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Chuck Palahniuk is a novelist who aims to unsettle. Priding himself on his disturbing verbs, the transgressive author specializes in detailing the most shocking and abhorrent sides of humanity allowing the reader to systematically strip away their fears and hopefully move towards the light.
From his debut novel Fight Club, Palahniuk has indulged in the violent, the grotesque, and the deranged often dished out with a heavy helping of black humor. His decades-spanning body of work includes 19 novels and short story collections as well as three works of non-fiction and two adult coloring books, each filled with disturbed and dangerous characters.
Palahniuk’s newest novel, Not Forever, But For Now, adds more faces to the fold, chronicling a family of professional killers responsible for some of history’s most heinous crimes. As we prepare to meet Otto, Cecil, and the rest of this unhinged clan,...
Chuck Palahniuk is a novelist who aims to unsettle. Priding himself on his disturbing verbs, the transgressive author specializes in detailing the most shocking and abhorrent sides of humanity allowing the reader to systematically strip away their fears and hopefully move towards the light.
From his debut novel Fight Club, Palahniuk has indulged in the violent, the grotesque, and the deranged often dished out with a heavy helping of black humor. His decades-spanning body of work includes 19 novels and short story collections as well as three works of non-fiction and two adult coloring books, each filled with disturbed and dangerous characters.
Palahniuk’s newest novel, Not Forever, But For Now, adds more faces to the fold, chronicling a family of professional killers responsible for some of history’s most heinous crimes. As we prepare to meet Otto, Cecil, and the rest of this unhinged clan,...
- 9/5/2023
- by Jenn Adams
- bloody-disgusting.com
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Chuck Palahniuk’s latest meditation on the haves and have-nots struggles to take a promising premise beyond surface-level shock value.
“It doesn’t matter so much who does what. The predators must prey. The prey must be predated. They only wish to be preyed upon by someone who will do the job properly.”
Chuck Palahniuk has been a top voice in subversive, satirical storytelling since the late ’90s through generation-defining texts like Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, and Choke. Palahniuk’s ability to get under society’s skin through pitch black parody and commentary on hidden subcultures has sustained a rich career that can be very hit or miss, but is at least always odd and interesting. 2007’s Rant might be Palahniuk’s last great novel, while there’s still plenty to appreciate in his works across the last decade. Not Forever, But For Now is deeply in the pocket and...
“It doesn’t matter so much who does what. The predators must prey. The prey must be predated. They only wish to be preyed upon by someone who will do the job properly.”
Chuck Palahniuk has been a top voice in subversive, satirical storytelling since the late ’90s through generation-defining texts like Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, and Choke. Palahniuk’s ability to get under society’s skin through pitch black parody and commentary on hidden subcultures has sustained a rich career that can be very hit or miss, but is at least always odd and interesting. 2007’s Rant might be Palahniuk’s last great novel, while there’s still plenty to appreciate in his works across the last decade. Not Forever, But For Now is deeply in the pocket and...
- 9/5/2023
- by Daniel Kurland
- bloody-disgusting.com
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