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[[Chuck Palahniuk]] is an American author born on February 21, 1962. He is known most for writing the novel ''[[Fight Club (
▲Chuck Palahniuk is an American author born on February 21, 1962. He is known most for writing the novel ''[[Fight Club (Literature)|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 (
** ''[[Survivor (
** ''[[Invisible Monsters (
** ''[[Choke]]'' (2001)
** ''[[Lullaby]]'' (2002)
** ''Diary'' (2003)
** ''[[Haunted
** ''[[Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey]]'' (2007)
** ''Snuff'' (2008)
** ''[[Pygmy]]'' (2009)
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** ''You Do Not Talk About Fight Club: I am Jack's Completely Unauthorized Essay Collection'' (2008) (introduction)
* Film:
** ''[[Fight Club (
** ''Choke'' (2008)
** ''Invisible Monsters'' (2011)
** ''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 (
* [[Anti-Hero]]
* [[Arc Words]] - When he uses them, he refers to them as "choruses".
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* [[Author Filibuster]]
* [[Author Appeal]] - Quite possibly the color Cornflower Blue.
** And snarky protagonists. And graphic and/or [[Squick
* [[Bittersweet Ending]] - ''[[Choke]]'' and ''[[Invisible Monsters (
** Really, ''Snuff'' might count too. It just might.
* [[Black Humor]]
* [[Body Horror]] - "One stupid mistake, and now he'll never be a lawyer."
** The main character in ''[[Invisible Monsters (
* [[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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** But not ''[[Pygmy]]''.
* [[Ho Yay]]: Male-Male friendships are often center stage, and in several works there's a level of sexual tension that's very hard to debate. {{spoiler|Chalk it up to the fact that until fairly recently Palahniuk was not publicly out. He is now out, but does not tend to publicly discuss his sexuality, possibly to avoid making it an issue with his fanbase.}}
* [[How We Got Here]] - ''[[Fight Club (
* [[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 (
* [[No Name Given]] - The narrator of ''[[Fight Club (
** The protagonist of ''[[Invisible Monsters (
* [[One Word Title]] - Most of his novels.
* [[Parallel Porn Titles]] - ''Snuff'' includes a '''hurricane''' of them.
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** His upcoming novel ''Damned'' was written to deal with his mother's death, too.
* [[Ripped from the Headlines]]: He's quite fond of basing parts of his novels on anecdotes he's heard or read about. Even "Guts", probably his single most disturbing piece of writing, was based on three true stories.
* [[Shout
* [[Shown Their Work]]: The research he carries out for his novels is thorough, to say the least. A friend of his recounted an incidence in which Palahniuk read an entire book on serial killers, the information from which ended up being used on ''one page'' of a novel he was working on.
* [[Ubermensch]]
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