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[Mitchum]

http://www.readatwork.com/


Check it!

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

http://www.readatwork.com/


Check it!

That is almost how Vernon God Little should be read by everyone.

 

[Lillian]

That is almost how Vernon God Little should be read by everyone.

No one should ever read Vernon God Little, its the only way my reading it was worth while, as a sacrfice for everyone, so no one else will ever have to read it.

 

[Goff]

No one should ever read Vernon God Little, its the only way my reading it was worth while, as a sacrfice for everyone, so no one else will ever have to read it.

One of the best first novels ever written.

In fact, THE best first novel I've ever read.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

One of the best first novels ever written.

In fact, THE best first novel I've ever read.

Wonderful book.


What an odd website though.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

vernon god little is overrated trash. his follow up is even worse. dbc pierre disguises the fact that he can't write by adopting these outlandish first person narratives and self consciously bizzare storylines. he's a sham. i read kafka's metamorphasis in work. it's fucking deadly.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

vernon god little is overrated trash. his follow up is even worse. dbc pierre disguises the fact that he can't write by adopting these outlandish first person narratives and self consciously bizzare storylines. he's a sham. i read kafka's metamorphasis in work. it's fucking deadly.

Hoh! Stay away from Chuck Palahniuk then.

Ludmila's Broken English was an interesting but uneven affair.
Political satire is hard to pull off.

 

[Gambra]

That is the best designed site I think I've ever seen. Anyone know how they do it? Is it just interactive flash?

 

[IFF]

i thought vernon god little was excellent read. ludmilla's broken english wasn't bad but neither was it good.

 

[frona]

Ack! Weird site! Emily Dickinson is a load of BS.

 

[Dromed]

I LOVE Chuck Palahniuk. Invisible Monsters is a modern day Valley of The Dolls...it's trashy and nasty and hilariously funny.. [ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Monsters[/ame]
Choke ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choke_(novel)) is also deadly.

Read some background on his novel 'Lullaby'...

In 1999, Fred Palahniuk, Chuck's father, began dating an Idaho woman named Donna Fontaine. Donna had recently put her ex-boyfriend, Dale Shackleford, in prison for sexual abuse, and Shackleford had vowed to kill Fontaine as soon as he was released from prison. After his release, Shackleford followed Fred Palahniuk and Fontaine home from a date to her apartment in Kendrick, Idaho. After shooting Fred Palahniuk in the abdomen and Fontaine in the back of the neck, Shackleford left them to die, though he allegedly returned to the scene multiple times to attempt to start a fire large enough to destroy the evidence.
After Shackleford's arrest, Chuck Palahniuk was asked to be part of the decision as to whether or not Shackleford would receive the death sentence. Palahniuk has worked in a hospital and as a crime reporter, but nevertheless struggled with where he stood on capital punishment. Over the next few months, he began working on Lullaby. According to him, it was a way to cope with the decision he had to make regarding Shackleford's death. In the spring of 2001, Shackleford was found guilty for two counts of murder in the first degree. A month after Palahniuk finished Lullaby, Shackleford was sentenced to death. Palahniuk wrote the Court and asked to witness the execution.