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3.4 AVERAGE
3.4 AVERAGE
dark
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is the literary version of the human centipede... I forced myself to finish this book! If you find it difficult to get into this book, don't do to yourself what I did to me. You will be better for walking away from it rather than seeing the entire ordeal through to the end.
Only nearly fainted once, and it wasn’t from the story Guts. That said, massive content warnings on this one. Too many to think of off the top of my head. Possible trigger warnings too.
Warnings: cannibalism; child abuse; gore; transphobia; rape...
Message me if you want details on what parts to avoid if you want. I won’t give details.
Warnings: cannibalism; child abuse; gore; transphobia; rape...
Message me if you want details on what parts to avoid if you want. I won’t give details.
A much more uneven book than _Fight Club_, there are parts of this that I really like, for their antic cleverness-- it's hard to do better than the frat brother-army rangers who perform drag karaoke to raise funds to bomb Islamic holy sites, and there are a couple other ideas in here that are almost as good. But the interstitial stuff, about "writers" being trapped at a writers retreat is simultaneously too clever and ponderously dull. This would be much better as a book of stories, which is what it reads like but which remains an impulse that it never really surrenders to.
There were parts of this book at that I absolutely could not get through. They were just too gross and too disturbing. However, I do think this is still worth reading. It's a good commentary on human behavior and the absolute depravity we will go to in order to be recognized as suffering more than others, as Palahniuk puts it, "we're in love with our pain." A good read, but not for the faint of heart...if you listen to it on audiobook like I did, don't listen while driving or anything else that requires your undivided attention and consciousness.
The reviewer is a 2009 graduate of Kent State University's Master of Library and Information Sciences program, an alumna of Antioch College, and the author of the blog A Librarian's Life in Books.
The reviewer is a 2009 graduate of Kent State University's Master of Library and Information Sciences program, an alumna of Antioch College, and the author of the blog A Librarian's Life in Books.
I spent a lot of time reading this one in the bathtub at night. It was so good I couldn't put it down, not even to bathe! It's got a unique structure, going in and out of short stories told by a group. The narrator is "we," not one of the characters.
i really enjoued this book!!! it was very very disturbing but made me think about everthing. the most disturbing story i think was the last one it was very very creepy.
Just about the most ridiculous, boring thing I've ever attempted to read. I stopped half way through. Awkwardly written, hackeneyed characters, stupid premise...Just...Stupid.
The best part of the book is the cover. This is the worse book I ever read. I regretted reading the book but I had to finish it just in case it randomly got better. It did not.