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isabelkai's review against another edition
dark
funny
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
gossamerwingedgazelle's review against another edition
1.0
Well, I detested the main character when I read Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk. However, after going to the book club and discussing it, the good vibes from the guys there made me feel a lot better about the book. Wouldn't really recommend it to others, though.
rippedcheetah's review against another edition
funny
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
stormblesssedreaper's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
hollidayreadswithme's review
2.0
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Survival was a reread for me and I think it should be a lesson to me to not reread anything that I loved in my youth. Survivor felt like a mishmash of everything that I thought was cool when I was a high schooler. Everything taboo, everything shocking, everything sociopathic. But in the end, it was just a mishmash of religion bashing and Chuck writing about recipes and cleaning It does not stand up to the test of time. I think that this was Chuck Palahniuk’s attempt to replicate Fight Club, to create that same fervor, the same breaking away from the proverbial mold, but it wasn't shocking. It was bad.
The narrator is a tubby ex-member of a Creedish death cult and on its own that as a premise seems like a great idea. It seems like you could go anywhere with that. But it just fell flat trying to make something four-dimensional out of something that wasn't even three-dimensional trying to give stuff then where there just wasn't any and it hurts because it was part of my childhood that I really loved. Chuck Palahniuk has always been one of my favorite writers when anyone ever asks me. but as I've gotten older I feel like, just as I have outgrown YA fiction, I’ve outgrown Chuck Palahniuk because it's the same old diatribe society bashing. I don't know what he would say about our world now. With the selfies, and the selfie sticks and the fake butt implants but it wouldn't be kind.
In Survivor, we have a woman named Fertility but that's not her real name. Her name is Gwen and she charges men to have sex with her in order for her to get pregnant. But she's barren. So does that speaks you are free to do? What we want to have sex whenever we want is that a bad thing is that why she's punished at the end of the movie with fertility. The time to do everything all at once. And at the end of the day, it just fell flat, I didn't enjoy it. I kept stopping the audiobook because I literally wanted to read anything else and that's really sad and I'm sorry about that.
All in all, I give this 2 out of 5 it would be a 1 star but nostalgia’s sake, I added a star.
2019 ATY Challenge - A reread of a favorite book
Survival was a reread for me and I think it should be a lesson to me to not reread anything that I loved in my youth. Survivor felt like a mishmash of everything that I thought was cool when I was a high schooler. Everything taboo, everything shocking, everything sociopathic. But in the end, it was just a mishmash of religion bashing and Chuck writing about recipes and cleaning It does not stand up to the test of time. I think that this was Chuck Palahniuk’s attempt to replicate Fight Club, to create that same fervor, the same breaking away from the proverbial mold, but it wasn't shocking. It was bad.
The narrator is a tubby ex-member of a Creedish death cult and on its own that as a premise seems like a great idea. It seems like you could go anywhere with that. But it just fell flat trying to make something four-dimensional out of something that wasn't even three-dimensional trying to give stuff then where there just wasn't any and it hurts because it was part of my childhood that I really loved. Chuck Palahniuk has always been one of my favorite writers when anyone ever asks me. but as I've gotten older I feel like, just as I have outgrown YA fiction, I’ve outgrown Chuck Palahniuk because it's the same old diatribe society bashing. I don't know what he would say about our world now. With the selfies, and the selfie sticks and the fake butt implants but it wouldn't be kind.
In Survivor, we have a woman named Fertility but that's not her real name. Her name is Gwen and she charges men to have sex with her in order for her to get pregnant. But she's barren. So does that speaks you are free to do? What we want to have sex whenever we want is that a bad thing is that why she's punished at the end of the movie with fertility. The time to do everything all at once. And at the end of the day, it just fell flat, I didn't enjoy it. I kept stopping the audiobook because I literally wanted to read anything else and that's really sad and I'm sorry about that.
All in all, I give this 2 out of 5 it would be a 1 star but nostalgia’s sake, I added a star.
2019 ATY Challenge - A reread of a favorite book
sestho's review against another edition
dark
funny
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Wow. Continually love Palahniuk’s writing. His devices and wacky subjects/worlds. This one was a great social commentary!
nb_leftist's review
dark
funny
lighthearted
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
I think Chuck Palahniuk has a writing style that works well over shorter books but both Fight Club and Survivor get repetitive. At a punt the 250th page it gets to the point of “yeah it’s a disturbing shock factor thing” over and over again.
The actual storyline seems very Vonnegut-esque, so did Fight Club. I like it but like I said (not to be repetitive), it’s a little bit repetitive.
The actual storyline seems very Vonnegut-esque, so did Fight Club. I like it but like I said (not to be repetitive), it’s a little bit repetitive.
onikitaaa's review against another edition
dark
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
agentbookly's review against another edition
dark
emotional
funny
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
4.5
sidus's review against another edition
dark
funny
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5