Stranger than Fiction

I do enjoy Chuck Palahniuk's fiction and was interested to see what he could bring non-fiction wise... and my verdict is that he should very much stick to what he is great at - fiction! My main take, out of this part documentary part essay, is the horrific story that his father was killed by a white......more

*Official rating is 3.5, but always round up! Collections of short works are tricky things to review. I say this almost every bloody time I review one. The reason being that each story or article or piece is inevitably pitted against one another in terms of likeability, and by a law of averages certa......more

You will like this book if you are easily amazed by the things your fellow humans do for fun or to make a living, or to survive or to fend off loneliness and despair' if you are not surprised but what we do to light the flickering light of "I am special". You will like this book if you prefer unders......more

Las cuatro primeras líneas de la introducción constituyen la columna vertebral de los artículos y crónicas que componen “Error humano”: “todos mis libros tratan de una persona solitaria que busca alguna forma de conectar con los demás”. Con esta declaración, Palahniuk abre una serie de textos que se......more

-Palahniadas varias pero interesantes por diferentes razones.- Género. Ensayo (en realidad no, o no solamente, pero hay que clasificarlo en el blog en alguna categoría). Lo que nos cuenta. El libro Error humano (publicación original: Stranger Than Fiction, 2004) recopila una serie de crónicas, extraña......more