"I don't know what it is about that story, but it just knocks 'em over," he quipped. Palahniuk, who also penned Fight Club, Survivor and Lullaby, explained that at Auntie's Bookstore in Spokane, a blood stain on the carpet still exists where someone fainted during the reading and cracked his head open on the wooden bookshelf. "Some people sent me their hospital admission forms to get me to sign them and send them back." "It's a joy to watch it."Īccording to Palahniuk, the folks in the audience who passed out during the readings really did indeed pass out. "I think the one thing that sets off is they get so disarmed in the first part of the story that once they realize where it's going, they sweat like pigs and they fall down," Palahniuk said over the phone. You'll either violently wince or laugh out loud when you read iteven the third time around. And then there's the obligatory carrot-up-the-butt scene. In another scene, a chap gets his intestines sucked out though his rectum by a pump in a swimming pool. Originally published in Playboy, "Guts" features such delightful scenes as a stoned man masturbating with a rod of candle wax shoved up his penis only to have the rod slip into his bladder. THROUGHOUT Chuck Palahniuk's 2003 author tour, 67 unrelated people fainted while he read his short story "Guts." A few folks actually vomited and went to the hospital. JavaScript must be enabled to display this email address. Chuck Palahniuk probes for a visceral response in his harrowing new novel, 'Haunted'
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