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Chuck Palahniuk: Stranger Than Fiction

Chuck Palahniuk' s world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. In his first collection of nonfiction, Chuck Palahniuk brings us into this world, and gives us a glimpse of what inspires his fiction. At the Rock Creek Lodge Testicle Festival in Missoula, Montana, average people perform public sex acts on an outdoor stage. In a mansion once occupied by The Rolling Stones, Marilyn Manson reads his own Tarot cards and talks sweetly to his beautiful actress girlfriend. Across the country, men build their own full-size castles and rocketships that will send them into space. Palahniuk himself experiments with steroids, works on an assembly line by day and as a hospice volunteer by night, and experiences the brutal murder of his father by a white supremacist. With this new direction, Chuck Palahniuk has proven he can do anything.

Non-Fiction címmel is megjelent.

Eredeti megjelenés éve: 2004

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Anchor, 2005
256 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9780385722223

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Chuck Palahniuk: Stranger Than Fiction

A könyv legnagyobb erénye, hogy rövid. Sajnálom, Chuck, de a legtöbb sztorit el sem olvastam volna, ha nem a te neved virít a borítón. Te pedig csúnyán kihasználod ezt és minden vacakot lenyomsz az ember torkán. Annak örülök csak, hogy hamarosan szinte semmire se fogok emlékezni ebből a kötetből.

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Chuck Palahniuk: Stranger Than Fiction

Vicces (és rohadtul nem vicces) sztorik, amolyan palahniukosak, csak ez most igaz. Volt mondjuk kettő, a bírkózós meg a traktoros, amin halálra untam magam – túl sok volt az „élő” közvetítés. De a kezdeti nehézségek után (mindkét történet viszonylag a könyv elején van) egyre jobban élveztem, a portrék nagyon tetszettek (Juliette Lewisé volt a legjobb: mindig is gondoltam, hogy nem véletlenül játszik teljesen lökött karaktereket), de a legeslegjobb rész persze az volt, ami Palahniukról szólt. Ez amolyan „kedvem van néhány érdekes sztorihoz, fellapozom” könyv, véletlenszerű történetekkel. National Geographic Chuck Palahniuk Special Edition.


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You want to be happy? You want to be at peace? You want to be healthy?
As any good writer would tell you: unpack „happy.” What does it look like? How can you demonstrate happiness on the page — that vague, abstract concept. Show, don't tell. Show me „happiness.”
In this way, learning to write means learning to look at yourself and the world in extreme close-up. If nothing else, maybe learning how to write will force us to take a closer look at everything, to really see it — if only in order to reproduce it on a page.
Maybe with a little more effort and reflection, you can live the kind of life story a literary agent would want to read.

[You Are Here]

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Mirrors are only the methadone of bodybuilding. You need a real audience. There’s that joke: How many bodybuilders does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Three – one to screw in the bulb and two to say, “Really, dude, you look massive!”
Yeah, that joke. It’s not really a joke.

[Frontiers]

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So this is why I write.
Because most times, your life isn’t funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly stand it. […]
All those years you write and write. You sit in the dark and say, someday. A book contract. A jacket photo. A book tour. A Hollywood movie. And someday you get them, and it’s not how you planned. Then you get the screenplay for your book in the mail, and it says: “Fight Club by Jim Uhls.” He’s the screenwriter. Way underneath that, in parentheses, it says: Based on the novel by you. That’s why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. And writing makes you look back. Because since you can’t control life, at least you can control your version.

[Almost California]

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It’s such a chick thing to think life should just go on forever.

[Frontiers]

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A friend of mine lives in a “haunted” house. It’s a nice white farmhouse in the country, surrounded with gardens, and every few weeks he’ll call in the middle of the night to say, “Someone is screamingin the basement. I’m going down with my gun, and if I don’t call you back in five minutes, send the police!”
It’s all very dramatic, but it’s the kind of complaint that smells like a boast. It’s the psychic equivalent of saying, “My diamond ring is so very heavy.” Or, “I wish I could wear this thong bikini without everyone lusting after me.”

[The Lady]

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: gyémántgyűrű
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He says, “I used to just like to look. When I didn’t know anybody and I first moved to Florida, I’d sit and I’d watch people. Just listen to conversations and observe. If you intend to create something that people will observe and listen to, you’ve got to listen to them first. That’s the key to it.”

[Reading Yourself]

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Manson brings out watercolor paintings he’s done […]. One shows the grinning heads of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold impaled on the raised fingers of a peace sign.
“It turns out that they weren’t fans,” he says. “One Denver reporter did enough research to prove they disliked me because I was too commercial. They were into more underground stuff. It pissed me off that the media took one thing, and it just kept snowballing. And it was because I’m an easy target. I look guilty. And I was on tour at the time.”
He says, “People always ask me, ‘What would you have said to them if you could talk to them?’ and my answer is, ‘Nothing. I would’ve listened.’ That’s the problem. Nobody listened to what they were saying. If you’d listened, you’d have known what was going on.”

[Reading Yourself]

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“The only fear I have left is the fear of not being able to create, of not having inspiration,” Manson says.
“I may fail, and this may not work but at least I’m choosing to do it. It’s not something I’m doing because I’m stuck with it.”

[Reading Yourself]

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The only thing worse than showing up at LAX ugly is showing up ugly but showing signs that you really tried to look good. You gave it your best effort but this is the best you could do. Your hair’s cut and skin’s tanned, your teeth are flossed and the hair in your nose is tweezed, but you still look ugly. You’re wearing a 100 percent cotton casual knit shirt from the Gap. You gargled. You used eyedrops and deodorant, but you still come off the plane missing a few chromosomes.
That wasn’t going to happen to me.
The idea was to make sure nobody thought I was even trying to look good.

[Almost California]

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Sorry, your seven minutes is up.

[You Are Here]


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