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Originally Posted by walkdontwalk
RANT by Chuck Palahniuk.
Entire story is told in the form of an oral history gathered from the people related to the protagonist.
As far as subversive mind-fuck reads go, I'll rate this as one of my favourite! It's only the second of Palahniuk's books that I've read, but it betters Fight Club in some respects, simply because it attempts much more...
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Good call; Rant, Choke, Fight Club, and Diary are all solid Palahniuk novels. If you have the stomach, read Haunted; it was the first time in my life reading a story made me almost vomit.
Just reread Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland. It tells the story of four people affected by a school tragedy. It is excellent.
I'm in the middle of my favorite novel ever written ever, as well as my second favorite collection of short storys: High Fidelity by Nick Hornby and The Informers by Brett Easton Ellis respectively.
High Fidelity is to 20 something men who are the 90's breed of introspective that Catcher In The Rye was to 16-20 somethings who were of the same ilk. It is the story of twenty something Rob's backlash in response to his break up with Laura. He rediscovers his life by re-examining the break ups that changed his life.