A review by lucasgarner
Adjustment Day by Chuck Palahniuk

2.0

The first 1/3 of the book got me excited that the old Chuck was back. The one who was able to combine taboo subjects, creative storytelling, and satire perfectly into one story. All of the makings of a classic Palahniuk were there. But then we reach the middle and it kind of ramps up sharply, and then takes a huge dive south. The last 150 or so pages of this book are like a bunch of two or three page scraps of a story that might have been better, but needed much more work. It became a convoluted mess of characters you rarely see so you can never really follow their journey fully, or random anecdotes that hardly add much to the overall plot. It's a shame, and I'm still going to wait impatiently for another Invisible Monsters, Lullaby, or Rant.