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deus_ex_machina_ 's review for:
Invisible Monsters
by Chuck Palahniuk
I could not get into this book. Starting with the "original" writing style, which not only gets boring after a few chapters, but unnecessarily confusing too.
It's written in a non linear way (nothing wrong with that), but the author properly hides aspects from the story when doing these time jumps, just for the sake of plot twisting a few chapters later. I call this cheap writing.
The story overall (once it's complete) is a complete fuckery. Not going into spoilers, but it's just... too silly, too immature, too self commiserate.
Every page had a plot twist, or a revelation. Or simply put a WTF just happened moment. It's really, really hard to feel any sort of connection with the characters. When everything is not what it seems, half way through the book you simple stop caring.
It doesn't help each character is a worthless piece of human being. Getting involved in these characters world is going down a path of deception and (self) misery.
By the end of the book, when the whole story gets pull together, I could only get a sour taste. It's unsatisfactory, it's unnecessarily complicated, it's just...a mess, a whole mess.
It feels this whole book is a teenage overacting soap opera drama, being over the top and over reacting drama something that plagues each adolescent life (hopefully it's just a phase that dies out into adulthood for most people). What age was the author when he wrote this? I can definitely see young adults/teenagers loving the drama depicted here.
Perhaps this was Chuck's intention all along. It just didn't do anything for me.
It's written in a non linear way (nothing wrong with that), but the author properly hides aspects from the story when doing these time jumps, just for the sake of plot twisting a few chapters later. I call this cheap writing.
The story overall (once it's complete) is a complete fuckery. Not going into spoilers, but it's just... too silly, too immature, too self commiserate.
Every page had a plot twist, or a revelation. Or simply put a WTF just happened moment. It's really, really hard to feel any sort of connection with the characters. When everything is not what it seems, half way through the book you simple stop caring.
It doesn't help each character is a worthless piece of human being. Getting involved in these characters world is going down a path of deception and (self) misery.
By the end of the book, when the whole story gets pull together, I could only get a sour taste. It's unsatisfactory, it's unnecessarily complicated, it's just...a mess, a whole mess.
It feels this whole book is a teenage overacting soap opera drama, being over the top and over reacting drama something that plagues each adolescent life (hopefully it's just a phase that dies out into adulthood for most people). What age was the author when he wrote this? I can definitely see young adults/teenagers loving the drama depicted here.
Perhaps this was Chuck's intention all along. It just didn't do anything for me.