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.

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.

"[10] 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.