no twist or did I just miss it?

Yes, old bean, you did miss the twist. If you bought it in softcover, you are apparently missing the magical ending that Palahniuk added in there - I've been told that if you have a hard cover, tearing at the back of your book will reveal additional pages. This probably sounds ridiculous and as if I'm just trying to be mean and make you feel foolish, but I'm quite serious that this is what I've been told to do. I refused to do it, of course, because secret endings hidden in back covers don't fly with me, and I had the soft cover anyway. Enjoy.

mine was a hardcover, and ripped it open once I read about it. Mine didn't have it! I was pissed. It was only in like, the first printing or something.

No, guys, you're all retarded. What you have to do is set the book spine on fire, and the fumes form into the words of the secret ending. Totally.

Well, I don't know about you, but it sure put my shorts in a twist, and that was good enough for me!

I hate the anticipation of a twist, though - like in Shymalan movies, you know he's going to do a twist. Because the twist fits the plot? No! Because he likes twists! That just ruins endings for me, and without an ending then a book so often becomes a piece of garbage.

I thought the Super Bowl was sort of a plot twist. It really got things rolling. And also, once you know the ending, the real ending, isn't that a twist as well?

When Tender meets Chubby Checker in the porno graveyard...

ru sure that theory is a fact? Cause I still think that Adam and Tender are two separate people... otherwise why would Fertility talk about him?

I prefer Pepsi to Coke... because there´s a Pepsi twist...

Everyone sort of has their own opinion as to how Survivor ends it seems. However, as some have said, Chuck did actually reveal what happens at the end of the book, which I suppose is the "true" ending of it. I picked up on the whole "tape recorder bitching at the black box" thing, which is a really good ending. But I like to believe that all we know for sure is that Tender is not on the plane anymore, and everything beyond that is left completely up to the imaginations and interpretations of Palahniuk's readers.

[QUOTE=alexander_thorul;982677]I hate the anticipation of a twist, though - like in Shymalan movies, you know he's going to do a twist. Because the twist fits the plot? No! Because he likes twists! That just ruins endings for me, and without an ending then a book so often becomes a piece of garbage.[/QUOTE]

ugh. i hate shymalan BECAUSE OF his twists. its like, i watch two hours of ure crap, and then there is this crazy twist that is supposed to make me feel like what i have just witnessed was, in fact pure genius. fuck that.

soooo I am too lazy to search for it but a few years ago someone found the "hidden" ending and posted it on here. I believe you had to highlight the selected passage to reveal it...needless to say, there is a twist if you can find it...good hunting!

 actually its pretty obvious you need to smoke the fumes, then when you are high , Tender pops up and tells you the ending.

So then what is the "Secret ending" when you tear at the book?

Do it!

I just finished this last night and loved the shit out of it.

And I thought there were a few twists throughout the whole story. Like Adam being alive after the family suicides and killing off all the other survivors. And Adam being the one who pulled the plug on the whole cult. And of course the geneenius ending/beginning.

Also, I just smelled coffee beans for the first time, great stuff.

^ And that's my lame attempt at being metaphorical.