Hello everyone! One of Mr. Palahniuk's essays was featured on Reddit this morning and it was so informative that I decided to poke around in the site a bit. It's fantastic! I can't wait to dig in and get started. The sticky led me to believe introductions were in order so here I am. I've been looking for a site that will help me grow as a writer as all the feedback I get from family and friends is woefully tainted with bias. I'm hoping to get brutally honest opinions from you lovely individuals so if you see me around... be honest, be blunt, be ruthless.
Welcome.
Mind the stickies.
Welcome. It was an excellent essay. Most of his are.
Hello!
Stickies are part of the landscape. Welcome!
Your intro title could be taken in a very sticky way, itself, so with that in mind...
Welcum!
Welcome to the site! Hopefully you're one of those well-behaved, polite redditors ;)
welcome. what of Palahniuk have you read? do you have a favorite? what kind of stuff do you write? I have a column here, Storyville, that may be of interest to you.
Welcome! I'm sure I'll see you in the workshop--I can't resist the horror entries. :)
Richard forgave you as soon as you mentioned reading Stephen King.
@ivy - jack is correct. i'm as big a King fan as I am a Palahniuk fan. i've read all of King's books, have a big collection of his work. i used to love Koontz, but have pretty much given up on him. as for CP, i'd start with CHOKE or SURVIVOR, both are excellent. i loved FC the movie, too. one of the few times i think the film and book were BOTH excellent. (i'd add THE SHINING to that list, even though King hated the film). i'm also a big fan of Ketchum, Straub, Barker and BEE's AMERICAN PSYCHO. i think you've found a new home.
I do still like the ODD THOMAS series.
I really liked Odd Thomas. The rest of the series is on my to read list. I have a bunch of Dean Koontz books that I brought for a dollar, but I haven't gotten around to reading them.
Did you guys read Joyride? I kind of liked it. I also, surprise, have read Koontz and King. It's not the kind of writing I do, but they are both great storytellers. Koontz has one coming this fall that could be for a broader readership. Looking forward to it.
Always been a huge King fan, but honestly have only read one Koontz book and that was in my dark days. I can barely remember the story of it, and definitely not the title. I was in an institution and heavily medicated, so who knows, it may have been a phone book.
Anyway... :)
Dean Koontz writes phonebooks? Wow, that guy really is productive.
Seriously, though, it was something to do with a cemetery or crematorium (I think) and a guy who couldn't go out in the daylight (sort of like Powder). That's pretty much all I remember. So, between bad associations and not being overly impressed with his writing (so shoot me) I just haven't ever read anything else of Koontz's.
Fear Nothing, that's what it was!!!
Thank you, Ivy, you've already earned your place here thanks to that helpful reminder. When I stop keeping things from falling apart, I'll be sure to kill you last. The semi-red hair gave you a low spot on the list to begin with, but this just really put you at the end. Way to go!
Now the question is where the hell did I get crematorium from??? Also, where the hell is the "welcome" badge all new victims of the Lit receive upon filing their Introduction thread? Whoever's responsibility that is is slacking, and working their way up the list...
i loved his older books, Whispers and Watchers and Phantoms.
have you read any Jack Ketchum, Ivy? You MUST. THE GIRL NEXT DOOR, wow.
Ketchum is hard core. He does not shy away from violence. He's an acquired taste, but no worse than Clive Barker's BOOKS OF BLOOD or BEEs AMERICAN PSYCHO. I took a class with him, and it was great. He's a very nice guy.
Welcome Ivy!
The thing about a lot of Ketchum's stuff is that it convinces you that it very well could happen (or did happen), which makes it all the more horrifying.
I think Ketchum's work is a little thin. Aside from the violence, I don't know that I'd classify Ketchum as a very effective writer. OFF-SEASON is just atrocious, unless you're a Laymon fan, in which case it's probably right up your alley. I would recommend Joe Lansdale for a more 'full-service' writer.
Then again, I could be wrong. I was, once: it was July 17th, 1987.
Welcome to LitReactor.
I'm just glad to see another local around here. Welcome!
I'm hoping to get brutally honest opinions from you
lovelyindividuals so if you see me around... be honest, be blunt, be ruthless.
The latter three adjectives describe this group more accuratley than the first.
Not true. We're all lovely. ;)
Welcome and enjoy.
I'm hoping to get brutally honest opinions from you lovely individuals so if you see me around... be honest, be blunt, be ruthless.
You will get what you wanted, but you might not want what you get.
Welcome Ivy. I credit Chuck with being my first true literary influence. It was after reading his early work about a decade ago that I decided to pursue writing. Fight Club is a favorite of course, although I think his true first novel, Invisible Monsters, might edge it out.