bookfart: I write like...

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

I write like...

I write like
Chuck Palahniuk

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This has been passing around the LiveJournals, so I thought I'd give it a try. I used the first chapter of my BIP. Like a WIP, but with a book.

Honestly, I don't think I've read that much Palahniuk. I mean, I stole Q's copy of Fight Club, and I have Haunted lying around here someplace. I liked both, but not enough to consider myself a fan. A fan lite? Or maybe this means I'm his arch-nemesis.

This is what you get if you Google "Chuck Palahniuk" and "arch-nemesis."

Who do you write like?

UPDATE: In an I-should-have-seen-it-coming twist, this post is also written like Palahniuk.

5 comments:

burninglikeiceTuesday, July 13, 2010
You have my copy of Fight Club? I didn't even know it was missing.

I've heard good things about Choke. I've only seen the movie, but if Fight Club is an example, Palahniuk's books are way better than the film adaptations.
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burninglikeiceTuesday, July 13, 2010
P.S. I apparently write like Palahniuk, as well. Which is funny considering our vastly different writing styles.

Maybe I shouldn't have used a sample of your writing?
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thepopeofbeersTuesday, July 13, 2010
Or maybe we're the same person!

AHHH TWILIGHT ZONE TWIST
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thepopeofbeersTuesday, July 13, 2010
Also, the only thing the book version of Fight Club was missing was Brad Pitt and his 90's sexiness.
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burninglikeiceThursday, July 15, 2010
You could always paste a picture of Brad Pitt into the book at random intervals.
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About the Book

There are people with abilities they shouldn't have. Abilities that should not be possible. A man who can transform into a tiger, apple core eyes, and orange, black stripes, burning. A woman with metal fingers instead of flesh, scalpel-like. They are called Caps.

Kallie is a Cap. She's stronger than anyone she's ever known, and she aches to be the hero she could be. When the man who maimed her years ago is broken out of his padded cell, she knows he will find her again. She can regenerate, but John Doe plucked the fingers from her hand and swallowed each one. He took too much. She can already feel the phantom crawl of his tongue, and she will kill him before he tastes her for the last time.

Danny's the reason John Doe is free, and he did it because his boyfriend, Marcus, told him to. He does whatever Marcus tells him to because Marcus can see the future as well as he can the present, and right now his apple core eyes are fixed on the source of their abilities. Convinced the answer's in their blood, Marcus pegs John Doe as just the Cap to section and study. His abilities will keep his blood flowing long after his veins should have dried.

During the break out, Marcus is severely wounded, John Doe escapes, and Danny finds himself shouldering a plan he doesn't even understand. He still trusts Marcus, though, if nothing else, and knows of someone they could bleed instead. Someone Danny's only fought once before. She could regenerate like John Doe. He downs another vodka shot and tries to remember her name. And then it comes to him:

Kallie.