Chuck Palahniuk is already working on "Fight Club 3", which will also be in comic form. He also confirmed that he is working on a series of original short stories for comics which will appear as one-shots before eventually being collected into a single book. A revised version of "Invisible Monsters", as well as his fourth novel, "Survivor", were published in 1999. A few years later Palahniuk managed to make his first "New York Times" bestseller, the novel "Choke", which later was made into a movie. The year 1999 brought a series of great personal tragedies to Palahniuk's life. At that time,
Chuck Palahniuk the temporal end, after every few chapters. Exceptions to this narrative form, however, include the more linear "Choke" and "Diary". Often a major plot twist exists that is revealed near the end of the book, which relates in some way to this temporal end (what Palahniuk refers to as "the hidden gun"). His more linear works also include similar plot twists. Palahniuk says that his writing style has been influenced by authors such as the minimalist Tom Spanbauer (who taught Palahniuk in Portland from 1991 to 1996), Amy Hempel, Mark Richard, Denis Johnson, Thom Jones, Bret Easton Ellis and philosophers