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3.4 AVERAGE
3.4 AVERAGE
Not for the faint of heart, fascinating and terrible and funny. I wanted a scary book for the Halloween season and this was on my shelf just waiting for me.
DNF
Best way to describe this book. That conversation you have with your horror loving best friend, you discuss Serbian Film, Irreversible, The Human Centipede and your friend eulogises about all the hidden messages and how the film is a take on modern day society, but in the end you agree that those films are actually garbage and its just the two or three shocking scenes that everyone talks about. THAT is this book. Sure I laughed at the foot massage assassins and giggled along at the swimming pool pump masturbator but after that it gets dark with tales of rape and paedophilia . So there are 20 or so of these short stories held together with some truly awful poetry and some incredibly boring in between bits. I would recommend this book to absolutely NO ONE.
Best way to describe this book. That conversation you have with your horror loving best friend, you discuss Serbian Film, Irreversible, The Human Centipede and your friend eulogises about all the hidden messages and how the film is a take on modern day society, but in the end you agree that those films are actually garbage and its just the two or three shocking scenes that everyone talks about. THAT is this book. Sure I laughed at the foot massage assassins and giggled along at the swimming pool pump masturbator but after that it gets dark with tales of rape and paedophilia . So there are 20 or so of these short stories held together with some truly awful poetry and some incredibly boring in between bits. I would recommend this book to absolutely NO ONE.
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I would have preferred this as a short story collection as the individual tales were grotesquely great, but I found the overarching storyline to be incredibly lame.
My least favorite Palahniuk book so far. Perhaps a little too gruesome?
I only gave this book two stars instead of three because it could not hold my attention. I never finished it. The first couple of stories were disturbing and icky, but not all that interesting to me. The characters seemed to be getting more or less what they deserved and I had a hard time being sympathetic. Thus, I had no motivation to wade through the scatological content hoping for something interesting to come up later.
took me a while but i did like it. there were ups and downs on the short stories but in general, a lot of them did intrigued me or really left me at a whoa or wow state.
would read more of his works.
would read more of his works.
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Jag ser att detta nog kan vara en väldigt bra, välskriven bok… men den var bara inte för mig!
dark
fast-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