Stranger Than Fiction, Chuck Palahniuk
Stranger Than Fiction, Chuck Palahniuk
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Stranger Than Fiction
True Stories

Author: Chuck Palahniuk

Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris, Chuck Palahniuk

Abridged: 4 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/15/2004

Synopsis

Chuck Palahniuk's world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. The pieces that comprise Stranger than Fiction, his first nonfiction collection, prove just how different, in ways both highly entertaining and deeply unsettling. Included are encounters with alternative culture heroes Marilyn Manson and Juliette Lewis; the peculiar wages of fame attendant on the big-budget film production of the movie Fight Club; life as an assembly-line drivetrain installer by day, hospice volunteer driver by night; the really peculiar lives of submariners; the really violent world (and mangled ears) of college wrestlers; the underground world of iron-pumping anabolic-steroid gobblers; the immensely upsetting circumstances of his father's murder and the trial of his killer—each essay or vignette offers a unique facet of existence as lived in and/or observed by one of our most flagrantly daring and original literary talents.

About The Author

Chuck Palahniuk’s novels are the bestselling Lullaby and Fight Club (which was made into a film by director David Fincher), Survivor, Invisible Monsters, and Choke. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Baba on November 23, 2021

I do enjoy Chuck Palahniuk's fiction and was interested to see what he could bring non-fiction wise... and my verdict is that he should very much stick to what he is great at - fiction! My main take, out of this part documentary part essay, is the horrific story that his father was killed by a white......more

Goodreads review by J. on November 10, 2016

*Official rating is 3.5, but always round up! Collections of short works are tricky things to review. I say this almost every bloody time I review one. The reason being that each story or article or piece is inevitably pitted against one another in terms of likeability, and by a law of averages certa......more

Goodreads review by Francisco on January 02, 2013

You will like this book if you are easily amazed by the things your fellow humans do for fun or to make a living, or to survive or to fend off loneliness and despair' if you are not surprised but what we do to light the flickering light of "I am special". You will like this book if you prefer unders......more

Goodreads review by Esteban on September 13, 2022

Las cuatro primeras líneas de la introducción constituyen la columna vertebral de los artículos y crónicas que componen “Error humano”: “todos mis libros tratan de una persona solitaria que busca alguna forma de conectar con los demás”. Con esta declaración, Palahniuk abre una serie de textos que se......more

Goodreads review by Olethros on September 23, 2018

-Palahniadas varias pero interesantes por diferentes razones.- Género. Ensayo (en realidad no, o no solamente, pero hay que clasificarlo en el blog en alguna categoría). Lo que nos cuenta. El libro Error humano (publicación original: Stranger Than Fiction, 2004) recopila una serie de crónicas, extraña......more

Quotes

"Full of wonderful moments...Palahniuk's voice is so distinctive and intimate--he writes as though he is recounting a great story to a close friend." --Los Angeles Times"Step into Palahniuk's dark worldview and watch for what crawls out. These stories are true to him and no one else." --The Oregonian“One of the oddest and most oddly compelling collections to come along for some time.” —The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel“In Chuck Palahniuk’s world, the ride is fast, often disturbing, and there is never any holding back.” —The New Orleans Times-Picayune“Eccentric, idiosyncratic, and often entertaining.” —The Onion"Priceless grace notes from an exceptionally droll and sharp-eyed observer." --The New York Times“Rarely does a collection of essays continually resonate with a main theme and accumulate a weight that would lead you to call it a great book. . . . This is a pretty great book.” —The Seattle Times"The book's lurid appeal rests largely on being let in on Palahniuk's secrets, the raw material for much of his fiction. . . . Acts that give spice to his novels are made more menacing when encountered in the real world." --Black Book

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