Recent Posts Tagged With 'reviews'

• 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...

• Encapsulated Music Reviews: The Recent and the Decent

  Posted on Thursday September 10th, 2009 at 09:37 in metal, music, reviews, criticism, Radiohead, mariachi, the mars volta, pedro the lion, protest the hero, baroness, the bronx, opinions are like assholes

  Let me preface this by saying, DAMN YOU WORDPRESS AND YOUR SHITTY FORMATTING ISSUES!!! Radiohead – Harry Patch (In Memory Of)/These Are My Twisted Words This is strictly B-side material, as far as Radiohead goes, so I’m glad these songs...

• 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 ...

• 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...