It was reported that to that point, 40 people had fainted while listening to the readings. While on his 2003 tour to promote his novel Diary, Palahniuk read to his audiences a short story titled “Guts”, a tale of accidents involving masturbation, which appears in his book Haunted. The phenomenon is covered in the Wikipedia article of the author: The essay had me hooked as it explained a phenomenon that happened at the readings of a certain short story by Chuck Palahniuk. This is why I write.įound this amazing Essay by the author of Fight Club. This is the advantage that books still have. These are the places that only books can go. No one has bothered to ban a book in decades. Actually, so few people make the effort to read that it’s difficult to call books a ‘mass medium’. A book takes time and effort to consume – something that gives a reader every chance to walk away. A book is as private and consensual as sex. But a book… A book is cheap to print and bind. Other forms of mass media cost too much to product to risk reaching only a limited audience. A motion picture, or music, or television, they have to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience.
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