Palahnuik

Let me actually try to do a serious post this time, considering my last three posts are titled "Cats," "Mermaids," and "Hipster Sheeps."

And let me be genuinely hipster for a moment (I'm not even wearing my glasses) and diverge topics to one of my favorite authors ever, Chuck Palahnuik.  I'm not surprised if you're sitting there thinking about how you've never heard of him.

Palahnuik doesn't get a whole lot of attention beyond his "generation defining"Fight Club (yes, Palahnuik wrote Fight Club).  This is probably because 1) Palahnuik's stuff is usually heavy on the sex and drugs, 2) it's usually fairly gory, 3) the ideas are twisted and 4) the ideology is sometimes really dark.  Or a combination of all 4.
To me, that's why Palahnuik is so great.

His ideas (or rather, his character's ideas) are so bizarre from what most people believe that it gets incredibly interesting thinking about how would it be if I thought like Tyler Durden?  How would it be to believe that you were sent from the future and someday you'd get sent back (Choke reference)?  But then you never do?

Alright, admittedly, I've only read Choke and Fight Club and I'm working on Damned and trying to find a library that hasn't banned Invisible Monsters, but I really love this man.  Unfortunately he's gay as a rainbow wearing a scarf (hey, I'm bi, so it doesn't really matter) so I can't legitimately love him, but he's just an incredible writer.  When I grow up and become a writer, as has always been my dream, I want to be able to write like he does.

"That's the best revenge of all: happiness.  Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good f*cking life."