Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread

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Stories you ll never forget just try from literature s favorite transgressive author Representing work that spans several years, 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 Expedition, fans will be thrilled to find to see a side of Tyler Durden never seen before in a precursor story to Fight Club.Funny, caustic, bizarre, poignant these stories represent everything readers have come to love and expect from Chuck Palahniuk They have all the impact of a sharp blow to the solar plexus, with considerable collateral damage to the funny bone. Best Download Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread Author Chuck Palahniuk For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Knock Knock Starts this collection off in true Palahniuk fashion This tale of a man telling jokes at his dying father s bedside, and reminiscing about their past is full of sentimental pathos but is also guaranteed to have you cringing in discomfort.Eleanor The main point of this piece seems to be how many malapropisms can be shoved into a piece of writing, while retaining its basic comprehensibility The malapropisms also serve as double entendres, for example Jehovah s Witless Most Knock Knock Starts this collection off in true Palahniuk fashion This tale of a man telling jokes at his dying father s bedside, and reminiscing about their past is full of sentimental pathos but is also guaranteed to have you cringing in discomfort.Eleanor The main point of this piece seems to be how many malapropisms can be shoved into a piece of writing, while retaining its basic comprehensibility The malapropisms also serve as double entendres, for example Jehovah s Witless Most of the substituted words are actually funnier than that, throwing an added layer of meaning onto the events However, although clever, I found it ultimately annoying.How Monkey Got Married, Bought A House, an...I don t know what s up with all of the overly negative reviews for this book Personally, and I don t know if you give a shit but I don t really expect you to, I ve always sided with Kurt Vonnegut when it comes to book reviews Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous He or she is a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae Just read the damn book Don t expect every short story to be the best you ve ever read As long as you do that, I don t know what s up with all of the overly negative reviews for this book Personally, and I don t know if you give a shit but I don t really expect you to, I ve always sided with Kurt Vonnegut when it comes to book reviews Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous He or she is a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae Just read the damn book Don t expect every short story to be the best you ve ever read As long as you do that, you ll be pleasantly entertained Just like I was These stories are pretty damn good, and they re worth a read if your interest is piqued even slightly.My favorite stories Red Sultan s Big Boy, Why Aardvark Never Landed, and Inclinations I also liked Phoenix and Loser What Palahniuk is doing by blending folktale with traditional modern literature is, I think, really interesting Even if in some cases the folktale style takes away from the story and appears to just be an exercise in tech...It s been awhile since I ve enjoyed a Palahniuk book Huge fan of his early stuff but I found myself gettingdisappointed with every new book he published until I gave up completely On a whim, I decided to give him another chance, hoping he d maybe gone back to his roots and was extremely happy to find he has This is like any other short story collection, some are fantastic, others good, and a few just ok but none of these shorts can be categorized as boring Those unfamiliar with It s been awhile since I ve enjoyed a Palahniuk ...Best left unreadI liked Haunted, and I thought this might be like that I m not sure what this is It s a bunch of boring stories, which aren t in any way entertaining.You don t need to unread them, you need to never have read them to begin with Save yourself it s too late for me.Aim low and you won t be disappointedChuck Palahniuk, Make Something Up Stories You Can t UnreadPlenty of shock, just not enough Palahniuk awe 3.5 This book is filled with two dozen of Chuck Palahniuk s short stories Make Something Up is clear evidence that Palahniuk is the king of grotesque and a sometimes master of the short story Sometimes his prose is a bit uneven A few lazy narrative couple trips but a couple of these stories were nearly perfect gems of disgust There wereAim low and you won t be disappointedChuck Palahniuk, Make Something Up Stories You Can t UnreadPlenty of shock, just not enough Palahniuk awe 3.5 This book is filled with two dozen of Chuck Palahniuk s short stories Make Something Up is clear evidence that Palahniuk is the king of grotesque and a sometimes master of the short story Sometimes his prose is a bit uneven A few lazy narrative couple trips but a couple of these stories were nearly perfect gems of disgust There were times when he seemed to be channeling adisturbed version of David Sedaris see 3 Monkey, 9 Coyote, 18 Aardvark Oth...Haha I finished this one year to the day after I bought it Every person I tell that, they say How do you know Because I used the purchase receipt as a bookmark, fuckers Do not question me I mean, it s pretty fair to question me when it comes to dates, times, and whatnot, but when it comes to not throwing away a receipt out of sheer laziness, I m unassailable.It s kind of become tradition for me to write an annual ish defense of Chuck Palahniuk I think he s become a very popular author to Haha I finished this one year to the day after I bought it Every person I tell that, they say How do you know Because I used the purchase receipt as a bookmark, fuckers Do not question me I mean, it s pretty fair to question me when it comes to dates, times, and whatnot, but when it comes to not throwing away a receipt out of sheer laziness, I m unassailable.It s kind of become tradition for me to write an annual ish defense of Chuck Palahniuk I think he s become a very popular author to hate And by now, he s written enough books that everyone, even hardcore fans, has disliked a couple or found a couple forgettable But I m not feeling in a defensive mood today And I gotta tell you, if you re reading this, Palahniuk s 18th or 19th book, depending on whether you count the Invisibl...Make Something Up Stories You Can t Unreadby Chuck PalahniukFinally receiving a degree in communications, Monkey takes her newly written resume to Llewellyn Food Product Marketers, Inc Now employed she finds herself standing behind a folding table located in grocery and department stores offering food samples for shopping consumers Blessed with nonstop charm and a pleasant smile, Monkey was an instant success However when the company is faced with the test of selling a problematic kind of Make Something Up Stories You Can t Unreadby Chuck PalahniukFinally receiving a degree in communications, Monkey takes her newly written resume to Llewellyn Food Product Marketers, Inc Now employed she finds herself standing behind a folding table located in grocery and department stores offering food samples for shopping consumers Blessed with nonstop charm and a pleasant smile, Monkey was an instant success However when the company is faced with the test of selling a problematic kind of cheese that has the fragrance of feces and burning hair with a touch of salmonella, an unforgettable cast of characters appear All watch in tense drama as Coyote throws down his gauntlet in an ultimate challenge for promotion.This and many others make up a collection of short stories full of wit and humor written by none other than Chuck Palahniuk himself Chuck has a ...It really pains me to give this book such a low rating I m a HUGE Palahniuk fan and I ve loved every other book by him that I ve read I was expecting to love this as well, I really thought that short stories written by Palahniuk would pack quite a punch But I was terribly wrong and I wish I could unread these stories and scrub them from my brain Each and every story literally left me sitting there with a confused pained expression on my face and thinking what in the actual fuck did I just It really pains me to give this book such a low rating I m a HUGE Palahniuk fan and I ve loved every other book by him that I ve read I was expecting to love this as well, I really thought that short sto...Why do I always think I will enjoy Palahniuk s books And then I don t Boo.I m a huge fan of short story collections They are perfect for a busy and hectic schedule You can read one orat a time, depending on how long your reality break is and you don t have to worry about getting caught in the middle of a can t put this book down moment I also like the fact that a well written one has a concentrated punch that leaves you pondering it for days A great collection will offer you a sampling of the author s thoughts across their spectrum of moods, just a taste I m a huge fan of short story collections They are perfect for a busy and hectic schedule You can read one orat a time, depending on how long your reality break is and you don t have to worry about getting caught in the middle of a can t put this book down moment I also like the fact that a well written one has a concentrated punch that leaves you pondering it for days A great collection will offer you a sampling of the author s thoughts across their spectrum of moods, just a taste of wh...

Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread
  • English
  • 07 October 2019
  • Hardcover
  • 318 pages
  • 0385538057
  • Chuck Palahniuk
  • Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread