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Chuck Palahniuk

Author, Fight Club

u/ChuckPalahniuk62 ↗AMA only

How we know it's theirs

Their 2013 r/IAmA AMA, posted from this account

We retrieved 3 posts and 310 comments from u/ChuckPalahniuk62, dated 2013 to 2021, most often in r/IAmA and r/books.

Best moment

A redditor wrote in r/IAmA

On “Hello, yo, hi, I'm Chuck Palahniuk the worst best bad writr. Neither can I spell or keyboard. Ask away.”

Everyone thinks I'm insane when I talk about fight club being primarily a love story. They are just typically dark love stories, you know sorta like real life

u/ChuckPalahniuk62 replied

A secret: Fight Club is "The Great Gatsby" but with more punching and insomnia. A triangle. A 30-year-old boy in crisis ( nick carraway? ) A gunshot resolution. Voila.

More moments

A redditor wrote in r/IAmA

On “Hello, yo, hi, I'm Chuck Palahniuk the worst best bad writr. Neither can I spell or keyboard. Ask away.”

Hi, Mr. Palahniuk, I'm doing my senior year research paper on Invisible Monsters, and I was wondering if there was any perspective you could give me on any part of the book that most people don't think about or realize? It would be incredibly helpful. Thank you for doing this.

u/ChuckPalahniuk62 replied

My original goal, back when I had integrity, was to write all my books with two-word oxymoron titles -- Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, etc. 'Survivor' was first called 'Unnatural Disasters.' But I loved how monsters are usually defined by their…

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Excerpt

A redditor wrote in r/books

On “We Are Chuck Palahniuk and Chelsea Cain: Running the Bad Dream Factory. Ask Us Anything.”

Hey Chuck. This is a long shot because it was in the fall of 2013, maybe 2014. You came to Nashville & I just wanted to shake your hand & I asked if you would accept my gift. You did, thank you. It was a troll doll on a key chain. I know you live a busy life & come across a lot…

u/ChuckPalahniuk62 replied

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Of course I remember. The troll went into the glass case with items that include the penguin sewn by a mortician and the laser-cut wooden plaque portrait of Brad Pitt. Sadly, for the young man who painted me as the Mona Lisa in Boston, the painting was lost in transit and never got to my place after that tour. Sniff. Sorry.