Diary: A Novel

Rating:
Summary: horrible..
Review: I really like the cover, with all those red roses but I felt horrible reading it! I don't think I will ever read anything similar. What a horrible story! I am not sure if this is the style of such stories, but it is so unbelieveable to the degree that you think the characters are either not mature or devils.

It is like a science fiction plus horror movie, you can certainly predict the outcome though it is dull and pretentious. Some messages appear commenting on one kind of rich people's lives, but I don't think they belong to our century. You think with all the civilization and the development in science and computers, people are skeptical and challenging, but this story shows that human are so naive to look for answers and defend what they own, even to be responsible for their own children!


I would have enjoyed it more if it was the story of a poor girl married to a rich guy who suddenly goes into a coma and then the wife finds herself alone raising her daughter and protecting her from her evil grandparents. This is just the simple version of the story without the additional features where she unveils the truth about her marriage and that island!



Rating:
Summary: It's getting old
Review: I'm going to keep this brief and just put down the most important things that I feel made this book a total clunker.

1.) The little repetition thing was kind of cute and quirky the first time you read a Palahniuk book. By now, it's just become ridiculous. It takes an almost superhuman effort not to roll your eyes each time you see "Just for the record" and "The weather today is..." The weather today is hackneyed with a strong chance of pretentions drivel.

2.) The book's protagonist is either a total moron, or Pahlaniuk forgot he was writing this book from her point of view. Misty seems to hear all of these important details that would, in any real human being, arouse suspicion. We know that she hears these details because she records them in her diary, that is, the novel itself. But she rarely, if ever, seems to ponder what she's heard or how strange the townspeople seem to be acting.

She's also quite whiney, with sentence after sentence of "Poor me." I wasn't expecting overblown heroic qualities in a Palahniuk protagonist, but honestly, I was hoping she would hurry up and die or stop writing in her diary. Either one would do.

4.) This is the last one and it's kind of a spoiler in some ways, but not too much of one. You might think that the last page of the book offers an interesting twist to the story, right? Nah. You know what it really does? It gives Palahniuk a tongue-in-cheek way of suggesting that anyone who criticizes this book is evil. Because of course, we WANT this book to be read by as many people as possible, right? It's only the right thing to do. So to reveal it for what it is must mean that you're one of the bad people trying to... Well, you know if you've read the book.

Skip this one. Read Survivor or Fight Club.