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Title: Choke by CHUCK PALAHNIUK ISBN: 0-385-72092-0 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 11 June, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.92 (301 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Outrageous, and surprisingly funny satire!
Comment: I had read "Fight Club" and "Survivor" before I read "Choke." I love "Fight Club" and "Survivor" and Chuck Palahniuk was already one of my favorite writers, but "Choke" kind of ultimately verified things.
As you read this book, you have a great sympathy for the narrator, a poor Victor Mancini, whose mother is dying (he's not sure if this saddens him or not). He also works at a Colonial Theme park set in 1734 called Colonial Dusboro where he meets his best friend, Denny. He is however, according to Victor, a frien out of necessity. It is also about his relationship with a docotr caring for his mother named Paige Marshall who says she can save his mother if he has sex with her. Oh, one more thing, he pretends to choke to death on food and gets money from the people who save him.
Like "Survivor" your sympathy is fully engaged from the first page. He starts narrating the book saying "If you're going to read this, don't bother." He is basicaly saying his life isn't important. It is a sad book.
It is also, like "Fight Club" an extremely outrageous novel. It has its share of humor, most of which occur while he cruises his sexaholics meetings.
This is a very funny, very entertaining book. It examines relationships, it examines life, and it is sad, outrageous, funny, and brilliant. It has a realyl awesome twist in the end. It's a must read.
Rating: 4
Summary: If you are looking for a beach read, move on...
Comment: This is a great book, though it isn't entirely enjoyable for the plot, nor is it for the characters. The plot is jumpy and unrealistic at best. The characters are, unless you are an OCD sex addict, completely unrelatable. But that's not what this book is about. To glean any pleasure, you have to be ready to move past the gross-out sex and bodily function narratives. It is about the delving into the post-modern subtext within. The call for self-examination as well as examination of the world around us almost jumps off the page and bites you on the face. For the message, "make the journey count because goals are futile otherwise", to be as powerful as it is in this work, the extreme nature of the book is almost necessary.
I see a great many complaints as to the book's content on these reviews. So, if you are a wee bit squeemish in your pursuit of intellectual stimulation, pick up something else.
Rating: 5
Summary: Not for sissies.
Comment: And I wouldn't give this one to mom or dad as a gift. Perfect for most men...might be offensive to women, although I was not. I thought it was hysterical. My teenage daughter (not knowing the book's content) came home from school and told me her (male) social studies teacher was reading the same book. I almost asked her if he was hot, but then I walked it off.
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Title: Survivor : A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk ISBN: 0385498721 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 04 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk ISBN: 0385722192 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk ISBN: 0393319296 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk ISBN: 0805062971 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Diary: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk ISBN: 0385509472 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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