Could you tell me what was his answer for that, or if that was even included in the video, please?

[J665H]

STOP FEEDING THE DAMN TROLLS

[eZ2bhappE]

that last story explains alot about invisible monsters

[sherberg924]

the guy in the tux shirt looks out of place, lol.

[jaredmccoy]

You can pick out how much of a chauvinist he is by studying his female characters. All of them are bitches or whores or bitchy whores

[jimacheson]

which book did a friend of yours read before she told you to say that?

any chance you can learn from this mistake of yours NOT to speak from someone else's incorrect statement?

[jaredmccoy]

mind you, that's my opinion. if it were someone else's, i would have said "my friend thinks..."

[jimacheson]

Then how did you miss the mark so completely? ALL of them are no such things.

[niedec]

Well, all the guys in his books are the same way. He writes transgressive fiction, meaning EVERYONE is a bit of an ass, and by the end of it, you see the good in them, and they improve. It's the epitome of creating a dynamic character. Choke features a sex addict, the guy in survivor is from a cult and tells people to kill themselves in the first few pages, the guy in Fight Club is insane and apathetic...he isn't a chauvinist. He's just a very interesting writer.

[sploogersmoof]

snuff is actually based on a true story though, they made a documentary about it i believe.

[cosmusical]

There is truth to what you call chauvinism.

[forrestlumps]

I have read all of his books and you are completely incorrect. His characters are interesting, odd and desperate. Male and female. Don't be an idiot.

[timothychizmar]

well he is homosexual.. maybe that plays a part in his atitude towards women in general..

[BeatBuddy]

Generally speaking, gay men and straight women are socially attracted to each other and enjoy each other's company.

[sploogersmoof]

chuck has often stated he writes about people who he dislikes, or people he knew in real life. and its true, virtually every character he comes up with is a horrible person. male and female. and the rest are people he has actually met.

[franzy878]

Keep in mind, Fight Club is a satire.

That may shed some light on it.

[astraygypsy]

fight club was genius. who cares if chuck is gay, even though it doesnt reflect in his work. the characters are not similiar in any way, tyler durden is everything that the narrator isnt. god, you probably didnt even read the book. keep an open fucking mind.

[thepoetyouneverwere1]

where is this?

[wwk14]

what he's gay? You wouldn't get that impreson from Choke. Regardless he is one of my favorit authors. Never read a book of his i didn't like.

[xsquizzlxbizzlx]

thanks for uploading

[lordJordo]

repulsive? yeah...whatever, its a literary masterpiece, go to hell

[BeatBuddy]

What's wrong with you people? You're worse than Elvis Presley fans.

[What0ley]

Whats wrong with Elvis?

[BeatBuddy]

Nothing per se, but in this manipulative consumerist culture, he is diefied. I can't see anything about him that warrants this stature. I wish people would let him rest in peace.

[What0ley]

I can understand the overly eccentric fans recreating his life being a problem. But for someone...anyone who leaves something behind is to be remembered. Its like a A great grandmother dying. Do you stop thinking about them completely? No, every once in awhile you sit and go through the things they left behind. My great Gran always brings herself up with butterflies, and every time I see one I remember her in the greatness she was. The same when I listen to his albums.

[BeatBuddy]

To that I can say that there are scores of artists and entertainers who have left something behind, but they don't receive the accolades that Elvis gets. Why Elvis touches so many people so deeply escapes me. There are collectively cultural conditionings that we're tacitly "not supposed" to contradict. I anger people when I say that Elvis was not a great man, or that Ayn Rand stinks in every respect, or that Charlie Chaplin was not funny.

[What0ley]

I too agree with this. I think that most people get into it because of their grandparents and Elvis has become a kind of...Cult Classic if you will with the younger generations. And I personally love Charlie Chaplin. But I was able to learn and appreciate his work through my acting classic. Its just that I think Elvis is still closer to the generations. Some people do eventually leave us in time. As those who do remember them die off. There just isn't someone to pass them on anymore.

[BeatBuddy]

"I personally love Charlie Chaplin"

This is what I can't grasp. To me he's always been a crashing bore. Lots of people look at me askance when I tell them I hate the Mona Lisa and that I wouldn't be caught dead with it hanging on my wall. A great deal of popular taste is really the result of sublime mass suggestion. This view might have something to do with the fact that when it comes to art, music, and literature, I tend to be a modernist, more interested in the challenge of concepts.

[What0ley]

I don't love him cause he's funny. I love him because of his miming talents. It can be extremely hard to portray a story without sound. And he was a genius when it came to the comedy of miming. I learned about him in school. He was a great idol to characterization among the acting world. I think I understand, that maybe you just do not like anything that is mainstream and too popular. But that really doesn't mean that it has lost its wonder. You just have to look closer.

[BeatBuddy]

A lot of mainstream stuff is formulaic, but some of it is not excluded from my appreciations. Check my profile. Check the movies, there is a common thread among them, each in different ways constitute a rebellion against or challenge to entrenched authority. Someone told me I would like Palahnuik because he's transgressive. I read Fight Club, then rented the movie, and was repelled by them both, not for the concept, but for the presentation. Top notch transgression is Patricia Highsmith.

[antbrman]

what are you gay? lol

[BeatBuddy]

Gay? Chuck Palahniuk is gay. He mentions it in his interview in Rolling Stone.

[LF39MC]

You obviously have no idea what a good piece of literature is.

[BeatBuddy]

Yes I do. Patricia Highsmith. How do you THOSE apples!

[S8M3G]

everybodies bashing you BeatBuddy for your dislike of Fight Club. I'll disagree on my feelings on the book, but I can see where you're coming from. I think the passive lack of emotion in the novel is the heart of the story. He does not care anymore about anything. If thats not you're thing, or you don't connect with that, it's entirely understandable.

It's a real shame that people get so defensive about everything.

[BeatBuddy]

Beautifully stated. You hit the nail on the head. I think you should do some writing of your own.

This level of antipathy comes dangerously close to the antipathy I receive for my contempt for Ayn Rand.

[BagOfCunts]

Repulsive? How so?

I mean if you going to go out of your way to post a comment about how you find a book repulsive on a video of the author, then at least explain your reasons.

[BeatBuddy]

Glad you asked. My dislike of Fight Club is individualistic. Someone told me about this transgressive writer, assured that I would like him. I was repulsed by the characters being too similar to each other and too distant, particularly in an ambiance of raw pugilism. I have a need for personal intimacy with members of my sex, and two other transgressive writers, Annie Proulx (Brokeback Mountain) and Patricia Highsmith respond to that need.

[Jullepwnz]

You're not explaining why you think it's bad. Everyone has a need for intimacy, that doesn't mean they didn't like the movie. In fact, a central theme is the protagonist having intimacy issues. I think you're a politically correct douchebag with your head up your ass and thus can't handle transgressive fiction that doesn't fit your particular political sentiment.

[subom]

haha he's a great author!

[seeohdee]

That's me in the tuxedo t-shirt. That was a good time. Met him again last night.

[orbert83]

hey i saw him in may! did you go out of town to see him like i did? i went to LA (pasadena). it was great seeing him again

[seeohdee]

Since the meeting in Dallas, I've moved to Ohio, so we drove to OSU and saw him there. He was amazing, as always.

[ThaDriver15]

haha, i was there in dallas at the borders. stood for 4 hours to get him to sign my books, but it was worth it. =)

[menacingmike]

ahh, sweet!

[orbert83]

haha! thats me in the white shirt on the left! thats awesome!

[tgrubbs]

whatever, I don't believe you, you like to lie about things Robelle

[deftdelivery]

LOSE WEIGHT.

[backinburntcity]

Haha! Thanks for posting this.