Chuck Palahniuk reading "Guts" - incomplete

[HoCuSXPoCuSXMCR]

I'm so excited I'm reading this story to my friends this weekend to see their reactions. =]

[pickells]

I read the book ages ago and I thought guts was funny and absolutely disgusting, but I listened to it on YouTube and had to force my mum to turn it off as suddenly felt very lightheaded and sick, thought it wouldn't bother me, but clearly it did

[buttersyrupnpancakes]

i couldn't hold my breath that long but the story defo made me a little lightheaded lol. Chuck is awesome.

[broadwaymelody33]

I didn't faint when I read this, but I felt an overwhelming urge to grab my butt and make sure everything was in tact.

[Slide2671]

The thing is, I'm a huge fan of minimalism, but a lot of people don't do it right. I think that minimalism is very connecting, and gets the message across pretty quickly. This is why I like Chuck Palahniuk's novels, he doesn't go into fucking pointless details and overly long chapters. Each character talks in a way he/she would in real life, the book moves along at a fast pace, and the story always remains sharp.

Thank you Mr. Palahniuk. Excuse the trolls.

[redmangoose182]

LOL fucked up story.

[NAVMAR16]

I read this story online. I thought it was great!!!! Yes a little sick, but it was still great!!!! Now Im going to buy the book!!!! I agree with JamesTKirkCobain, Lady GaGas music is what true nightmares are made of.

[JamesTKirkCobain]

I dont get how people could faint at this at all. My god, talk about sensitive. Lady GaGas music gets me sicker, seriously. I get visibly nauseous everytime I hear her absolute shit music.. I read this Guts story and thought it was funny as hell. What I want to know is did that really happen to him? Because he claims in the story that because he is missing 5 feet of his intestine he can't gain weight, but he dont look skinny.

[Slide2671]

Palahniuk? No it never happened to him, the book never names the narrator. I went onto The Cult, and saw that he did this to completely put you in the narrator's shoes. It's like he's telling you the story exactly how he would in real life.



[buttersyrupnpancakes]

@Slide2671 i'm glad if it didn't happen to him lol. but certainly if it had it would explain how he wrote such viscerally riveting books.

[menziesa]

This is not the complete story. It gets REALLY disgusting at the end. The narrator's experience is the worst, and I believe the main cause of the fainting and vomiting. Great story. I wish Palahniuk would help me with my novel :(.

[ProRanting]

I got nauseated at the candle part of the story. The other ones didn't bother me to much. I lol'd multiple times throughout the story, but the candle thing really bothered me.

[00bilz]

@ProRanting

Agreed, the imagery he uses there makes it feel like it's you.

[meltyourheadaches326]

I read this story online a while ago and although it was kinda disturbing, it was more hilarious than gross. I wouldnt have fainted, I would have cried from laughing so hard. Is that bad?

[LovelyBloodflow23]

@jsuglia SERIOUSLY FIND SOMETHING BETTER TO DO WITH YOUR TIME. I see your negative comments on too many Palahniuk videos.

[montane]

I was at this very reading, it was awesome that someone fainted just as they were reaching for a door to get out!

[phxsns1]

Do people faint from trying to hold their breath, or from the content of the story?

[theplanman]

@phxsns1 - content I believe...I get a bit woozy when I read it or hear it read, and I ain't holdin' my breath

[digestyourflesh]

i love this.

[ragglefraggle09]

haha this guy's into some kinky shit

but yea i found this as humorously sophomoric as it is disgusting, except for the last story because it seemed to feel out of place. However, i don't really believe the people who say they completely laughed out loud while reading this, since its usually as a method for convincing themselves they are truly immortal to disgusting shit and troubling human tragedy, so in a way they can coin themselves as "unique". I honestly don't buy it lmfao

[33plissken]

I hear that "Haunted" is in the works to be made into a film.

[kasey172]

I almost passed out reading the synopsis on Wikipedia... No joke.

[m2mfan4eva]

@kasey172 I know, I remember reading on wikipedia that 35 ppl fainted when listening. Wow.

[CeruleanFilms]

Someone needs to read this story to Robert Kelly.

[ESBUAXY]

(cont.) I'm not saying it's impossible, but even if it really happened (I read that the 3 situations are based on actual events), it is so absurd that I couldn't but laugh out loud like an idiot holding the book in my hands.

Sick? Yeah, I guess it is, but nauseating or faint inducing it certainly is NOT.

Now, I'll keep on reading.

[ESBUAXY]

Is this a joke or just a publicity stunt? People fainting over this story? Where are we, the 18th century?

C'mon, I started reading Haunted yesterday and so far so good, I like it, this is the first time I read any Palahniuk so I'm still wondering if the rest of the book is as good... BUT, while reading Guts I couldn't help myself laughing at the whole absurdity of it... (cont)

[fuckyoutoodotcom]

my friend read this to me when i was high

[PsychoticVampiric]

What does it say about my mental health that I was able to read the story and afterward feel sorry for the poor bastards yet none too disturbed? (grossed out, but not to the point of vomiting)

[MisLindsey]

Not that bad. I cringed a little but I was not ill.

[st1tch3s]

i was in the audience :)

[saeptus]

If you think Palahniuk's stories are disgusting, read Georges Bataille's 'Story of the Eye.' While Bataille wasn't as humorous as Palahniuk, Bataille crossed all sorts of lines with 'Story of the Eye'... When I read it, I realized that I, and indeed anybody, could write anything. And after you've read that, try reading Comte de Lautreamont's 'Maldoror.' The violence is carnivalesque and the anger so over-the-top at times that it is oddly humorous. Then read Blaise Cendrars 'Moravagine.'

[devo5]

No.

[BrianMcD86]

No thanks.

[vOoNneE]

I just read it... and now I'm listening to it... I guess it helps having a sick and twisted mind so you don't faint. I luckily have a sick and twisted mind. This was still disgusting... but in the most mind-blowing of ways. :] I also laughed (kind of nervously) several times.

[EdNortonisMineLol]

Loved the story, but it freaked me out so much... didn't stop me from telling all my friends, though!

[Sps7890]

Haunted is such a great book, and St. Gut Free's story is disgusting XD I didn't faint when I was reading it, though.

[mcjprr]

first time i read this i was sitting in my english class in school

i just laughed soo much

[fuhrerschein2008]

It is the most disgusting story I have ever read. But definitely not a bad one.

[billkurtisrules]

I found the thing with the stuff being shoved in your dick the most disgusting but i've read this story before, and it wasn't as naseua inducing on paper.

[SpaceCowboy941]

Fuck yeah it is. I read it, and I fainted at the Arab masturbation part. It took me a while, but I was thinking about it on the toilet, and BOOM, I hit the floor. Anybody here who's fainted, don't you have the BEST fuckin' dreams when you faint? It's so awesome. Those who faint to this story, I see as having a very keen sense of empathy and imagination. I'm a b0gger, I've already proven my ability to handle disgusting shit. This story actually put me in the position, but the pain was too much...

[NovemberRain888]

I was on the verge of fainting when I was reading it with my boyfriend. I usually never faint when it comes to things like this. :( ego killer lol

[marokokisetter]

sure its grotesque

but its darkly funny.. :-D

[KiwiManoCornuta]

This part didn't bother me at all! I can't believe he's actually had people faint at readings of it!

[themantis98]

Seriouly I enjoyed it

[DEACONAP4LOVE]

when you read this to yourself without hearing laughing and not expecting whats coming next...it really does get next to you.

[freakinpenguins]

i dont' know, when you have someone read it to you... with a scary voice and terrior... it messes with your head you get pretty messed up

[LetsSingaSong]

i couldnt stop laughing when i read this. when i read it, I imagine tyler durden narrorating it

[moviewatcheralaska]

He came to Alaska in 2004 read Guts it didn't disturb me it was gross but humorus

[gabieatsghosts]

2004 :|

[snothammer]

I actually, somehow, never got nauseated from this story. I laughed the first time, and every time, I read it. I love telling people about because they get so disgusted. Then I try to convince them to read the book, and they won't. That's even funnier to me, despite the fact that they're missing out on such a great book.

[killingtime15]

i've made all my best friends read it for the sake of watching their faces

[elpablo666]

the faces on the rest of the kids in my class when me and my teacher were talking about this story was priceless

[ChaserChannel]

Reading it made my anus hurt.

[RBlovesKOP]

For some odd reason I didn't think the story was that bad. Perhaps I am much more warped that I thought I was.

[phoenixfirelocks]

i cant understand why this video is said to be taken from Guts if it is a chapter from Haunted. Is Guts another book whose chapter was included in Haunted? I've just discovered palahniuk recently so consider me a newbie.

[AwakenedSomnabulist]

I believe guts to be a story included in Haunted

[petrpechar]

Oh i see it's just that it's not named as guts in Haunted. thanks for the clarification :)

[killingtime15]

guts is a short story in a book.

the book is basically one long story formed around a series palahniuks unrelated short storys and poems

[NoveltySocks]

I wasn't actually that grossed out by the story at all.

[ronery231]

wow, so tough. good for you, you must be pretty fucked up

[BoochMarie0816]

My sister and I are reading Guts right now.

I remember the first time I read it was on my school bus, and I kept checking over my shoulder to make sure nobody was reading what I was reading.

[aperfectsonnetx]

haha, i first read it at the library at my college and i was doing the same thing.

[Pencil173]

I remember the first time I read guts.

I could hardly finish reading it.

[DiscoGabe]

This story is so intense, I have no idea how he can read it in a funny way.

[boxesbeforebuddha]

Agreed, this is not the voice I hear in my head when I read this story. Actually, when reading palahniuk since seeing fight club I always hear Ed Norton narating...

[ClydeFrog7]

The story was not that bad at all. I read through the whole thing without feeling sick once.

[BlackbirdMcNight]

i love palahniuk but i wanted to puke when i first read that story. i don't think i could ever pass out only by reading something, though.

[casper951]

scarrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

[207tj]

This story is included in the book Haunted.

[theplanman]

Really?? Maybe that's why I wrote it in the description...

[207tj]

Oh, sorry. He wrote Guts years before he wrote Haunted though.

[theplanman]

Yes, you're right about that. He was waiting for the right book idea to be able to include it for a while. He reads it very well.

[photographyisfreedom]

When I read the story, I made a face. Everyone did, you can't deny it. When I heard 70+ people fainted, I HAD to see him read it to an audience. I didn't read it as humorously as he did, so I'm glad I saw this. ^-^

[donovanfrost]

Very distrubing story.

[yeogav]

guts

[Oziad09]

he seems more normal than any one of my neighbors. Gosh, I wonder what THEY have written

[shroomsrgood]

palahniuk is great, i have almost all his books

[rehctelfnaes]

I had heard stories about the story before I bought it.

When I read it, I honestly only flinched when he mentioned the condom filled with peanut butter thing.

Icky

[SydneyBlunt]

man, this is my favorite story from Haunted.

when i first read guts i couldn't believe what i read, i read it a second time. he just knows how to make someone squirm. :)

he is indeed a genius though.

[AnitaClaireMiller]

I read the book. and it's awesome. One my edition it said that at least 73 people had passed out while hearing chuck reading Guts. I wonder how many have passed out by now.

I Love Chuck Palahniuk's books. The man is a genious.

[theplanman]

He's the best! Cheers!