Recent Posts Tagged With 'books'

• Douglas Coupland is the Bee’s Knees

  Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 16:31 in books, reviews, baby boomers, criticism, Generation X, Bees, chuck palahniuk, douglas coupland, millennials, opinions are like assholes, generation a

  Therefore, if bees were to become extinct as they do in Generation A (which is not out of the realm of real life possibility), Douglas Coupland would cease to exist. Then who would we go to for such insightful and witty satire? Find out more about C...

• Stick Your Finger In Vonnegut’s Asshole

  Posted on Saturday October 31st, 2009 at 16:17 in books, reviews, writing, criticism, kurt vonnegut, breakfast of champions, vonnegut's asshole, chuck palahniuk, wormhole, anus, opinions are like assholes, ass play

  You know you want to touch it …to read my review of Look At The Birdie, his new posthumous collection of prehumous stories. Or, if you are a prude, and don’t want to travel via anal wormhole, click HERE to be taken to ChuckPalahniuk.net t...

• I Fight Rawi Hage’s “Cockroach” To The Death

  Posted on Monday October 12th, 2009 at 11:04 in books, reviews, book reviews, immigrants, criticism, lebanon, led zepplin, cockroach, insects, chuck palahniuk, opinions are like assholes, immigrant song

  Time again for another anecdote laced book review over at Chuck Palahniuk dot net. Whether you love or hate immigrants, this is the book for you: A young immigrant travels to the land of ice and snow to whisper tales of gore on how he calmed the tid...

• Margaret Atwood Is My Favorite Canadian Lady Author

  Posted on Monday October 5th, 2009 at 23:03 in books, reviews, Speculative Fiction, criticism, margaret atwood, dystopia, chuck palahniuk, opinions are like assholes, oryx and crake, the year of the flood

  New review up at ChuckPalahniuk.net Four years ago, my girlfriend lent me Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake on our very first date. I was hesitant to accept, not only because that locked me into seeing her again, but because other than Geek Lov...

• Grok the Groin-Grabbing Gravity of James Ellroy’s “Blood’s A Rover”

  Posted on Friday September 18th, 2009 at 13:13 in books, reviews, criticism, james ellroy, the cult, groin injuries, american tabloid, the cold six thousand, blood's a rover, chuckpalahniuk.net, la quartet, red goddess joan

  From my review of Blood’s A Rover. It’s been eight long years since The Cold Six Thousand bludgeoned the face of the literary landscape, and the concluding volume of the Underworld USA Trilogy is finally here. Let me preface my review by say...

• Stitches by David Small

  Posted on Tuesday September 8th, 2009 at 16:41 in books, reviews, comics, Cancer, graphic novels, stitches, criticism, memoirs, chuck palahniuk, the cult, opinions are like assholes, david small

  It’s that time again. I’ve got a new book review up at ChuckPalahniuk.net. David Small’s graphic memoir of childhood horrors, Stitches. If you think you had it bad, you better check this one out before you complain. STITCHES REVIEW ...

• Review Roundup Rodeo

  Posted on Thursday August 27th, 2009 at 11:56 in art, books, reviews, Film, criticism, vampires, joe r. lansdale, chuck palahniuk, god is not great, thomas pynchon, bronson, vincent cassel

  Lazy post alert! Here is a handy roundup of all my recent review activity scattered around the interweb. BOOK REVIEWS @ ChuckPalahniuk.net Leather Maiden by Joe R. Lansdale Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist The Compleat Motherfucker by J...

• Joe R. Lansdale’s Leather Maiden

  Posted on Wednesday August 26th, 2009 at 14:48 in books, reviews, criticism, twin peaks, joe r. lansdale, chuck palahniuk, opinions are like assholes, his girl friday, a writer's cult, leather maiden

  New book review up @ ChuckPalahniuk.net. Cult author Joe R. Lansdale’s Leather Maiden. A small town tale of infidelity, blackmail, and skinning people alive. For fans of Twin Peaks and His Girl Friday. LEATHER MAIDEN REVIEW ...

• “Let The Right One In” Review

  Posted on Wednesday August 19th, 2009 at 12:12 in sweden, books, Film, criticism, vampires, morrissey, chuck palahniuk, opinions are like assholes, tomas alfredson, john ajvide lindqvist, let the right one slip in

  Freshly birthed and mewling over @ the Cult. Morrissey is the proud papa. Help mop up the afterbirth. LET THE RIGHT ONE IN ...

• The Compleat Motherfucker

  Posted on Friday August 7th, 2009 at 11:31 in books, criticism, Etymology, chuck palahniuk, the cult, feral house, adam parfrey, opinions are like assholes, fartology, jim dawson, the compleat motherfucker

  My review of the history of the mother of all dirty words up now @ The Motherfuckin’ Cult. ...

• The Coen Brothers Come Out of the Jew Closet

  Posted on Friday July 31st, 2009 at 11:52 in books, Film, Canada, jews, toronto film festival, michael chabon, coen brothers, the yiddish policemen's union, david cronenberg, don lafontaine, a serious man, mr. trailer voice

  Between this and their upcoming Yiddish Policemen adaptation, the Co Bros are really getting their Heeb on.  This isn’t your typical give-everything-away trailer narrated by Don LaFontaine- In a land overrun by Jews- this is a skillful constru...

• Thomas Pynchon Loved This Book!

  Posted on Wednesday July 29th, 2009 at 13:42 in books, entertainment, television, criticism, opi, the simpson's, chuck palahniuk, the cult, the 60's, thomas pynchon, dirty hippies, opinions are like assholes

  Time to get all postmodern on dat azz. I’ve got a new review of Pynchon’s hippie genre goolash, Inherent Vice, over @ The Cult. Read it and weep. For the sixties. Inherent Vice. I’d like to think Pynchon would enjoy this blog, if he...

• Send In The Muthafuckin’ Clowns

  Posted on Monday July 20th, 2009 at 13:40 in books, criticism, clowns, chuck palahniuk, the cult, australian literature, robert louis stevenson, coulrophobia, opinions are like assholes, will elliot, pilo family circus

  Dr. Jekyll here, with another post of the literary variety. I’ve got a new book review up at The Cult. It is an appropriately schizophrenic tale of murderous clowns entitled- THE PILO FAMILY CIRCUS Check it out. ...

• Who Made Who?

  Posted on Monday July 6th, 2009 at 11:21 in religion, books, christopher hitchens, chuck palahniuk, god is not great, opinions are like assholes, canadians hate god, end of humanity

  I know there has been a general lack of offensiveness around here as of late, what with my forays into respectable “journalism,” but how about some good old fashioned controversy? One of the oldest and most enduring, to be precise- the go...

• Can’t See! I Can’t Fucking See!

  Posted on Tuesday June 30th, 2009 at 17:48 in books, reviews, Film, nobel prize, chuck palahniuk, jose saramago, opthalmalogy

  The respectibility continues! Chuckpalahniuk.net has a new review section, which I will be contributing to. My inaugural review is up, Nobel laureate Jose Saramago’s Blindness. Check it out. BLINDNESS REVIEW Also, the post title comes from a re...

• Synopsis for “Saint Heretic”, New Novel by Craig Clevenger

  Posted on Thursday February 5th, 2009 at 14:33 in travel, books, writing, true crime, madonna, denzel washington, serial killers, chuck palahniuk, james joyce, bill cosby, the velvet, craig clevenger

  It’s time for one of my serious posts, so no complaining.  Over at The Velvet they have posted a synopsis for the forthcoming novel by Craig Clevenger, entitled Saint Heretic. It’s buried in the forum, so I’ve dutifully ganked it a...

• Bill Cosby No Longer Wants To Come On People…

  Posted on Wednesday February 4th, 2009 at 15:30 in books, comedy, television, moose knuckle, bill cosby, come on people, celebrity shit heads, jello pudding, old black comedians don't know when to shut the hell up

  …and I’d like to think THIS POST had something to do with it. Either that or he finally got himself an editor. Because let’s be honest, Bill Cosby is completely asexual and benign, right? WRONG! Bill Cosby is a sexual being, just li...