#Haunted chuck palahniuk swimming pool series

It was made into a Brad Pitt movie, which must have really hurt, but Palahniuk recovered nicely, and was soon furthering his reputation with a series of fragrant odes to the milk of human kindness: 'Survivor,' in which a man dictates his life story into the black box recorder of a plummeting 747 'Choke,' about a man who pretends to choke in restaurants and then emotionally blackmails those who attempt to save him and 'Lullaby,' which gently broached the topic of infant genocide. Palahniuk first came to light with 'Fight Club' (1996), the story of a group of young men who seek to escape the numbing conformity of their 9-to-5 jobs by being beaten to a bloody pulp. Opinion is still divided as to whether his oeuvre amounts to a tenacious attempt at reinventing the Gothic tradition for the 21st century, or a sustained, career-long attempt to put you off your lunch. When a story from Chuck Palahniuk's new book was serialized in The Guardian of London, it was flagged on the cover as 'the most gruesome short story ever published,' a come-on that tells you all you need to know about the allure of Palahniuk's work, which is best thought of as a close literary relative of NBC's 'Fear Factor,' in which contestants compete to see who can best retain their composure while being deluged with buckets of bugs.

Haunted chuck palahniuk swimming pool