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Apsēstie by Chuck Palahniuk

60 reviews

challenging dark tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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DID NOT FINISH: 3%

DNF'ed at the first writer's story. I should've DNFed sooner given
one female character's description is only how big her breasts are and a character remarks that Anne Frank didn't have it so bad…

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challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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challenging dark mysterious tense medium-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

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dark reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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dark medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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dark tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Considering how disturbing the content of this book is I don't think I could effectively give it a rating. That's how I feel about a lot of these "kinds" of books (if you could categorise them into a subgenre) - super super grotesque and fucked up novels basically. I did enjoy it although I had to stop several times to keep going.

My favourite stories were from Saint Gut-Free, Baroness Frostbite, Deputy Denial and Miss Sneezy. 

The novel was despicably and disgustingly delightful but the afterword was the most emotionally impactful experience I had reading this. 

I would never recommend this book to anyone; it's something that each person has to seek out on their own, on their own terms.

P.S. I definitely missed some content warnings. Please tread with caution.

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dark medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I’m definitely not a fan. It started out as a criticism of reality TV and ended up just falling into the same traps it claimed to be taking issue with.
Also, I was very much not a fan of that one very transphobic chapter. Coming from a cis man, it felt like less of a serious examination on the horrors of transphobic violence and more a voyeuristic, sadistic fantasy for himself and his cis readers to indulge in.

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dark funny medium-paced
Loveable characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

one of my desert island books

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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