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Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

13 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

shawn_martines's review against another edition

dark funny sad fast-paced

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

2.75

This book is ahead of its time, but not for everyone: a story of self discovery written with LGBTQIA+ characters but full of Gay Wrongs instead of gay rights. This story is written in a way that the message could be championed by the wrong people and I could not get that out of my head. I appreciate the humour and the fast paced adventure, but this book quickly jumps into a statement that is drawn out long enough to fumble a safe landing. I left the story thinking, "what did I just read?" but not in an awestruck way.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Ableism, Biphobia, Pedophilia, Self harm, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Drug abuse, Car accident, Body horror, Grief, Sexual assault, Dysphoria, Drug use, Blood, Gore, Death, and Fire/Fire injury

cwzw's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

A Chuck P book with more than one female character

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Drug use, and Gore

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

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

alexandrias_library's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

updownwrong's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Invisible Monsters is the best Chuck Palahniuk novel I've read yet. It's full of twists and turns, awful yet loveable yet loathsome characters, and outlandish yet almost plausible situations that make your jaw drop. While I don't think the book is as shocking as it would have been 20 years ago, I think it's an essential read for anyone who enjoys modern satire. Bonus points if you're a former emo kid who underlined all of the lines AFYCSO references. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Gore, Toxic relationship, Violence, Self harm, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Medical content, Addiction, Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Death, Deadnaming, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Ableism, Child abuse, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Sexual violence, and Outing

eyesofcrows's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Confusing to start with because of the nonlinear timeline but God does it reward you when you start connecting the timeline. Though there’s stuff about homophobia and transphobia, it doesn’t pedal it as the center. There’s so much more and you honestly have to detach from it all to get to what this story is: people connected like vines and weeds around each other. What a fun book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Homophobia, and Body horror

Moderate: Gore, Grief, Drug use, and Dysphoria

Minor: Deadnaming, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Transphobia, and Gun violence

hunkydory's review

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Self harm, Blood, Violence, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Drug use, Alcohol, Cursing, Gore, Homophobia, and Medical content

Moderate: Infidelity and Emotional abuse

Minor: Deadnaming, Dysphoria, Outing, Adult/minor relationship, and Transphobia

spookyspice's review

challenging dark medium-paced

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

3.5

I know people think Guts from Haunted is the most messed up thing Palahniuk has written but from what I’ve read of his work this is actually the most disturbing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Body horror, Violence, Transphobia, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Mental illness, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Gore, Suicide attempt, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Drug use, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Sexual content, Self harm, Medical trauma, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Deadnaming, Gun violence, Homophobia, Car accident, Death, and Grief