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Summary: C'mon, It's Chuck!
Review: From a writing perspective, CHOKE is another spin on the writing style of FIGHT CLUB. It's got a lot of the same narrative tricks and polish, including stressed non-linearity, catchphrases, "insider info", and of course, a decent twist ending. But if you loved FIGHT CLUB, you will equally love CHOKE. If you're just dabbling, you'll still appreciate the story for being visceral, different than the rest of the work on the market, and definitely thought provoking. Choke has a pace that makes your typical MTV video seem lame and boring. It's an explosive razor sandwich of flavours, and guaranteed to make your eyebrows raise at least once every few minutes. Palahniuk delivers.
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Summary: If you're going to read this , don't bother.
Review: brilliant may not be the right word but it's the first that comes to mind.
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Summary: Fly Paper
Review: I've said it once and I'll say it again: I do not enjoy reading fly paper. Since Fight Club, Chuck's artistic integrity has taken a pretty hard blow--it's on the ground for the count and nearing its last breath. "Cohesive" and "coherent" are no longer in the guy's vocabulary. With this knock out, I'd say Palahniuk is strong evidence that Zoloft causes mental retardation.
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Summary: Great Read
Review: I really enjoyed this book, but I do believe that you have to be a Fight Club fan to appreciate this book. Like Fight Club, it is very dark, but very well written. I read this book in one sitting and highly recommend it!
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Summary: Recommended Read
Review: I highly recommend this book as an individual work very distinct to Chuck Plahniuk's style, and an overall enjoyable experience. I laughed aloud repeatedly while reading this book and I spent a lot of time thinking about it when I was finished. This will probably be a movie some day so I suggest you read it before it does, that way you can brag to everybody about how you read it before it was popular.
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Summary: "Perhaps his best?'
Review: It is difficult to review Palahniuks work. While compelling and narrative, his books have an eerie emptiness about them. There are always several stories within the story. In this story Victor Mancini works in a replica early colonial village. All of the village employees are drug or sex addicts. Victors best friend, Denny also works there, he is hopelessly addicted to masturbating. Victors neurotic mother lives in an expensive convalescent center, so victor fakes choking to death in every restaurant to pity customers into giving him money. Victor goes to sexaholic meetings to pick up women for sex. He tells of his mothers erratic and abusive behavior towards him when he was young, etc. etc., well you get the idea. If you are into twisted tales, cool. If not, leave this book alone, don't read it. You may be sorry.
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Summary: I think Chuck "Choke"d
Review: The jacket lured me in but I can't say the author delivered the goods. Incredibly depressing, gross and bizarre characters and behavior doesn't make for an interesting read. His style can be entertaining but repetition of certain motifs really wears thin even in 256 pages. His attention to detail led to some interesting characterizations but just too weird to really be enjoyable. Think of a young John Irving trying a little to hard to be cute.
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Summary: Just short of genius.
Review: This has been my first Palahniuk read, and I quite enjoyed it. Well written and layered with the same sarcastic narrative and theme movement that I'd expected after viewing Fight Club. Unfortunately, I must say it is certainly not for the timid ... on any subject. The main charactor of the novel is a massive sex addict, and his acts are described quite in detail, which, although it may make you grin or grimace, adds an almost embarassing realism to the book. Definatelty not one worth passing by.
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Summary: Another Look Into Madness
Review: See Schizophrenia. See Dementia. See Hysteria. Chuck Palahniuk's newest novel "Choke" amusing look at a medical quack who sees the world as disintegrated and segmented, therefore needs to be analyzed like any biological disease. From here a treatment can be puesued. Yet, like the main character, Victor, his own needs are seemingly never met, as they stem from, like any good Oedipal Complex, the mother. It is the mother that holds the secret. The secret not only to his past, but also to his own psychological past that keeps interupting his sexual and social gratifications. Palahniuk has written a compelling story with a clever and witty style, one that is modern and fresh. See Fight Club. See Survivor. See Invisible Monsters. I highly reccomend this book for anyone interested into experiential insights to madness of the spiritual kind, as well as prose that has a flair for the darker side of comedy.
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Summary: Not a Fight Club, but a memorable one
Review: After reading Survivor and Fight Club, I was expecting a lot from Choke. But I don't think Palahniuk quite reached it in this one. It had an original idea, but I thought the delivery could have been better...
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