![]() Tell-All is the story of a classic beauty from the golden age of Hollywood named Katherine Kenton and her relationships with her fans, her lovers and most importantly with her personal assistant, Hazie Coogan. So, with a slightly nervous and queasy stomach, I took his newest tome off the shelf at my local bookstore and came home to test my nerves on Tell-All. Palahniuk has mastered a way of detailing believably the worst choices people make every day and their sometimes grotesque ramifications. People began diving head first into his sordid tales of depravity, violence and regression of human tendencies to their most primal and animalistic. ![]() His written success was already on the path to fame and infamy, but the spotlight firmly became implanted on his typewriter after the release of the film version of one of his most famous stories, Fight Club. Stephen King, Mark Danielewski and Dave Eggers are some of the top of my list, but included with them is a man who seemingly strives to be known as one of the most twisted and demented minds in the contemporary literary canon, Chuck Palahniuk. There are a few authors in the world that cause me to make a goal of reading everything they put to paper, or whatever medium they choose.
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