Transcript Chuck Palahniuk Fantasmas

Chuck Palahniuk
Fantasmas
Title: Fantasmas
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
Format: Paperback
Language: Spanish
Pages: 448
Publisher: , 0
ISBN: 0307391264
Format: PDF / Kindle / ePub
Size: 9.7 MB
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Description
- Una libro de terror acerca del precio de la fama.
Fantasmas está formado por una veintena de historias terroríficas, todas ellas unidas por un
hilo conductor que arranca en una colonia de escritores. Un puñado de escritores —o aspirantes
a escritores-, acuden, tras leer un anuncio en la prensa, a un retiro para artistas, donde se
supone que darán rienda suelta a su imaginación, inmersos en un escenario de paz y creación,
y escribirán la obra maestra que llevan dentro. No obstante, la colonia de escritores resulta ser
un lugar aislado del mundo, donde la comida, la electricidad y los suministros básicos son más
bien escasos. En estas condiciones precarias los protagonistas comenzarán a escribir historias
bizarras y terroríficas, lo cual a la vez, les convierte en héroes de una especie de Reality show.
Fantasmas es al mismo tiempo una sátira sobre los programas de televisión conocidos como
Reality , y un homenaje a los clásicos del género de terror: Los cuentos de Canterbury o
Frankenstein, en esta ocasión se retrata a un grupo de personas que quieren contar sus
historias, dar salida a su creatividad, a cualquier coste.
Insightful reviews
Marvin: Warning: The cover of this edition glows in the dark. Do not place on your bed stand
unless you want to have a heart attack. I speak from experience.
There are 21 short stories in Haunted. Some of them are amazing such as the notorious "Guts".
Others are so-so. A couple of them are just boring. All of them are written to shock yet the
brevity of the tales keeps both writer and reader focused. If this was a short story collection, I
would rate it a strong three stars.
Unfortunately it is not. Palahniuk has fashioned this book into a novel. One clearly modeled
after The Tales of The Decameron except as written by a 21th century Marquis De Sade. The
19 protagonists are revealed from the beginning as vicious and stupid and we are never given a
reason to care about them. Page after page they make insane and idiotic decisions that have no
basis in any logic or reality and no purpose but to shock. Some may say that is the point, the
author has created a bizarre and surreal horror setting as an analogy. That's fine but what is the
author saying? My conclusion is absolutely nothing. Palahnuik's cynicism is so over the top it
destroys any attempt at meaning.
Perhaps I don't get "it". Yet anyone who perused my book list knows I'm not easily offended.
This is the third book by this author I've read. The only reason I read three is because Pahalnuik
is one hell of a writer at least technically. And from the short stories in this book I know he can
pack a punch when he wants to. But this will probably the last Palahnuik book I will subject
myself to.
Rachel: This is chuck's worst work. It pains me to say that, but its just true. a group of would-be
writers on a writer's retreat each is given the chance to tell a story. The stories are all basically
gross for the sake of being gross with little to no redeeming value.
One infamous story involving a pool was so hard to get through I had to take 3 breaks. Its so
descriptive and disgusting I had to take a breather for fear of vomiting (i am not alone in this, he
read this particular story at signings and people would have to leave the room, some even threw
up right there)
I guess if you judge a story's value by how much of a physical response it can incite, then this is
Grade A material. Otherwise I would say to avoid this one until you have read a good amount of
his earlier work so as not to taint your judgement.
Kelly (and the Book Boar): Find all of my reviews at: http://52bookminimum.blogspot.com/
4.5 Stars
WRITER’S RETREAT:
ABANDON YOUR LIFE FOR THREE MONTHS.
Just disappear. Leave behind everything that keeps you from creating your masterpiece.
Your job and family and home, all those obligations and distractions – put them on hold
for three months. Live with like-minded people in a setting that supports total immersion
in your work. Food and lodging included free for those who qualify. Gamble a small
fraction of your life on the chance to create a new future as a professional poet, novelist,
screenwriter. Before it’s too late, live the life you dream about. Spaces very limited.
A group of strangers responds to this advertisement and find themselves locked away – literally.
With no way out and a cast of characters who aim to make their own personal experience worse
than anyone else’s, the group soon finds themselves with no heat, little electricity and, let’s
say, only unconventional food sources.
A novel woven together with short stories and “poems” – a reader like me who generally
doesn’t appreciate the short story gets the best of both worlds. This is Palahniuk at his best.
Worst???? I don’t even fucking know anymore. God he’s twisted. And awesome. And barfinducing.
Whoops, wrong Barf.
Palahniuk immediately goes off the rails with the story “Guts”.
If you can make it through that tale, you’ll be able make it through the rest of the book – but not
without asking yourself the question
If you’re extra lucky, you’ll find yourself being asked by your family members “why do you
have that horrified look on your face?” and get a chance to share your experiences with the
whole gang . . .
Family bonding at its best.
Oh Chuck, you sick bastard. When you’re on – you are ON, and I am left speechless.
Recommended to????? If I want a clear conscience the answer should be ABSOLUTELY NO
ONE, but in reality???? EVERYONE.
Beth: Onstage, rather than a spotlight, a film fragmentI had no expectancies while i began to
learn this book, good yeah I did I anticipated to not love it and so much of all I anticipated to not
"get" it. it has been on my to learn record for an age now and i have continuously positioned it
off looking ahead to it to be a type of cool books that each one your pals learn and you are
feeling dumb since it simply is going correct over your head. And prior to i began I did scroll via
a number of studies right here on Goodreads and observed that it had loads of excellent studies
and alot of very bad. This leads me to believe that this e-book is like Marmite, you both like it
otherwise you hate it.Me? I enjoyed it and suppose i'll have learn a ways to a lot into it instead
of have it pass over my head. this e-book jogs my memory of a warped model of 1984 by way of
George Orwell with the pleasant ghost being the massive brother that watches those humans
he is locked up until eventually they percentage their stories.The tales themselves (most off the
time) are thus far fetched and gore infested that you're feeling your self feeling in poor health or
spontaneously giggling out loud, carrot cake within the butt to those who have every thing but
decide to stay with nothing.Although this ebook is a gore dinner party and an entire mindfuck i
couldn't support pertaining to many of the components and references to a illustration of actual
lifestyles and that i think Chuck Palahniuk dependent it at the music inn CaliforniaYou can try
out every time you likebut you could by no means leavewhere the controllers within the booklet
characterize the various worlds present events, war, meant executive regulate and so forth (this
is have been i'll have learn to a lot into it)Instead, leave out the USA asks, is that this the way it
will go? Her voice shrill and shaky, a bird's song. Will this be only one terrible occasion after one
other after one other after another—until we are all dead? both method this e-book makes you
think, chortle and draw back and the one option to discover if you want it truly is to learn it. yet
hurry the participants of the writers retreat are looking ahead to you to rescue them (don't rush)
so they're going to be well-known ;-pAnd sometime soon, any day now, the area will come open
that door and rescue us. the realm will listen. beginning on that sun-glorious day, the entire
international goes to like us.????? = most sensible e-book Ever!
Bill: precise to form, Palahniuk pens the most twisted F'd up characterizations within the
business. extraordinary and disturbing, for sure. Prolapsed pearl diving, again alley foot jobs,
Breather Betty dolls filled with love, Punch a mime for $5, the bowling ball bans. What extra do
you want? Thumectomys, nightmare boxes, crab lice and Sasquatch cycles…yep. It’s in
there.Palahniuk’s kind is undeniable. slicing dialog, excessive eccentric characters, demented
plotting, all sprinkled with a beneficiant quantities of humor and satire. i'd count on not anything
less. 3.5 Stars and suggested for all Palahniukians.
Simona Bartolotta: Palahniuk, hai in step with caso voglia di prendermi in step with i
fondelli?Questa los angeles domanda che mi martellava il cervello sin dalle top dieci pagine. los
angeles ragione è semplice: questo non è un libro, è un mucchio di stupidate. Stupidata numero
1), le poesie di inizio -o fine?- capitolo. Ora, spiegatemi quali stranezze dovrebbero
comunicarmi info los angeles loro completa assenza di un qualsivoglia significato.Stupidata 2), i
personaggi. Di una piattezza assurda. Non uno che faccia sfoggio di un carattere un po' diverso
dalla massa. (Sto davvero parlando di carattere con questi personaggi? Mi correggo: non ce
l'hanno, un carattere. Non fanno altro che pensare a come fare soldi una volta usciti dalla
prigionia e al modo più teatrale di scannarsi tra loro.) Stupidata 3), l. a. storia di fondo, che fa da
cornice ai racconti. O più che los angeles storia in sé, lo sviluppo, perché l'idea di partenza
period assai intrigante. Ma diamine, sviluppata male, male, male.Stupidata/inutilità 4), los
angeles perversione pazzesca di cui l'autore vuole informarci di essere dotato più o meno ogni
tre righe. E qui devo aprire una lunga parentesi.Chiariamoci, non ho nulla in contrario verso i
romanzi con quella punta di macabro che spesso e volentieri costituisce los angeles ciliegina
sulla torta; non ho nulla in contrario ai romanzi con un pizzico di erotismo, non ci
scandalizziamo mica. Ma, a mio parere, quando inserisci nella tua storia determinati elementi in
così abbondante quantità, quegli elementi devono avere una funzione narrativa che non sia
semplicemente effective a se stessa. Io, in quanto lettrice pienamente in possesso delle mie
facoltà mentali, mi sento insultata nel leggere qualcosa che mi dà l'impressione di perdersi a
metà strada senza raggiungere un obiettivo concreto. Mi sento presa in giro, ecco. Mi hai fatto
leggere questa accozzaglia di vaneggiamenti su tipi perversi, macellai, barboni e massaggiatrici
di piedi che uccidono (WTF?) consistent with portarmi alla conclusione che... cosa? Caro signor
Chuck, io voglio crederti sulla fiducia, e consistent with questo continuerò a credere che le tue
intenzioni erano buone e che tu credevi che questi raccontini mi avrebbero trasmesso qualcosa
di importante. Non è stato così. Magari tu volevi comunicarmi l. a. tua suggestion e sono stata io
che non l'ho recepita. Questo tuo modo di spiegarti non mi piace. Potresti essere più chiaro e
ragionevole, los angeles prossima volta?
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