guts

yeah, i've just finished reading this book. haunted by chuck palahniuk. a novel that consists of short stories that will gross you out of your wits. on the book that i bought, there's a writing on the cover that says parental advisory, read it at your own risk.

i've finished reading the whole book and there's a foreword by the author at the book. the first short story in this book is titled guts. it's about experiments with masturbation gone wrong. Horribly wrong. Nightmarishly wrong.

like any other authors, Palahniuk would go around to promote his book by giving book readings and book signings. he said that there are always, always people who fainted everytime he read guts. the total of people who has fainted while guts was being read is 73 people. that doesn't include people who has while fainted reading the story alone. haha.

Another story that's just as sick as guts is titled exodus. here is a paragraph about exodus taken from his foreword:

This was better from the tuesday before, when my story called 'exodus' sent a friend into my bathroom where she cried behind the locked door for the rest of the evening. Later, her therapist would ask for a copy of that story to help with her phsycoanalysis.

so one story bringing hundreds of people down and another that made someone pour their eyes out and confuse a therapist. can you still resist yourself from not reading this book? haha