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[[File:chuckpalahniuk_autor2small.jpg|frame|[[Fight Club (novel)|I am Jack's awkward smirk.]]]]
[[Chuck Palahniuk]] is an American author born on February 21, 1962. He is known most for writing the novel ''[[Fight Club (novel)|Fight Club]]'', which the movie was based on, and has since then garnered a respectable following. He has a minimalist writing style that utilizes a limited vocabulary, short sentences, and is meant to mimic the way an average person would talk when relaying a story to someone else. His stories typically start [[How We Got Here|close to the end, with the protagonist recounting how he got there]], the events of which might also be told [[Anachronic Order|out of chronological order]] as well.▼
▲Chuck Palahniuk is an American author born on February 21, 1962. He is known most for writing the novel ''[[Fight Club (novel)|Fight Club]]'', which the movie was based on, and has since then garnered a respectable following. He has a minimalist writing style that utilizes a limited vocabulary, short sentences, and is meant to mimic the way an average person would talk when relaying a story to someone else. His stories typically start [[How We Got Here|close to the end, with the protagonist recounting how he got there]], the events of which might also be told [[Anachronic Order|out of chronological order]] as well.
His earlier works fall under the label Transgressional Fiction, while his later works contain more horror elements. Many people feel that his work is overly nihilistic and [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism|cynical]], and have labeled him a shock writer. Palahniuk does not believe that his work is in any way cynical or nihilistic, and has gone on record referring to himself as a Romantic—presumably the old [[Chivalric Romance]].
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* Fiction:
** ''[[Fight Club (novel)|Fight Club]]'' (1996)
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** ''[[Lullaby]]'' (2002)
** ''Diary'' (2003)
** ''[[Haunted
** ''[[Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey]]'' (2007)
** ''Snuff'' (2008)
** ''[[Pygmy]]'' (2009)
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** ''Haunted'' (TBA)
An adaptation of ''Survivor'' has been attempted, but [[Too Soon|due to its similarities with the events of September 11, 2001]], they decided to put the project on hold, and to this day it never came to fruition.
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* [[Anachronic Order]] - Common in many of his novels, but probably most prominent in ''[[Invisible Monsters (novel)|Invisible Monsters]]''.
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** The main character in ''[[Invisible Monsters (novel)|Invisible Monster's]]'' jaw injury.
* [[Brown Note]] - He ''wrote a real one.'' See the [[Brown Note]] page.
* [[Downer Ending]] - Virtually any book that doesn't have a bittersweet end. ''
** ''[[Pygmy]]'' has a happy ending. Well, sort of.
** Palahniuk's own interpretation of ''Survivor'''s ending is fairly positive.
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* [[Minimalism]]: His whole style is based around this.
* [[Money, Dear Boy]] - Palahniuk's explanation for the execrable [[Fight Club (novel)|Fight Club]] video game. To quote: "They can do whatever they want with my book as long as the fucking check clears."
* [[Nietzsche Wannabe]]
* [[Nightmare Face]] - The protagonist of ''[[Invisible Monsters (novel)|Invisible Monsters]]''. One look at this [https://web.archive.org/web/20120502184200/http://chuckpalahniuk.net/files/images/news/invisible-monsters-xander-lg.jpg fan-made image] (NSFW and very disturbing) should tell you why people are so damn afraid of her.
* [[No Name Given]] - The narrator of ''[[Fight Club (novel)|Fight Club]]''
** The protagonist of ''[[Invisible Monsters (novel)|InvisibleMonsters]]'' is unnamed until the very end of the book.
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