[Stu]

Tsk. Chuck Palahniuk is terrific. The whole anarchist, nihlist tone of his books is just the way he writes. I doubt he sits down with pen and paper and thinks 'right ... how can I be edgy'?

I find him consistently entertaining. Fight Club is a landmark book and the likes of Survivor and Snuff are downright hillarious. He's an easy target for people to go all intellectual and point out flaws and raping of themes in his writting and oh I'm so fabulous for realizing these things in my literary analysis but in terms of actually just pure undiluted enjoyment? I don't think of read a bad one. The includes Choke [although it is far from his best work].

I am of course a fanboy, also. That helps.