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Legacy: An Off-Color Novella for You to Color
New York’ta bir arabuluculuk firmasında çalışan Vincent kendisiyle alay etmek için hiçbir fırsatı kaçırmayan iş arkadaşlarından zerre kadar haz etmeyen, yalnız yaşayan sıradan bir gençtir.
Bir gün adını dahi hatırlamadığı babasının bıraktığı tuhaf mirasla baş başa kalan Vincent’ın hayatı, Baccarat adlı bir striptizciyle tanışması sonrası o zamana kadarki monotonluğu mumla aratacak bir hal alır. Hiç de tesadüf olmadığını anlayacağı bu tanışma Vincent’a konfor alanlarını, annesiyle zorlu ilişkisini, geçmişini, özel mülkiyet kavramını, önem verdiği şeyleri sorgulatacak; kişisel gibi görünen meselelerin aslında hiç de öyle olmadığını gösterecektir.
Yeraltı klasiği olarak anılan Dövüş Kulübü’nün yazarı Chuck Palahniuk ölümsüzlüğü dert edinerek kaleme aldığı bu muzır novellasında da tüketim kültürüne, durup düşünmeden yaşayanlara, büyük resmi göremeyenlere lafını esirgemiyor. Basit bir ağaç üzerinden fantastik bir olay örgüsü kuran Palahniuk, çizimleri renklendirmeyi de okurunun hayal gücüne bırakıyor. Miras aynı zamanda Palahniuk’in bir yazar olarak okurlarına mirası.
Bir gün adını dahi hatırlamadığı babasının bıraktığı tuhaf mirasla baş başa kalan Vincent’ın hayatı, Baccarat adlı bir striptizciyle tanışması sonrası o zamana kadarki monotonluğu mumla aratacak bir hal alır. Hiç de tesadüf olmadığını anlayacağı bu tanışma Vincent’a konfor alanlarını, annesiyle zorlu ilişkisini, geçmişini, özel mülkiyet kavramını, önem verdiği şeyleri sorgulatacak; kişisel gibi görünen meselelerin aslında hiç de öyle olmadığını gösterecektir.
Yeraltı klasiği olarak anılan Dövüş Kulübü’nün yazarı Chuck Palahniuk ölümsüzlüğü dert edinerek kaleme aldığı bu muzır novellasında da tüketim kültürüne, durup düşünmeden yaşayanlara, büyük resmi göremeyenlere lafını esirgemiyor. Basit bir ağaç üzerinden fantastik bir olay örgüsü kuran Palahniuk, çizimleri renklendirmeyi de okurunun hayal gücüne bırakıyor. Miras aynı zamanda Palahniuk’in bir yazar olarak okurlarına mirası.
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144 pages, Hardcover
Published November 7, 2017
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Chuck Palahniuk
168 books132k followersWritten in stolen moments under truck chassis and on park benches to a soundtrack of The Downward Spiral and Pablo Honey, Fight Club came into existence. The adaptation of Fight Club was a flop at the box office, but achieved cult status on DVD. The film’s popularity drove sales of the novel. Chuck put out two novels in 1999, Survivor and Invisible Monsters. Choke, published in 2001, became Chuck’s first New York Times bestseller. Chuck’s work has always been infused with personal experience, and his next novel, Lullaby, was no exception. Chuck credits writing Lullaby with helping him cope with the tragic death of his father. Diary and the non-fiction guide to Portland, Fugitives and Refugees, were released in 2003. While on the road in support of Diary, Chuck began reading a short story entitled 'Guts,' which would eventually become part of the novel Haunted.
In the years that followed, he continued to write, publishing the bestselling Rant, Snuff, Pygmy, Tell-All, a 'remix' of Invisible Monsters, Damned, and most recently, Doomed.
Chuck also enjoys giving back to his fans, and teaching the art of storytelling has been an important part of that. In 2004, Chuck began submitting essays to ChuckPalahniuk.net on the craft of writing. These were 'How To' pieces, straight out of Chuck's personal bag of tricks, based on the tenants of minimalism he learned from Tom Spanbauer. Every month, a “Homework Assignment” would accompany the lesson, so Workshop members could apply what they had learned. (all 36 of these essays can currently be found on The Cult's sister-site, LitReactor.com).
Then, in 2009, Chuck increased his involvement by committing to read and review a selection of fan-written stories each month. The best stories are currently set to be published in Burnt Tongues, a forthcoming anthology, with an introduction written by Chuck himself.
His next novel, Beautiful You, is due out in October 2014.
In the years that followed, he continued to write, publishing the bestselling Rant, Snuff, Pygmy, Tell-All, a 'remix' of Invisible Monsters, Damned, and most recently, Doomed.
Chuck also enjoys giving back to his fans, and teaching the art of storytelling has been an important part of that. In 2004, Chuck began submitting essays to ChuckPalahniuk.net on the craft of writing. These were 'How To' pieces, straight out of Chuck's personal bag of tricks, based on the tenants of minimalism he learned from Tom Spanbauer. Every month, a “Homework Assignment” would accompany the lesson, so Workshop members could apply what they had learned. (all 36 of these essays can currently be found on The Cult's sister-site, LitReactor.com).
Then, in 2009, Chuck increased his involvement by committing to read and review a selection of fan-written stories each month. The best stories are currently set to be published in Burnt Tongues, a forthcoming anthology, with an introduction written by Chuck himself.
His next novel, Beautiful You, is due out in October 2014.
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June 28, 2017Expected publication: November 7th!
May 8, 2021
"Hey, hey, lady! You wanna watch it? Your bush almost busted off my tree!"
Chuck is back with his second installment of his coloring book novella. Okay, this book came out a few years ago but I’m just getting around to reading it.
This book is bizarre and hilarious as it’s paired with black and white illustrations for you to color. The story gets a lot weirder as the story progresses as does the illustrations. It was hard not to bring out the crayons to color those.
Legacy was a messed up story that you’ll love if you’re a fan of Chucks. This is one of the main reasons to love his work. He doesn’t care who he offends, it’s great!
Chuck is back with his second installment of his coloring book novella. Okay, this book came out a few years ago but I’m just getting around to reading it.
This book is bizarre and hilarious as it’s paired with black and white illustrations for you to color. The story gets a lot weirder as the story progresses as does the illustrations. It was hard not to bring out the crayons to color those.
Legacy was a messed up story that you’ll love if you’re a fan of Chucks. This is one of the main reasons to love his work. He doesn’t care who he offends, it’s great!
January 21, 2018
The second large format, hardcover "coloring book" that Chuck Palahniuk has released in less than two years, destined to be difficult to find in libraries, second hand bookstores, or digitally, by virtue of what it is, Legacy is ironically destined to be the least well known of all of Chuck Palahniuk's work. Unless some left field filmmaker ends up taking the story and turning it into something with a cult following (which is not impossible with this book's story), this is one that is likely to hit the footnote section of any future selected bibliography.
Sales suggest the same. While his first "coloring book", Bait, a collection of short stories, sold appreciably well, Dark Horse found themselves scrambling to get this one off the shelves. At the last minute before release, realizing that no one was paying attention or caring, Dark Horse announced that any preorder of the book would come with a book plate signed by the author. I only know this because I wondered why my book was signed, and looked it up. Pleasant surprise.
It is unfortunate that this book hasn't received more attention. It's a unique little treasure. Between Fight Club 2 and Bait, it seems Palahniuk has really found his stride in just how to work with his illustrators. Instead of a long list of comic book heavy hitters like he found for Bait (likely part of the reason it was a better seller), for this book he has only two illustrators, each clearly working to maintain as consistent a style as possible through the book. This puts more focus on the interplay of the two elements than Bait, and more focus on Palahniuk's work himself than Fight Club 2 (his personal appearance in his own book notwithstanding). There is a fascinating dramatic collaboration going on here that is different than any illustrated book I've ever read, or any form of sequential illustrated storytelling.
Part of what makes this book unique compared to any other illustrated book is the sheer number of illustrations. There is hardly a page without an illustration. One illustration is a double page spread. Unlike sequential art storytelling, the pictures don't tell a different part of the story than the text. Except when the pictures contradict the text, which is itself interesting, they are redundant, like typical book illustrations. But the sheer number of them, and the size and frequency of their imposition impacts the reading of the book far more significantly than most illustrated books. But the most significant impact of the marriage of text and image is one I did not expect at all, even though it is found in the subtitle of the book. This is a "coloring book".
This really is a colouring book. I've used quotes up until now not to suggest it isn't, but to excuse my use of the subtitle's American spelling.
Palahniuk wrote the book to be a colouring book. For almost every image, the prose matching the illustration describes the colours in the scene. The story draws attention to the illustrations, and invites the reader to complete them. To my surprise, I found myself wanting to stop and colour the pictures, whose colours were described more than any other detail, the only detail missing. I found myself drawn to the illustrations, "reading" them, almost as I would in sequential art. It is difficult to explain. But I believe there might be the seed of a new kind of collaborative storytelling here. It's a collaboration between illustrator and writer, yes, but also a collaboration with the reader in a new way, inviting the collaboration that always existed, that of the reader's imagination, into the actual, measurable part of the storytelling. It's a fascinating look at the process itself, that relationship between writer and reader made somehow intimate in a new way.
All of this is the form of the book. But with an experience so unique, the attention is deserved.
As for the story, it is definitely Palahniuk. It is irreverent. It is transgressive. It is horrifically violent. The protagonist is a young, lonely, single, adult white male, as one expects from Palahniuk. He is confronted with a physical manifestation of the weight of expectations of generations of fathers before him, and nearly crushed by the immensity of the choice between honouring a life given him by the sacrifice of so many others, or breaking free of such feeling of responsibility for the sake of hedonism and comeuppance. Will he be a part of something bigger than himself, or inflate himself to be bigger than others, though alone?
The story succeeds in many ways, despite its shockingly crude and blunt telling. I enjoyed it as much as many other books by Palahniuk. And like many, it had a quality that definitely felt ready for a film adaptation. I will return to it.
However, the form of the book, and the quality of design and illustration, and the thoughtful storytelling to fit within the form elevates the book from a readable and entertaining Palahniuk novella up to something a great deal more special.
I recommend this book to any (mature, adult) fan of Palahniuk, to any (mature, adult) reader interested in experimental storytelling, and to anyone interested in short, dark fiction, as long as they can stomach it (this book is not for kids).
☠
Hardcover
Dark Horse, 2017
Illustrated by Steve Morris and Mike Norton
Four Stars
January 18-20, 2018
☠
Sales suggest the same. While his first "coloring book", Bait, a collection of short stories, sold appreciably well, Dark Horse found themselves scrambling to get this one off the shelves. At the last minute before release, realizing that no one was paying attention or caring, Dark Horse announced that any preorder of the book would come with a book plate signed by the author. I only know this because I wondered why my book was signed, and looked it up. Pleasant surprise.
It is unfortunate that this book hasn't received more attention. It's a unique little treasure. Between Fight Club 2 and Bait, it seems Palahniuk has really found his stride in just how to work with his illustrators. Instead of a long list of comic book heavy hitters like he found for Bait (likely part of the reason it was a better seller), for this book he has only two illustrators, each clearly working to maintain as consistent a style as possible through the book. This puts more focus on the interplay of the two elements than Bait, and more focus on Palahniuk's work himself than Fight Club 2 (his personal appearance in his own book notwithstanding). There is a fascinating dramatic collaboration going on here that is different than any illustrated book I've ever read, or any form of sequential illustrated storytelling.
Part of what makes this book unique compared to any other illustrated book is the sheer number of illustrations. There is hardly a page without an illustration. One illustration is a double page spread. Unlike sequential art storytelling, the pictures don't tell a different part of the story than the text. Except when the pictures contradict the text, which is itself interesting, they are redundant, like typical book illustrations. But the sheer number of them, and the size and frequency of their imposition impacts the reading of the book far more significantly than most illustrated books. But the most significant impact of the marriage of text and image is one I did not expect at all, even though it is found in the subtitle of the book. This is a "coloring book".
This really is a colouring book. I've used quotes up until now not to suggest it isn't, but to excuse my use of the subtitle's American spelling.
Palahniuk wrote the book to be a colouring book. For almost every image, the prose matching the illustration describes the colours in the scene. The story draws attention to the illustrations, and invites the reader to complete them. To my surprise, I found myself wanting to stop and colour the pictures, whose colours were described more than any other detail, the only detail missing. I found myself drawn to the illustrations, "reading" them, almost as I would in sequential art. It is difficult to explain. But I believe there might be the seed of a new kind of collaborative storytelling here. It's a collaboration between illustrator and writer, yes, but also a collaboration with the reader in a new way, inviting the collaboration that always existed, that of the reader's imagination, into the actual, measurable part of the storytelling. It's a fascinating look at the process itself, that relationship between writer and reader made somehow intimate in a new way.
All of this is the form of the book. But with an experience so unique, the attention is deserved.
As for the story, it is definitely Palahniuk. It is irreverent. It is transgressive. It is horrifically violent. The protagonist is a young, lonely, single, adult white male, as one expects from Palahniuk. He is confronted with a physical manifestation of the weight of expectations of generations of fathers before him, and nearly crushed by the immensity of the choice between honouring a life given him by the sacrifice of so many others, or breaking free of such feeling of responsibility for the sake of hedonism and comeuppance. Will he be a part of something bigger than himself, or inflate himself to be bigger than others, though alone?
The story succeeds in many ways, despite its shockingly crude and blunt telling. I enjoyed it as much as many other books by Palahniuk. And like many, it had a quality that definitely felt ready for a film adaptation. I will return to it.
However, the form of the book, and the quality of design and illustration, and the thoughtful storytelling to fit within the form elevates the book from a readable and entertaining Palahniuk novella up to something a great deal more special.
I recommend this book to any (mature, adult) fan of Palahniuk, to any (mature, adult) reader interested in experimental storytelling, and to anyone interested in short, dark fiction, as long as they can stomach it (this book is not for kids).
☠
Hardcover
Dark Horse, 2017
Illustrated by Steve Morris and Mike Norton
Four Stars
January 18-20, 2018
☠
December 5, 2017
I liked it. Waiting for Palahniuk to return to the long form, enough with the short stories; likewise, hoping Chuck would atone for that absolute piece of garbage he put out last time, Beautiful You. And happy to say this was a good one.
February 28, 2019
Awfully entertaining! Palahniuk's best work of recent years, probably since Damned. The illustrations pump it up nicely too.
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November 5, 2023#legacy by @chuckpalahniuk published in 2017. A novella with black and white illustrations ready for the reader to colour in their own unique ways.
Some good humour and although violent in places it is less sexually brutal than his most recent work. I had a good time. As usual for chuck some moments of comedy, darkness, grossness, with thought provoking ideas and interesting and quirky ways of examining different subjects
Some good humour and although violent in places it is less sexually brutal than his most recent work. I had a good time. As usual for chuck some moments of comedy, darkness, grossness, with thought provoking ideas and interesting and quirky ways of examining different subjects
January 8, 2024
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January 9, 2025
İnsanlar, saklama kaplarını tutmuş, bırakmıyor. Bedenlerini kıyafetlerin içine hapsediyor, arabaların içine hapsediyorlar. Kendilerini de şehirlerin içine hapsedilmiş binalara hapsedilmiş odalara hapsediyorlar. Tıpkı Matruşka bebeklerde olduğu gibi, koruma katmanları var ve bu katmanlar ruhumuzun demir almasına izin vermiyor. Her birimiz aklımızda küçük bir parça Tanrı fikriyle orada burada geziniyoruz. Sadece zihnimizde yaşattığımız, biyolojik olarak çözünebilir bir kabukla paketlenmiş minnacık bir fikir.
"Dışarısı, bizim düşmanımız değil," dedi Baccarat ona. "Dışarısı, ait olduğumuz yer."
"Dışarısı, bizim düşmanımız değil," dedi Baccarat ona. "Dışarısı, ait olduğumuz yer."
November 26, 2017
3.5 stars.
August 23, 2018
A loveable super quick read. Perfect for a Palahniuk addict busy mom.
April 13, 2024
Chuck Palahniuk severler için bir oturuşta okuyup bitirilecek çok eğlenceli bir novella. Ayrıca kitapta renklendirmeniz için ilginç illüstrasyonlar var.
February 1, 2019
A large format adult coloring book, which has become a mini-rage now, tell a novella length tale from Chuck Palahniuk (I’ve never known how to pronounce that name). While the book clocks in at 150 some odd pages, the words are in 32 point font and there are plenty of pictures for you to color in.
I often go back and forth on Palahniuk’s work. His earlier material, Fight Club, and so on is dead-on great, but as time continues his work seems sloppier and sloppier, more dashed out and less thoughtful. Which is probably the case as publishers are likely to print whatever he dashes out on his name recognition alone. His fame hasn’t done him any favors.
He is obviously educated and brings his knowledge to his work, but it is presented in such an off-hand way that it comes across as shallow. It’s as if he’s writing down to us. That he expects anyone who reads his material to be too stupid to take in any grand themes or detailed material, peppering up his narrative with off-color material, stripper, drugs, profanity, but essentially this is a quick dashed off story with a banal twist.
The action revolves around a magic bonsai tree that every thousand years sprouts a magical peach that grants whoever eats it immortality. A man inherits it from an absentee father and becomes embroiled in bloodbath after bloodbath as various forces try to track him down and obtain to the immortal fruit.
June 15, 2025
Biçimsel olarak çizimlerle desteklenmiş, “renklendirilebilir kitap” formatında sunulan bir Chuck Palahniuk novellasıyla karşı karşıyayız. Palahniuk, her zamanki gibi alegorik anlatımını, absürt tonları ve toplumsal eleştirilerini kısa ama çarpıcı bir hikâyeyle harmanlamış.
Kitap, kuşaktan kuşağa aktarılan “miras” fikri etrafında dönüyor. Neleri miras alıyoruz? Bu miraslarla ne yapacağımıza gerçekten biz mi karar veriyoruz? Yoksa farkında bile olmadan, sorgulamadan mı taşıyoruz onları? Uğruna savaşmaya hazır olduğumuz şeyler, gerçekten bizim seçimimiz mi?
İlk bakışta hikâye bu kadar derin bir yerden geliyormuş gibi durmuyor; ama Palahniuk’un ustalığı da tam burada devreye giriyor. Karakterler oldukça karikatürize, hikâye kısa ve fantastik öğeler barındırıyor. Ancak bu, anlatının gerçekliğini azaltmak yerine düşünsel yanını daha çok öne çıkarıyor. Sorgulatmak, Palahniuk, Palahniuk, sorgulatmak☺️
Palahniuk’un daha sert, daha kışkırtıcı kitaplarıyla kıyaslandığında daha ölçülü bir anlatımı var Miras’ın ama Palahniuk’u ya da bu tarz edebiyatı seviyorsan keyif verir, bana verdi. Tabii önce Dövüş Kulübü!
Kitap, kuşaktan kuşağa aktarılan “miras” fikri etrafında dönüyor. Neleri miras alıyoruz? Bu miraslarla ne yapacağımıza gerçekten biz mi karar veriyoruz? Yoksa farkında bile olmadan, sorgulamadan mı taşıyoruz onları? Uğruna savaşmaya hazır olduğumuz şeyler, gerçekten bizim seçimimiz mi?
İlk bakışta hikâye bu kadar derin bir yerden geliyormuş gibi durmuyor; ama Palahniuk’un ustalığı da tam burada devreye giriyor. Karakterler oldukça karikatürize, hikâye kısa ve fantastik öğeler barındırıyor. Ancak bu, anlatının gerçekliğini azaltmak yerine düşünsel yanını daha çok öne çıkarıyor. Sorgulatmak, Palahniuk, Palahniuk, sorgulatmak☺️
Palahniuk’un daha sert, daha kışkırtıcı kitaplarıyla kıyaslandığında daha ölçülü bir anlatımı var Miras’ın ama Palahniuk’u ya da bu tarz edebiyatı seviyorsan keyif verir, bana verdi. Tabii önce Dövüş Kulübü!
June 2, 2018
The story is a quick read. It's not the most innovative plot and the protagonist doesn't have a ton of dimension (I think he probably fits in with the jerks he complains about more than he'd like to admit) but it works very well with the coloring book format. The descriptions are tailored to fit the illustrations and there are many of them! The best part of the book is looking through them for all the great details. I've only colored a few so far so I'm excited to keep enjoying this for quite a while, although some of the pictures are so gruesome I'm not sure about tackling them. It is a Palahniuk story, after all.
November 16, 2017
It's Chuck. All of his stories are out there and this one is no different. There is the usual wit and sarcasm that is present in all his work. This one is a bit tamer than his short story "Guts." I like the story and I think it could make an interesting movie if done right. Then there is the coloring book aspect... pictures for us to color... just like Bait.
An ancient tree, bullies, "douchebaggery," an overbearing mother, living in the streets to hide from gangsters, murder... good stuff.
An ancient tree, bullies, "douchebaggery," an overbearing mother, living in the streets to hide from gangsters, murder... good stuff.
February 12, 2020
Legacy é um livro diferente do habitual. Tem um mestre do storytelling, em excelente forma, a narrar um conto negro bem ao seu jeito. Tem mestres da banda desenhada atual a ilustrar (preto e branco) a fantástica narrativa. E, por fim, tem o leitor (se o desejar) a pintar a gosto estas ilustrações. Um experiência mais completa e cativante para o leitor do que o habitual.
3,5*
3,5*
April 10, 2018
This was enjoyable, but pretty light in comparison to Chuck’s other work. I could see the twist coming early. Vincent isn’t much fun and the characters who surround him aren’t that interesting either. It’s a light and easy read.
January 3, 2021
I read through then will color. Started coloring with pencils but think I'm going to switch to markers for more vibrancy. Water colors would look saucy too. I'm going 5 because the format demands it.
October 23, 2021
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Leave it to Chuck to give you something new and slightly wrong. A horror novella in a children’s coloring book format? Oh yeah. He did that. Love the originality and the story kept me turning pages. It’s the fun change of pace I needed. Check it out if you get the chance.
Leave it to Chuck to give you something new and slightly wrong. A horror novella in a children’s coloring book format? Oh yeah. He did that. Love the originality and the story kept me turning pages. It’s the fun change of pace I needed. Check it out if you get the chance.
May 12, 2024
A silly and very fun story about a plant which grants immortality, and how caring about something other than ourselves can make us forget about our own mortality. A wide variety of ways to say "douche bag" are featured throughout the book, which is great.
November 17, 2017
I didn’t love this, but I did enjoy it.
April 15, 2018
It's dark, but what else could you expect from Chuck Palahniuk. Haven't colored any of it, yet, but the story was a wild ride of hilarious cynicism - definitely my all time favorite coloring book!
December 29, 2019
Loved the stories and the art. I've Xeroxed my book so I can color it without ruining it. 🤓
July 5, 2022
3.5/5
August 1, 2023
A winning idea and a blistering start trail off to nothing much as an already-lean novella rushes towards its climax, leaving little room for the transgressive themes and big ideas to settle in.
December 6, 2023
It was a fun story and the illustrations are great. I probably will never color in this book but I like that I can…
June 23, 2024
The government wants you to be scared to go outside! Fight the man by taking lots of walks in places where normies will be forced to see you.
November 10, 2025
Me dejó pensando si de verdad no habrá un tipo de tesoro como el que mencionan en el libro escondido en plena vista. Palahniuk siempre tiene ideas geniales aún en historias cortas.
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