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Summary: Great Read
Review: If you're a chuck fan, you'll love it. I thought survivor and choke were better but lullaby will certainly hold it's weight.
Lullaby is clever and reads really fast. I wish it were longer as the end makes you want the story to keep going and going.
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Summary: A Fantastic Read; Chuck at His Best
Review: I've been a fan of Chuck Palahniuk ever since I saw Fight Club. I've read all of his books since then at least once, and I must say that Lullaby shows Palahniuk's genuine talent as a captivating, off-beat author. The largely anonymous narrator is a loose cannon with a killer poem in his head that will instantly kills anyone around him at the slightest offense. The implications of this deadly "culling song" gaining the public eye are immense, giving the term "serial killer" not just a new definition, but a whole new dimension, as well. Palahniuk's trademark quirky characters abound, too: the sex-deprived mind killer; a real estate agent who specializes in selling haunted houses (huge turnover that way); the young Wiccan and her would-be genocidal boyfriend. Lullaby shows Palahniuk's extensive research into witchcraft and serial killers as the story's focus slides into a pagan theme. Overall, anyone who digs a "killer" story and ingenious satire would love this novel.
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Summary: Lullabies and Culling
Review: The only other exposure I have had to the work of this writer, Chuck Palahniuk, was the cinema version of his work, "Fight Club". If you have seen the film you already know how original a thinker he is, and while I don't know how much the story changed from book to screen, I had no trouble recognizing, "Lullaby", as the work of the same writer. I even found myself placing the same actors in the primary roles in this book that appeared in the previous film."Lullaby", is thought provoking at a minimum, and will take you to areas of conduct that are still among some subjects that virtually all will consider taboo. An example is Necrophilia which I think will make most people feel they are reading material that will cause varying degrees of discomfort. The entire book is meant to press the darkest buttons inside of readers, Mr. Palahniuk will venture wherever he decides his story needs to go, he offers no respite, no safe haven. Whether you like this style or not I think it is refreshing to find an author that will go in to the darkest areas of human nature, not to be puerile or exploitative, rather to utilize material that is a valid piece of his tale. He is not afraid of offending, or perhaps he is just completely honest, he writes what he needs to write, if some are put off and he sells less books, so be it. The man is not commercial. Placing topic aside for a moment and turning to style, I find this writer's work to be original in how he presents detail. Colors play a large part in this book, so when he needs to use green it becomes much more than simply green. He describes the green that appears on the felt of a pool table, but only when the red number 3 ball is upon the felt, as opposed to the yellow number 1. Or green is not lime but rather like the color of key lime pie, not avocado but avocado bisque topped with a thin sliver of lemon. This level of description is not meant as sleight of hand or an effort to fill space; it makes the reading incredibly rich, or perhaps lush Mr. Palahniuk is not for everyone but if you like stepping away from what you usually read, and take a bit of a risk, you may be pleasantly surprised and appropriately rewarded. This writer follows only his own path.
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Summary: Fantasy/Horror for people who hate Fantasy/Horror
Review: Lullaby: funny, imaginative, goofy, gory. Despite a bit of a plot hole (reading v. thinking the lullaby at someone), it kicks the proverbial A. Even more satisfying than Fight Club.
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Summary: Yeah, ok
Review: Yeah so I couldn't put the damn book down. I'm not saying that it's that good or anything, but it's so...i dont know. I would definitly reccomment that you at least go check the book out, im somwhat dissapopinted that I spent as much money as I did on this book. If you want to read a truly good book spend a little more and read the Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub.
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Summary: Amazing!!
Review: What an amazing book. It sort of reminded me of a Pulp Fiction vibe - really weird characters in unusual (to say the least) circumstances. Lullaby, however, has some really interesting and important comments on society buried in between African death poems, angry vegans, and necropheliac medics. It's a great story. I couldn't put it down. Mr. Palahniuk's work should be on every human being's shelf.
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Summary: "Not for everyone BUT I loved it!"
Review: I have to admit that Mr.Palahniuk' writing style might not be for everyone, but I personally find his books a BLAST. His characters are unusual and well-developed. The dialogue truly orginal. And, his plots are real edge of your seat. A very exciting combination. If you like fiction that is out of the ordinary then "Lullaby," is the book for you. John Savoy
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Summary: A novel for people who do not read
Review: There are those who consider Chuck Palahniuk to be a good writer. There are others who consider him to be a bad writer. I deny that he is a "writer" at all. Chuck Palahniuk claims to write "as people really speak." What he succeeds in doing, however, is passively absorbing and reflecting some brand of ordinary language: he merely repeats the rhythms of a kind of everyday speech. His work is therefore not "writing" in the strong sense of the word---it is, rather, recorded speech. He has not mastered ordinary language in a writerly fashion, he has not made it his own, he has not transformed ordinary language into the language of fiction in the way that Bret Easton Ellis and Irvine Welsh have (both of whose work the author knows). He speaks, he does not write. As a result, what readers are left with are books full of lazy, sloppy, clumsily composed constructions. There is no trace of effort or revision in any of his books. With the greatest arrogance, Palahniuk vomits onto the page whatever comes to his mind. The language of these books is representative of the language of e-mail or a casual conversation between friends. Their dialect is Portlandese. This is not to say that Palahniuk's work is completely worthless. FIGHT CLUB had a brilliant narrative (with the exception of the ending). It surveyed some of the major political movements of the 20th century. But its execution had me, at least, worried. It is criminally unpolished. He may claim that he is deliberately writing in a crude style, but, with few exceptions (the very eloquent "Kudzu vines" passage of FIGHT CLUB is one), Chuck Palahniuk does not give the impression that he could write any BETTER. Do not misunderstand me: I am not opposed to minimalism or slang in writing. What I dislike is awkward, careless writing, not colloquialism. LULLABY is not Palahniuk's worst book. CHOKE earns that distinction. But it is often infantile and, in general, an embarrassment (in the sense that one feels embarrassed for the author). Generally speaking, it is better for authors of fiction to prefer intelligence to stupidity. Chuck Palahniuk seems to prefer the opposite. Hence Palahniuk's self-confessed, stubborn obession with "dumb words." No one with a shred of intelligence is likely to be impressed by sentences like, "I'm not the pioneer brain of anything" (p. 42, LULLABY) or, "She had a decent little pooper in tight jeans" (p. 91, Ibid.). I am quoting at random, by the way. One should be grateful to the author for prompting more people to read. Unfortunately, much of his readership seems to know (at most) five books. It isn't surprising to learn that most of these people began to read Palahniuk only after watching the David Fincher film version of FIGHT CLUB. They do not have a strong reading background and therefore cannot compare Palahniuk's work with that of other authors. I hope that they will eventually give up their mindless idolatry of Palahniuk and move on to more sophisticated authors. To them, Palahniuk is God. But God isn't an artist. Neither is Chuck Palahniuk.
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Summary: Well past his "Use by" date.
Review: If this is your first foray into the work of Chuck Palanhiuk, then more power to you. Unfortunately, if you've read everything he's ever written, there's really nothing at all new in this book. He's a pretty good writer to start with, but over the past few books he really hasn't grown any as a writer -- he's still using the same trite device he employed in 'Fight Club' of picking two sentences and repeating them monotonously throughout the entire novel, still trying to create more outrageous characters that behave badly. For one book, this works. For a few books, it can be tolerated. It's gone too far now. It's not even a very scary book, for all the touting it's getting as a 'horror novel'. If you want horror, go read Clive Barker or Stephen King. If you want Chuck Palanhiuk, read 'Fight Club'. Avoid this book at all costs.
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Summary: Far From Palahniuk's Best
Review: I have read all of Chuck Palahniuk's books and thought that Survivor and Choke were his best. This book is very inconsistant and I think it shows the only six weeks of effort that went into writing it. The style and tempo of the writing seem to change in the middle of the book as well. The first half seems as if it were written by someone other than Chuck Palahniuk and about midway he finds the unique voice that defines his style. Part of this style is usually a wild premise that requires a suspension of disblief on the part of the reader, but I found that I could not maintain that suspension of disbelief for much of this story. Also, Palahniuk seems to mock much of the whole new-agey, Wiccan practices while at the same time validating them through the action and storyline. This was the main inconsistancy for me. Some really good and witty writing in many parts, but not enough to keep me going like in much of his previous efforts.
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