![]() Even before our hero starts to dictate his story - during the few minutes he's supposed to be taking a piss - he's actually in the bathroom dictating the last chapter into the cassette recorder. It's noted on page 7(8?) that a pile of valuable offerings has been left in the front of the passenger cabin. Palahniuk's own interpretation of Survivor's ending is fairly positive: The end of Survivor isn't nearly so complicated.Downer Ending: Virtually any book that doesn't have a bittersweet end.Case in point, Haunted, in which every character has the same tone of voice. Creator Thumbprint: Palahniuk's protagonists are almost all extremely snarky in a very similar way. Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Hazie Coogan to Katherine Kenton in Tell-All.Buffy Speak: Occurs frequently both in speech and narrated thoughts.Bittersweet Ending: Snuff might count.Same collection also contains an angry "Intercourse a pony!" directed to noisy neighbors.Bestiality Is Depraved: "Red Sultan's Big Boy", a story from the collection "Make Something Up" about the horse of the infamous Mr.Beige Prose - Readers may find Palahniuk's terse style honest or lazy or anywhere in between.Author Appeal: Quite possibly the colors Cornflower Blue and Antifreeze Green.(Fight Club and Rant are just two examples where this crops up.) As well as "antifreeze green," at least when it comes to eye colors.All of his books have a passing reference to cornflower blue. And what might be considered an arc color.Arc Words: When he uses them, he refers to them as "choruses".Anti-Hero: Practically all of the protagonists.Other works by Chuck Palahniuk contain examples of: Works by Chuck Palahuniuk with their own pages include: You Do Not Talk About Fight Club: I am Jack's Completely Unauthorized Essay Collection (2008) (introduction).Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories (2004).Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon (2003).Legacy (half novella, half coloring book, 2017).Bait (half short story collection, half coloring book, 2016).Fight Club 2 (graphic novel sequel to Fight Club, 2015).Haunted (a book of short stories, 2005). ![]()
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