![]() ![]() He marries a realtor called Gazelle then at Christmas Eleanor chews a nativity figure of Baby Jesus and Gazelle then buys a large Christmas tree. "Eleanor" - Written with many malapropisms, Randy hates trees and moves from Oregon to California with his pit bull called Eleanor. ![]() His son recalls to him many of his jokes but as death approaches his father no longer laughs. "Knock Knock" (Dec 2010 of Playboy ) - The father has always told off-colour jokes, but he now suffers from terminal prostate cancer.The same problems that made Beautiful You such a flawed work are still apparent in this collection, but Make Something Up is a much more relaxed, playful and better book." Chuck Palahniuk is a different writer set free from the constrictions of writing a 'straight' novel. Mark Diston in The Register writes that "overall this collection is amusing, insightful and wickedly funny.I would love to read his next 'Knock-Knock', but not at the risk of reading his next 'Torcher'." He is an enfant terrible in desperate need of adult supervision, and one wishes Palahniuk's editors would convince him not to publish his flimsiest tantrums. It's a performance that can be exhilarating when graceful, but simply painful when it is not. Sandra Newman in The Guardian has many reservations: "In Palahniuk, we have a writer at the height of his powers, but who refuses to use those powers for good, and sometimes refuses to use them at all who would rather soak his powers in urine, then eat them and vomit them into your lap. ![]()
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