Which chuck palahniuk book should i start with

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For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Which Chuck Palahniuk book should I start with? Thread starter Calypso Start date Sep 4, Tags books. I started with Fight Club myself, it's still my favourite book of his. And it was only his second published work.

I had the pleasure of reading Fight Club way back in , honestly having never heard of the author or even knowing about the book's contents. So much so, that when I originally picked up the book here and in the Brisbane CBD at the time I just presumed it was a work from an Australian author. At least until I read the inside blurb.. So maybe start there? Cannibal Smiliest Anybody can be Ned Slade.

Staff member. RPGnet Member. Validated User. Fight Club. Then read them all. Additionally, the infamous rules of Fight Club were written as a similar exercise. I enjoy things like that when they're done well. He isn't always successful with those sorts of games e. Survivor - A lot of people like this one, but my two criticisms are 1 It's too much like Fight Club , so why bother? On the other hand, if you liked Fight Club , it's a lot like Fight Club , so maybe you'll enjoy it. Invisible Monsters - Loved it.

Unlike the above, this one has good plot twists that didn't seem contrived or predictable. I think I figured out one of three of them. It also happens to have a female central character, which was the first time he'd done that.

Update: Chuck recently published Invisible Monsters Remixed which is an alternate, less linear telling of this novel. I haven't read it, so I can't comment. Choke - I don't hate this one but I really didn't like it. My biggest complaint is the fact that there's all this build-up that ultimately goes nowhere.

I remember reading it, getting about twenty pages from the end, and thinking, "There's no way this is going to wrap up in any way I'm going to find interesting. There are good bits in it, but the end was just a big blah, and there are some attempts to be funny where I'm like, "Yeah, yeah," like the ironic role-playing rape scene in which the female "victim" is constantly giving her male "attacker" a hard time because he isn't playing out her fantasy to the very last detail.

So, okay, he's being victimized and used. Me: "Yeah, yeah. Picking your 2nd Palahniuk is probably the hardest. Many devoted Palahniuk fans admit that he hits a slump where many of his novels feel the same. If you become an admirer, you can make that decision for yourself when you go through Diary , Lullaby , Haunted and the other works from that time. But Damned lets Palahniuk indulge his need to be shocking and transgressive with a lighter touch that works better than many of his other books.

Damned is about Madison Spencer, a year-old girl who finds herself as the newest occupant of Hell. He takes the kitchen sink approach, which makes a lot of sense. There are cages with tortured souls, there are demons who devour people, and there are telephone call centers. And then, Madison basically reenacts The Breakfast Club by building her own little band of misfits who decide to take on the Devil himself and figure out the mystery of how she died.

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