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Stories You Can't Unread
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Narrated by:
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Chuck Palahniuk
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Scott Sowers
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Rich Orlow
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T. Ryder Smith
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Luis Moreno
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Ken Marks
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By:
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Chuck Palahniuk
About this listen
For years Chuck Palahniuk has reserved his best storytelling for his readings, often choosing to read a new short story instead of whatever novel he is supposed to be promoting. Make Something Up compiles these previously unpublished tales for the very first time, plus the Byliner social media insta-classic "Phoenix" and Palahniuk's most notable pieces from Playboy.
©2015 Chuck Palahniuk (P)2015 Recorded BooksListeners also enjoyed...
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The uninitiated need not apply
- By Benjamin Johns on 07-10-04
By: Chuck Palahniuk
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Burnt Tongues
- By: Chuck Palahniuk - editor, Richard Thomas - editor, Dennis Widmyer - editor
- Narrated by: Full Cast
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
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This collection of transgressive stories has been compiled through a rigorous nomination and vetting process and hand-selected by Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, as the best of The Cult workshop. These stories run the gamut from horrific and fantastic to humorous and touching, but each leaves a lasting impression. Some may say even a scar.
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what the fuck?!
- By VANESSA C. on 09-22-23
By: Chuck Palahniuk - editor, and others
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Beautiful You
- By: Chuck Palahniuk
- Narrated by: Carol Monda
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
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From the author of Fight Club, the classic portrait of the damaged contemporary male psyche, now comes this novel about the apocalyptic marketing possibilities of female pleasure. Beautiful You is Palahniuk's much-anticipated satire of the emerging erotic thriller genre, a mash-up of mommy porn and chick lit à la Sex and the City, and fantasy lit à la Clan of the Cave Bear. Imagine if Ira Levin had a baby with Jean Auel.
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So weird
- By Sterling Scott on 03-15-15
By: Chuck Palahniuk
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Haunted
- By: Chuck Palahniuk
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Marc Cashman, Erik Davies, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
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Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: 23 of them, to be precise. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you'll ever encounter, sometimes all at once. They are told by people who have answered an ad headlined "Writers' Retreat: Abandon Your Life for Three Months", and who are led to believe that here they will leave behind all the distractions of "real life" that are keeping them from creating the masterpiece that is in them.
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True Horror -- Not for the faint of heart, stomach
- By Dominique on 05-24-05
By: Chuck Palahniuk
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Consider This
- Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different
- By: Chuck Palahniuk
- Narrated by: Chuck Palahniuk, Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
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In this spellbinding blend of memoir and insight, best-selling author Chuck Palahniuk shares stories and generous advice on what makes writing powerful and what makes for powerful writing. With advice grounded in years of careful study and a keenly observed life, Palahniuk combines practical advice and concrete examples from beloved classics, his own books, and a "kitchen-table MFA" culled from an evolving circle of beloved authors and artists, with anecdotes, postcards from the road, and much more.
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Poetic Justice
- By Dave Green on 01-20-20
By: Chuck Palahniuk
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Invisible Monsters
- By: Chuck Palahniuk
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
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She’s a fashion model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden freeway "accident" leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from being the beautiful center of attention to being an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists. Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from becoming a real woman, who will teach her that reinventing yourself means erasing your past and making up something better. And that salvation hides in the last places you’ll ever want to look.
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not sure what to expect,this wasn't it. but better
- By hman on 12-08-21
By: Chuck Palahniuk
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Tell-All
- By: Chuck Palahniuk
- Narrated by: Carol Monda
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
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For decades Hazie Coogan has tended to the outsized needs of Katherine “Miss Kathie” Kenton, veteran of multiple marriages, career comebacks, and cosmetic surgeries. But danger arrives with gentleman caller Webster Carlton Westward III, who worms his way into Miss Kathie’s heart - and boudoir. Soon, Hazie discovers that this bounder has already written a celebrity memoir foretelling Miss Kathie’s death in an upcoming musical extravaganza. As the body count mounts, Hazie must execute a plan to save Katherine Kenton for her fans and for posterity.
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not the most gripping CP book
- By andrew on 10-25-24
By: Chuck Palahniuk
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- Matthew S. Hill
- 01-08-17
I loved this collection of short stories!
All of the short stories in this collection are great, but there are a few that stand out huge. I think it will be different for everyone who reads it.
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- Matthew J. Copeland
- 06-21-21
Awkward & Riveting
So entertaining that you dread having to press pause. The stories are very clearly written by the same mind. Some of the stories are difficult to decipher exactly what is happening, but the phrasings & images conjured kept me engaged. The passage with only a semblance of story where the guy gets EVERY SINGLE saying incorrect is hilarious & brilliant. Thank you Mr. Fight Club for the trip
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- Deany R. Goode
- 10-04-15
Typical Palahniuk, which is never a bad thing
Romance and Cannibal are my favorites. Expedition is very quotable. Also the second story, forgot it's name, for semantic reasons. I love Palahniuk word puzzles.
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- shane
- 06-10-15
Chuck is a very good author but....
He is not a good narrator he has a really strange affectation that takes away from the story
It's hard to explain its a tempo thing
Great thought provoking ideas would have been better served by a good narrator unless he meant to deliver his material in this way , in that case I would say eh..
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- Frank_IFA
- 04-14-22
fantastic
loved almost every one of these stories. very well done, well written and narrated. hope more will follow
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- Lindsey
- 06-05-15
Fucking hilarious! Chuck is God!
Never thought I'd enjoy a collection of short stories more than one of Chuck's novel masterpieces! My favorite publication so far...
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- ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ
- 01-13-16
Short stories not for the faint of heart
If you could sum up Make Something Up in three words, what would they be?
Didn't anticipate that!
What did you like best about this story?
The stories are well-written, which makes even the slow ones at least slightly interesting.
Which scene was your favorite?
AED self-lobotomy
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Each of the stories give the readers something to think about, as they are a commentary on society in many ways.
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- brandon
- 01-28-17
hit and miss
chuck palahniuk is a really bad narrator, but that's just me. I did enjoy most of it.
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- Elenie Lea Smith
- 09-22-16
not sure why I listened to the whole thing.
hard to listen to. hoped it would get better. not so much. good listening if you try.
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- trever
- 04-07-21
not his best but entertaining
vulgar gross odd offensive but entertaining and weirdly funny. not for the fact of heart or for the politically correct!
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