A review by lucasgarner
Not Forever But For Now by Chuck Palahniuk

1.0

This book just feels…desperate. I’m a long time fan of Palahniuk, and I really enjoyed his previous novel, but this one carried the recent unfortunate trend of his of trying to be stylistically convoluted with no payoff. I shouldn’t even say style, as I would reserve that for his older works, now it’s just a shtick in the same way a grandparent may say racist things and everyone just awkwardly chuckles because you can’t change it and that’s just “their thing,” but also why you don’t want others around them. I’m fine with Palahniuk being exhaustingly edgy, but there needs to be substance to support the chaos of rape, murder, incest, etc. that pervades this book. Instead, we are left with an annoying narrator and an author trying to be more clever than what is warranted.