Outside Reading #2: Chuck Palahniuk

For this outside reading I would like to discuss one of my favorite authors, Chuck Palahniuk. Palahniuk is most noted for his novels Fight Club, and Choke, which are now both major motion pictures. I want to talk about him because I am currently reading Survivor, another one of his novels. In the past I have read his novels Choke, and Rant. Palahniuk's writing style is very unique. It conveys a type of satire, and humor that is truly unique. In my experiences Palahniuk's novels generally tell the wild story of the perfect anti-hero as the main character in a very believable modern world. That is the absolutely unique thing, the main character seems so diabolicly evil, but you can always picture them in the real world. It is almost scary how real it can seem some times. An example of one of these anti-heros is Victor Manchini, the main character in Choke. During the story Victor begins to constatly ask himself, "What woud Jesus not do?" Now in Survivor the main character is telling suicidal people to go ahead and kill themselves. These are cold blooded characters, who make for some really great books.