Chalk it up to the fact that until fairly recently Palahniuk was not publicly out. Ho Yay: Male-Male friendships are often center stage, and in several works there's a level of sexual tension that's very hard to debate.First-Person Smartass - Every Palahniuk narrator is this.Fight Clubbing - He wrote the book on it.Evil Feels Good - A recurring theme in his work.The crash will destroy the smaller recorder, but the surviving black box will make it appear that Tender is dead. The rest of the book is just one machine whining and bitching to another machine. The minute the fourth engine flames out, he starts the cassette talking, then bails out, into Fertility's waiting arms (she's omniscient, you know). It's just ranting, nothing important plot-wise, and it can be interrupted at any point by the destruction of the plane. Even before our hero starts to dictate his story - during the few minutes he's supposed to be taking a piss - he's actually in the bathroom dictating the last chapter into the cassette recorder. It's noted on page 7(8?) that a pile of valuable offerings has been left in the front of the passenger cabin. For those of you who don't want to go look for it, this is his interpretation: The end of Survivor isn't nearly so complicated.Palahniuk's own interpretation of Survivor's ending is fairly positive.
Haunted is probably the most triumphant example. Downer Ending - Virtually any book that doesn't have a bittersweet end.The main character in Invisible Monster's jaw injury.Body Horror - "One stupid mistake, and now he'll never be a lawyer.".
Author Appeal - Quite possibly the color Cornflower Blue.All of his books have a passing reference to cornflower blue. And what might be considered an arc color.Arc Words - When he uses them, he refers to them as "choruses".Anachronic Order - Common in many of his novels, but probably most prominent in Invisible Monsters.Chuck Palahniuk provides examples of the following tropes:
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