Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

14 reviews

venidasdemarzo's review against another edition

dark funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Body shaming, Deadnaming, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Medical content, Transphobia, Body horror, Suicide, Self harm, Outing, Misogyny, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Dysphoria, Adult/minor relationship, Kidnapping, Infidelity, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Mental illness, Death, Eating disorder, Drug use, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Incest and Gun violence

flissrobyn's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

milsforreals's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Medical content, and Transphobia

Moderate: Outing, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, and Gun violence

Minor: Dysphoria, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, and Eating disorder

grunbean's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

Whenever I read a book by Chuck Palahniuk I can only describe my reaction with that one clip of Brian David Gilbert going ‘What the f***’?!’. For me this picked up over half way, but it’s not a bad read. Definitely interesting with plenty of surprises, which is what you’d expect! It just didn’t have its hook in me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gaslighting, Drug use, Dysphoria, Body horror, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic friendship, Outing, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Mental illness, Infidelity, Homophobia, Deadnaming, Child abuse, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Gun violence, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Addiction, Transphobia, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Drug abuse, Death, and Car accident

anicemyth's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

This is the most hateful book I have ever read. I get the feeling Palahniuk hates women and despises trans women especially. I don't recommend this book. Scrolling through kiwifarms will have a similar effect. The ending simply sucked shit. It felt like he got to the climax of the story, when "oh god oh fuck i need to end this somehow" and farted out the most pitiful ending of any novel I've read - ZERO payoff for having read 300 pages of nigh-hatespeech. Disappointing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Homophobia, Sexism, Transphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Ableism, Medical content, Body shaming, Deadnaming, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, and Gore

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Incest

rin_dawg's review against another edition

fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Gun violence and Drug abuse

Minor: Pedophilia and Sexual assault

seethinglloron's review against another edition

dark funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

I love Chuck Palahniuk. I love his prose, his obsession with the filthy and the gory and the absolutely batshit insane. This is all of that wrapped up in a tale about femininity, beauty, desire, gender, sexuality; and unfortunately, it did not land for me. I was with Chuck for much of the novel. Chuck lost me at the end.
I am willing to acquiesce a lot to the theming, the unreliable and unlikeable narrator, the terrible characters and their terrible ideas and their terrible lives. I do it all the time! This just crosses that fine line of absurdity into nonsense. If this novel was a work of art like some of Palahniuk's other work, perhaps I could look past the absolute gall of Palahniuk to write about trans women the way he does. Yes, it's transgressive. Yes, it's not really about trans women, but about something else. No, it doesn't save this train wreck.
Some of it is very fun in the fucked-up way Palahniuk's bullshit is fun, but not enough of it, and not for long enough.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, and Deadnaming

himebittersweet's review against another edition

funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

The ending was heartfelt

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Drug abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Transphobia and Cursing

jeremie's review against another edition

dark funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

This and “Fight Club” should be talked about in the same breath.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Blood, Drug abuse, Medical content, Sexual assault, Xenophobia, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Sexual content, Dysphoria, Addiction, Drug use, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Homophobia, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, and Violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Incest and Eating disorder

abbruzzese's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?

i think i'm done with chuck palahniuk for a long, long time. wish i had read fight club before anything else of his because i'm so sick of reading his writing. it's so repetitive, it's exhausting. and it's all so miserable. satire or not, edgy or not, there's only so much fucking depressive shit a girl can handle and i am maxed out. if you really want to read one of his books, just go with choke and call it a day. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Moderate: Sexual content, Blood, and Gun violence

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Transphobia, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Hate crime, Homophobia, Kidnapping, and Toxic friendship