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  • A good read, although not all of the stories are at the same level. The best ones manage to be entertaining, touching, and cruel at the same time (my favourite: "Frontiers", "The people can", "The lady").
    I liked Palahniuk's ironic style, and was surprised by his willingness to open totally to ... Continue

    A good read, although not all of the stories are at the same level. The best ones manage to be entertaining, touching, and cruel at the same time (my favourite: "Frontiers", "The people can", "The lady").
    I liked Palahniuk's ironic style, and was surprised by his willingness to open totally to the reader.

    

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• ― Ficie said on Mar 3, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  • 因為喜歡鬥陣俱樂部電影所以買了原作者Chuck Palanuik的書。Fight Club果然沒讓我失望，之後我看了一本叫Survivor的也還 不錯。Stranger Than Fiction是短篇文集，很玄的是，文章內容稀奇古怪，有時候停 下來想「不對，這都是真的...」「...不會吧？」腦子會停止運 轉一陣。其中一篇以第一人稱有言他父親與一位女子交往，沒想到女子 的前男友是個性暴力罪犯，甫出獄就把這女的連同他父親殺了，之後放 火燒房毀屍。這個事情竟然是真的發生在作者Chuck Palanuik的父親身上......

    本來看到激動處想要到處推薦這本書，不過第一篇就是大膽露骨的T ... Continue

    因為喜歡鬥陣俱樂部電影所以買了原作者Chuck Palanuik的書。Fight Club果然沒讓我失望，之後我看了一本叫Survivor的也 還不錯。Stranger Than Fiction是短篇文集，很玄的是，文章內容稀奇古怪，有時候 停下來想「不對，這都是真的...」「...不會吧？」腦子會停 止運轉一陣。其中一篇以第一人稱有言他父親與一位女子交往，沒想 到女子的前男友是個性暴力罪犯，甫出獄就把這女的連同他父親殺了 ，之後放火燒房毀屍。這個事情竟然是真的發生在作者Chuck Palanuik的父親身上......

    本來看到激動處想要到處推薦這本書，不過第一篇就是大膽露骨的T esty Festy（描述蒙大拿州的某個古裡古怪的性愛節慶），還是等人 們自行發掘好了。

    

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• ― Orcalee said on Jun 22, 2008 | Add your feedback

From the bestselling author of Fight Club and Diary, a collection of essays and journalistic pieces that prove that real life has imagination beaten cold in the strangeness and wonder departments

Chuck Palahniuk’s world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. The pieces that comprise Stranger Than Fiction, his first nonfiction collection, prove just how different, in ways both highly entertaining and deeply unsettling. Encounters with alternative culture heroes Marilyn Manson and Juliette Lewis; the peculiar wages of fame attendant on the big budget film production of the movie Fight Club; life as an assembly-line drive train installer by day, hospice volunteer driver by night; the really peculiar lives of submariners; the really violent world (and mangled ears) of college wrestlers; the underground world of iron-pumping anabolic steroid gobblers; the immensely upsetting circumstances of his father’s murder and the trial of his killer—each essay or vignette offers a unique facet of existence as lived in and/or observed by one of our most flagrantly daring and original literary talents.

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