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A review by montigneyrules
Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread by Chuck Palahniuk
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#readingchallenge2020 (my book that begins with an M)
Painful feeling to rate Chuck so low, however I felt so strangely disconnected from the characters while reading each story.
Each story definitely had they typical Chuck Shock & Awe factor. I didn’t mind the weird, gross, mindfuck content presented within each tale, but there was something about the overall characters, and their edginess, that didn’t work for me. Maybe it felt too gimmicky, too forced, too large of an attempt to be strange.
Even stories where I enjoyed the ‘theme’, such as the suicidal teens, or the bad Christmas gifts, I still felt disappointed by the delivery. The tales lacked the deep impactful quotes that draw me to his novels, or the deep bizarre feelings. It felt like more..’being gross to be gross’
Painful feeling to rate Chuck so low, however I felt so strangely disconnected from the characters while reading each story.
Each story definitely had they typical Chuck Shock & Awe factor. I didn’t mind the weird, gross, mindfuck content presented within each tale, but there was something about the overall characters, and their edginess, that didn’t work for me. Maybe it felt too gimmicky, too forced, too large of an attempt to be strange.
Even stories where I enjoyed the ‘theme’, such as the suicidal teens, or the bad Christmas gifts, I still felt disappointed by the delivery. The tales lacked the deep impactful quotes that draw me to his novels, or the deep bizarre feelings. It felt like more..’being gross to be gross’