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2.78 AVERAGE
2.78 AVERAGE
I love Chuck Palahniuk but I am still trying to figure out what tf I just read. The summary called it a satire, but of what??
adventurous
dark
funny
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
They’re fascinating subjects, aren’t they? The sublime, deathless, hirsute Gorilla of Borneo. The natural world only SEEMS imperiled, until you actually SEE the natural world & in it's gargantuan vast environment, that makes you, man, such a tiny and insignificant protein at the Top looking down on the labelled, the marginalized, the bestial animal so feral of tooth and claw to rend; and animals often hungry; I was picturing turkey vultures, or the endangered condor whosE only found in the Grand Canyon, por ejemplo. When a birds gut is heavy , I heard that birds have hollow bones, do they fly that high, and with a bird’s eye view of the far-stretching valley, the rolling hills that are impenetrable for our habitation, since you’re niche is at home, or where you’ve laid camp, but living and surviving in these simultaneously 🐿️ ly tenebrous mute or muffled to supine silence so deep to listen to a pen drop, or a disquieting rustle in the bushes. Just when you think you’re camping alone, it’s David Attenborough rubbing one out.
“This new entanglement is a lurching, blonde gorilla, I’ve no doubt. Raw ones masseur, robust masseur. Some beast with nothing more than his long strands of DNA to recommend him. And it’s all the more a shame because we’ve only just got the morning-room chandelier back in working order.”
This book is like a Jerzy Kozińskyan diamond in the rough. One might walk into a library anywhere in America, maybe to browse the fiction, or use the computer for bout a hour. There’s nothing available from say, Hubert Selby Jr., they tell me, they tell me there are some novels that are too graphic and too explicit for public access, and these ruddy muddled daytrippers & nightcrawlers shouldn’t be reading certain things, & they should not be reading them because they might get ideas. Ideas about UFO abductions? Ideas about performing an Alabama Hotpocket on their cousin, whatever that is. I wasn’t in the band. I was in choir so I know what a glottal stop is. A glottal stop is when you briefly close the glottis to obstruct airflow. I know hobos who read David Sedaris, James Clavell & can talk about Alestair Crowley for hours.
“Mummy with her newlywed glow, her honeymoon glow, she’s mutton dressed as lamb, she is.”
It's like a clockwork 🟠or it’s like 🚆spotting with Giraffes. 🦒No, it’s setting is Austria, so there are kangs 🦘and Gorillaz, and it has Pearl S. Buck… but there’s one thang this book doesn’t have, and that thang is forever.
“This new entanglement is a lurching, blonde gorilla, I’ve no doubt. Raw ones masseur, robust masseur. Some beast with nothing more than his long strands of DNA to recommend him. And it’s all the more a shame because we’ve only just got the morning-room chandelier back in working order.”
This book is like a Jerzy Kozińskyan diamond in the rough. One might walk into a library anywhere in America, maybe to browse the fiction, or use the computer for bout a hour. There’s nothing available from say, Hubert Selby Jr., they tell me, they tell me there are some novels that are too graphic and too explicit for public access, and these ruddy muddled daytrippers & nightcrawlers shouldn’t be reading certain things, & they should not be reading them because they might get ideas. Ideas about UFO abductions? Ideas about performing an Alabama Hotpocket on their cousin, whatever that is. I wasn’t in the band. I was in choir so I know what a glottal stop is. A glottal stop is when you briefly close the glottis to obstruct airflow. I know hobos who read David Sedaris, James Clavell & can talk about Alestair Crowley for hours.
“Mummy with her newlywed glow, her honeymoon glow, she’s mutton dressed as lamb, she is.”
It's like a clockwork 🟠or it’s like 🚆spotting with Giraffes. 🦒No, it’s setting is Austria, so there are kangs 🦘and Gorillaz, and it has Pearl S. Buck… but there’s one thang this book doesn’t have, and that thang is forever.
It is really hard to review this book. The writing is great. I’m not mentally in a space where I was going to really enjoy some Chuck content so that’s on me. It’s either a 4 or a 3 or a 2 and I’m not sure which.
Had some funny bits but overall wasn’t my jam
dark
funny
reflective
fast-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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Incest, Murder
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
DNF @ 35%. I’m going to have to stop telling people Chuck Palahniuk is my favorite author. At this point it’s become embarrassing. I will say, this book taught me that it’s possible to be nauseous and overwhelmingly bored at the same time.
I only got about a quarter through this book - it was terrible.
Too vulgar and over the top.
Don’t waste your time.
Too vulgar and over the top.
Don’t waste your time.