Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories (Unabridged)
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Chuck Palahniuk's world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. These pieces from
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 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.
Customer Reviews
"Unabridged Selections"
Starnge but good. Such is Chuck Palahniuk. Sometimes it's tough to see where he's going with this one but it was interesting in it's own right.
The only major problem I had was the term "Unabriged Selections". Unabridged is Unabridged and this means that it includes the entire book. I didn't pay 15 dollars to get only half of this book and was not pleased when the introduction called it such. Wow do I feel ripped off.
Best for students of writing/journalism.
I found the book an interesting exercise in the writerly art of observation and description. Other than that, it’s instantly forgettable and pointless. On the plus side - convenient break between each vignette make it an ideal bit of fluff to listen to in short spurts. Good for plane trips, or something to make you sleepy at bedtime.
great audiobook, but READ what you're buying...
this is a great audiobook!
Lots of folks are griping (in reviews here) that this isn't the complete book. Well, that's exactly what "selections" means in the title: "Unabridged Selections."
Stories were chosen from the original to appear in the audiobook. These individual stories are, in fact, unabridged. It's just that the total # of stories in the audiobook is < the original paper book. What you do hear, though, is the entirety of each selection. Unabridged selections.
buy it.