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Summary: Interesting.
Review: I had high expectations for this book after reading and seeing Fight Club. It has a great twist in the end, but between the pages the story seemed drawn out and I eventually became bored of the stories on masturbation and sex. It wasn't a waste of time, but I probably won't read it again.
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Summary: A Dearth of Redeeming Character
Review: Don't read this. This is how Chuck Palahniuk's latest deadpan novel begins, and it just gets odder from there. The story of one poor man's journey for self-worth, this book has some very enlightening and amusing moments, such as his description of the first pronography the sex-addicted main character ever sees. I can see the resemblance to Fight Club that other reviewers have noticed, and criticized, but those criticisms fall on deaf ears for me. The characters are very different, although they do share superficial similarities and their goals are the same. However, the generation that I am part of has a dearth of moral character anyway, and it seems that we, more than any other generation, need a reason to thrive, a reason to survive. This book describes a man in the same position as most of the men of any generation born after 1960. We wander aimlessly looking to give our lives some purpose. So, yes, it has similarities to his cult hit, but it has its own unique characteristics which make it enjoyable anyway. I don't know whether to laugh at some parts of this, incredulous at the places you can get a good philosophical question to pose, or to laugh at it, reveling in the insanity that is vintage Palahniuk. In the middle of otherwise plebian circumstances, poor Victor contemplates his existence in the world, and tries to deny who he is. When he finally comes to term with who he is, the rug is pulled out from under him again, and he loses every shred of reality that he has acquired and must rebuild. This patient, relentless journey alone is enough to buy this book. The philosophical questions posed and the witty banter (internal, of course, since Denny and Victor seem rather...dim) make the book a treasure. Don't read it. But if you do, don't expect to be saved. If you are, don't save anyone else. Above all else, don't lend this book! I have already lost one copy of it that way, and don't intend to have to buy it again. But if it gets lost, I will have to shell out the money, grinning all the while.
Harkius
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Summary: It's a bizarre little world we live in.
Review: It's a bizarre little world we live in when biblical fiction and sex addiction can get incorporated into the same dark book. Palanhiuk definitely commands attention with his writing style and his use of repetition. Anyone who liked 'Fight Club' will be enthralled by the quality writing, and appauled by the exaggerated preoccupation with sex this novel has to offer.
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Summary: Not a page turner
Review: I was truly disapointed by this book. They fool you with the cool cover and catchy title into thinking that the book has a good story to tell, but it doesn't. There is no story its just pointless talk and discriptions of crazy people. If your the type of person who likes to hear about nothing but the disfunctional in this world then its a great book for you. If your the type of person that wants a good story to go alone with the disfunctional people then look else where. Not to totaly condem the book I would like to point out that the 2nd chapter is good. Otherwise its just a really bad book with no purpose at all its not even entertaining. You would think a book full of sex addicts would be fun.
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Summary: Bad
Review: This book is bad that's it and that's all. It reads fast but it doesn't make any sort of impact. It is a largely pointless exercise in oddness for oddness sake. The novel doesn't have characters it has little bundles of quirks. It doesn't have a plot it has a series of barely related events that move toward an end but no conclusion. His mom is dieing so he fakes sickness he thinks he might be related to jesus. His friend gets fired. His friend starts building a wall. He ... gets the girl. That doesn't give anything away because their is nothing to give away. THIS IS NOT A STORY.
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Summary: How in the world should i describe this book?
Review: Palahniuk is a truly wonderful author. Choke is a different step from Fight Club, really different but at the same time, it has that pasimistic feel to it. It's not hard read, enough to last one about a week though. Palahniuk's writing makes it seem like Victor the main charecter could be sitting across from you at a cofee shop, telling you his story, it'a that realistic and believable, ah i can't type right now, it's 3:35 am and I need to sleep but of course, i won't, anyway it's a good read. A nice present for the weirdo who sits in the back of the class and reads all the time (like me)
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Summary: Ammmmmmmazing
Review: whitten with amazing imagination, it's one of the best books i've ever read. it's very artistic and sexual and twisted. Every adult with a normal life should read it. it's such an inspiration.
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Summary: don't listen to me
Review: I loved Fight Club and enjoyed Survivor. This one I did not care for. Too many lists of shocking facts, I felt like I was getting beaten over the head with a literary formula. But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
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Summary: Choose and Perish
Review: Gozer the Traveler. He will come in one of the prechosen forms. During the rectification of the vuldronai, the traveler came as a large and moving Tor, then during the third reconcilliation of the last of the mickendri supplicants, Gozer chose a new form for him, that of a giant Slore. Many Schubbs and Zools knew what it was like to be roasted in the depths of the Slore that day, I can tell you. The creature Gozer the Gozarian, Gozer the destructor, forgaseedrahadd the traveler has come. Choose and perish. Choose. Choose the form of the destructor. The choice is made. The traveler has come.
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Summary: Another Excellent book by Chuck
Review: Easy and entertaining read with a nice social subtext, and a wonderfully twisted ending.
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