Chuck Palahniuk an Icon

         Hero, icon, role model, favorite everyone has one and no one can escape it.

Some are long gone from ancient wars, some are great philosophers of simpler times, some are big time movie stars on every billboard and some are ordinary writers. Everyone has a favorite whether it be fiction, nonfiction, fantasy, romance, anthologies there is that author that you swear to every fiber of your being that if that author wrote a phone book you would read it just because they wrote it and to see what little dissertations they added, my author, the author that I would read if he wrote a phone book, is Chuck Palahniuk.

          Palahniuk is the author of so many great stories all of whom are now or will be motion pictures, titles like Fight Club, Choke, Haunted, Rant, Survivor, Pygmy and many many more....

Chuck Palahniuk is an American novelist from Portland, Oregon, born in February in 1962. He began his career as a Freelance Journalist followed by other jobs he was not thrilled with then he began his career as an American transgressional fiction writer after a time in his life that put great strain on his life as well as the lives of his family and friends. After joining group therapy sessions he decided to join a writing workshop where he got the premise and wrote the critically acclaimed novel turned film Fight Club. During that time he was a member of a Cacophany Group which he says was the basis for Project Mayhem in Fight Club. The book, Fight Club, went on to reach a cult following as did the rest of his following works, many of which have gone on to win or got nominated for awards such as the:Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award (Fight Club), Oregon Book Award for Best Novel (Fight Club),Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award (Lullaby).
He was later was nominated for the Oregon Book Award for Best Novel for Survivor and for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel for Lullaby in 2002 and Haunted in 2005.

               But, it is not, I will say, his success that got him a cult following, nor is it his amazing ideas for plot it is his style of writing. He does not use overwhelming words that makes the readers keep a dictionary by them, a medical journal is perhaps needed, he does not use so much detail that you forget what you’re reading i.e. Stephen King, no, he uses a minimalistic form of writing that allows the writer to cut out and break down scenes that gives it a more artistic yet almost poetic look, it is his simplicity and form of narration that makes him great and idealistic, as a writer and I would like to say that I can manipulate and embrace his style and form and make it my own but alas I cannot there are some things that we mere beginners can only dream of embellishing.