--- title: Make Something Up slug: make-something-up qid: Q20856968 snapshot: make-something-up-2289744-4bf738168ac22271 content_hash: 4bf738168ac222711d9dea01f310de3f603365e2b138faa759a79afbf433fda9 license: CC BY-SA 4.0 source: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363286466 tags: [129745894, 23118434, 23603337, 26385787, 42441978, 44619596, 4632112, 73032201] --- # Make Something Up > [!note] Provenance > Snapshot `make-something-up-2289744-4bf738168ac22271` · content root `4bf738168ac22271…` > Derived from · Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread is a collection of short stories published on May 26, 2015, and written by Chuck Palahniuk. Make Something Up ranked No. 8 on the ALA's list of the Top Ten Challenged Books of 2016, due to profanity, sexual explicitness, and being "disgusting and all around offensive." Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread is a collection of short stories published on May 26, 2015, and written by Chuck Palahniuk. Make Something Up ranked No. 8 on the ALA's list of the Top Ten Challenged Books of 2016, due to profanity, sexual explicitness, and being "disgusting and all around offensive." ==Reception== Sandra Newman in The Guardian has many reservations: "In Palahniuk, we have a writer at the height of his powers, but who refuses to use those powers for good, and sometimes refuses to use them at all; who would rather soak his powers in urine, then eat them and vomit them into your lap. It's a performance that can be exhilarating when graceful, but simply painful when it is not. He is an enfant terrible in desperate need of adult supervision, and one wishes Palahniuk's editors would convince him not to publish his flimsiest tantrums. I would love to read his next 'Knock-Knock', but not at the risk of reading his next 'Torcher'." Mark Diston in The Register writes that "overall this collection is amusing, insightful and wickedly funny. Chuck Palahniuk is a different writer set free from the constrictions of writing a 'straight' novel. The same problems that made Beautiful You such a flawed work are still apparent in this collection, but Make Something Up is a much more relaxed, playful and better book." ==References== ==External links== "Knock Knock" read by Chuck Palahniuk (via YouTube) "Eleanor" online "Zombies" read by Chuck Palahniuk (via YouTube) "Zombies" online "Loser" read by Chuck Palahniuk at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2008: part 1 part 2 part 3 "Romance" read by Chuck Palahniuk (via YouTube) "Cannibal" online "The Toad Prince" read by Chuck Palahniuk (via YouTube) "Fetch" online