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Bezig met laden... Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread (2015)door Chuck Palahniuk
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Edgy and provocative, Make Something Up, is a collection of dark, humorous, and disturbing tales that explore the absurdities and complexities of modern life. It’s Chuck Palahniuk having fun in the depths of alienation, consumerism, and the darker aspects of human nature. Each story is crafted with his signature wit and razor-sharp observations, depicting violence, taboo subjects, and unconventional narrative structures. It’s definitely worth a read, just be prepared for a rollercoaster ride through the twisted corridors of the human psyche. Dude, I don't even know what to say. Chuck's head must be a scary place! This book is made up of 15-20 short stories which range from the bizarre to the even more bizarre? Haha. He certainly has an interesting take on the world and while I enjoyed some of the stories, namely Zombies and Inclinations, some of the stories just had me scratching my head. If you are not a fan of the normal, Chuck is definitely the guy for you. If you get grossed out easily, or are not a fan of way outside the boundaries humor this might not be the book for you. One thing Chuck Palahniuk is good at is making poignant commentary on society and the human condition through disgusting, disturbing, and absurd stories. Most of the tales in this transgressive collection definitely do that. A few stories were kind of like "meh" for me, but the ones that hit home really kick you in the feels because they are so out there yet somehow very relatable. I connect with his characters because they are usually outcasts, marginalized, or just feel alone in some way. Palahniuk is obviously not for everyone. His stories cross lines that go places some readers don't want to visit. But in my opinion, that is what good literature with important messages often has to do. Sidenote: in the audiobook version, the author narrates some of the stories himself, and hearing his purposely awkward reading voice is a weird bonus.
**** Notes From The Transgressive Underground. If Fight Club is the only thing that pops into your head when you hear the name Chuck Palahniuk, then you have some reading to do. I can understand if that is the first thing that pops into your head, because that was a great work that had the luck to be in the right place at the write time, but Mr. Palahniuk has written a fistfull of novels since then, and some non-fiction, and now he has written Make Something Up: Stories You Can’t Unread, a collection of short fiction. Most collections have some hits, some misses and some filler, and this collection, made up of stories both published and unpublished, is about the same. Mr. Palahniuk’s unique style and voice, however, make them all unmistakably his. As usual, Mr. Palahniuk creates gritty, mundane characters that you invest in immediately. These are people whom we would overlook if we saw them on the street, or shy away from up close, but Mr. Palahniuk shows us their humanity up close, in all of its terrible reality. In Knock Knock we meet a man who for his entire life has been the butt of his “old man’s” jokes, and as a result doesn't understand when not to joke. Red Sultan’s Big Boy is an innocent horse with the reputation of a sinner. The Jew That Saved Christmas is a vision of everyone’s worst Secret Santa nightmare exchange. The novella Excursion is a precursor to Fight Club, and shows a side to Tyler Durden that is both incisive and new. One thing that ties these disparate tales together is Mr. Palahniuk’s ability to make the strange ordinary, and the ordinary more interesting than anything we see in our everyday lives. He could make every tedious moment of a grocery store clerk’s eight hour shift fascinating. Make Something Up contains over a decade’s worth of work, so the quality is sometimes uneven, but the one thing that is consistent is Mr. Palahniuk’s insistence on pushing his fiction to the edge. Are these stories funny, sarcastic and poignant? Yes. Are they graphic, disturbing and grotesque? Yes. Should you read them for yourself to find out which is which? Once again, yes. Just don’t be surprised to find that most are a bit of both. Review by: Jenn Rollison and Mark Palm Full Reviews Available at: http://www.thebookendfamily.weebly.co...
"Make Something Up is a compilation of 21 stories and one novella (some previously published, some not) that will disturb and delight. The absurdity of both life and death are on full display: In "Zombies," the best and brightest of a high school prep school become tragically addicted to the latest drug craze: electric shocks from cardiac defibrillators. In "Knock, Knock," a son hopes to tell one last off-color joke to a father in his final moments, while in "Tunnel of Love," a massage therapist runs the curious practice of providing 'relief' to dying clients. And in "Excursion," fans will be thrilled to find to see a side of Tyler Durden never seen before in a precursor story to Fight Club."-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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'Zombies' was okay, I guess? ( )