/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.16317956]

What do we think of him?

[Anonymous No.16317964]

>>16317956
Alright writing. Plots are kinda interesting but his 90's angst is a bit annoying and he has some cool insights and development of those insights

[Anonymous No.16317965]

He's ok. He wrote fight club. I thought the movie was better the book. But admitting that you liked either is like admitting you have some embarrassing medical problem. This guy gets a lot of hate.

[Anonymous No.16317974]

>>16317956
We think that male homosexuality is a mental illness.

[Anonymous No.16317988]

Only read FC and Haunted. Read FC after seeing the movie when I was 14. Movie was better. Read Haunted when I was 15. It felt like an author’s attempt at internet shock humor pre-internet. Most of the stories could have been implication arrows on /b/ circa 2006.
I rate him “meh”

[Anonymous No.16318068]

Fight Club 3 is his craziest work by far but it's not a book, too bad nobody understood it.
Also nobody was willing to give him another shot after the disaster that was Fight Club 2

[Anonymous No.16318083]

>>16317956
who's "we" you speak of asshole?

[Anonymous No.16318091]

>>16317956
I read his novel about the guy whose estranged brother (or sister idr) became a tranny because his face was burned in an aerosol spraycan accident. It was mediocre.

[Anonymous No.16318111]

>>16318068
I don't really understand Fight Club 2 and 3. They seem a lot more overly meta and obtuse than the original. I think Fight Club 2 feels like an unintentional parody and I really can't make heads or tails of either of the sequels but there's something compelling about them still. Maybe it's just the art, I don't know.

[Anonymous No.16318121]

>>16317956
thanks for writing fight club, I really liked the movie it when I was a teenager. Ive read a few of his books, theyre whatever, he will only be remembered as the guy who wrote the book fight club was based on

[Anonymous No.16318130]

>>16317956
Absolute kook of a YA author. Respect how dude goes positively balls deep on his research.

[Anonymous No.16318160]

My second favorite Chuck after E. Cheese

[Anonymous No.16318291]

>>16318160
>not knowing Charles Entertainment Cheese's real name
>not listing Chuck Norris as your favorite Chuck
NGMI

[Anonymous No.16318330]

>>16318111
3 is an entire story made of largely unexplained symbology and allusions to visual and literary archetypes held together by a substrate of metanarrative through which you could theoretically, fully understand a basic plot filled with more or less obscure/cultured references

You'd need something several times as long just to unpack the whole thing (and I'm only talking about the visuals), let alone explaining it
And in the end you'd be left wondering if you're just overreading into it, because it's not like the author ever confirmed shit

It's so purposefully convoluted in its cryptic exposition, it's clearly, barely made with the reader in mind, which can make it kinda pointless to many and retardedly "up its own ass" to others
But it's probably just a guy playing and taking advantage of a new, visually driven medium to experiment with narrative after years of no visuals and a quick self-fellating cashgrab

While 2 was more of an open "fuck you" to the readers (which in the end made it more pretentious than anything), this one isn't even considering the public
It's art for art's sake at best, unintelligible mad ramblings at worst
Depending on the reader, it can be seen as genius or absolute trash, but it sure didn't help that comicbook critics are largely mouthbreathers

[Anonymous No.16319712]

Liked Fight Club and Survivor. Want to read Choke and Invisible Monsters

[Anonymous No.16319807]

>>16317956
White boi drivel.

[Anonymous No.16319846]

>>not knowing Charles Entertainment Cheese's real name
>>not listing Chuck Norris as your favorite Chuck
>NGMI

[Anonymous No.16319941]

Why did he have to pepper so many random pieces of trivia throughout Survivor? Every other page I felt like he was just pulling out random facts that were completely irrelevant to the plot

[Anonymous No.16319949]

he's an edgelord
/b/ the author

[z No.16321544]

>>16318330
care to give a quick rundown of 2 and 3? i like the original story but i do not care for cash grabs

[Anonymous No.16321568]

>>16317956
I love him. I love the way he writes, and I greatly enjoy how he experiments with writing styles.

Rant is his best work, objectively. My favorite is Invisible Monsters, and Fight club is a close third. But, after you read about 8 of his books, you just don't need to read any more.