Hunt: Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
Location: Georgia's Thrift Store, McAllen, TX
Success: 0% (though, I bought other books)
Cost: $12.99
After finding out I don't like Chuck Palahniuk's writing, someone made a case to give him a second chance. Her suggestion is to read Rant
. As with most of my book hunts, I ventured to Georgia's Thrift Shop. The only books Mike had on stock by Palahniuk were Fight Club
- which I can borrow from Monica - and Haunted
. I could've made the exception and just pick up the latter, but the price was too high for my blood - five dollars. I don't think Palahniuk's worth five dollars, let alone the price of his novels. Call me when you have for fifty cents and I might haggle you a nickel.
Of course, I didn't come out empty handed. I did manage to find nine books that piqued my interest and found a cheap copy of Star Wars Episode III for a reasonable price. So here's what I did buy:
. As with most of my book hunts, I ventured to Georgia's Thrift Shop. The only books Mike had on stock by Palahniuk were Fight Club - which I can borrow from Monica - and Haunted. I could've made the exception and just pick up the latter, but the price was too high for my blood - five dollars. I don't think Palahniuk's worth five dollars, let alone the price of his novels. Call me when you have for fifty cents and I might haggle you a nickel.Of course, I didn't come out empty handed. I did manage to find nine books that piqued my interest and found a cheap copy of Star Wars Episode III for a reasonable price. So here's what I did buy:
- Four Past Midnight by Stephen King
- The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
- The ESP Affair by Alison Tyler
- Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith starring Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen
- Utopian Literature edited by J.W. Johnson
- Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King
- Thirteen edited by T. Pines
- Ghost Walk by Brian Keene
- The Tommyknockers by Stephen King
- Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris
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