Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

14 reviews

doomluz's review

challenging dark funny 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

4.5

This is the second book I've read by Palahniuk. I read Fight Club years ago and forgot how I liked Palahniuk’s prose. The plot was wild and kind of gross at times, but I liked the nonlinear story-telling and the plot twists.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Drug use, Sexual content, Medical content, Transphobia, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Sexual assault and Adult/minor relationship

vegetablemathematics's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

Minor: Gun violence, Homophobia, Sexual assault, and Transphobia

whentheresteeth's review against another edition

dark funny reflective 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

"Find what you're afraid of most, and go live there."
I really deeply enjoyed listening to this book. It is infused with satire, which makes the harsh realities that it deals with almost comical, but that is also what makes them appear so real.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Addiction, Body horror, Car accident, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, and Child death

Moderate: Abandonment, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Gaslighting, Police brutality, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Stalking, and Outing

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Transphobia, and Vomit

illustrated_insomniac's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

 what I loved most about this book was its transgressive nature - the ideas of beauty, gender, sexuality & identity as a whole are explored & questioned. Palahniuk has such a particular way of writing that is poetically existential & utterly thought-provoking. 

another aspect of this book that I found intriguing was the way it would jump back & forth to different times. it acted almost like a puzzle for me to complete as I read. & because of that, it kept me hooked and unable to put the book down. 

 overall I rate the book a 4 stars, only because the jumping back & forth was a /little/ confusing for me at times - not to mention the different aliases the characters went by! & because of that, it's not the type of story you can read a chapter of & leave for a while before returning. 

I wholeheartedly recommend this book to anybody - although written 22 years ago, it still holds so much validity in today's society - probably more now than it did then.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual assault