Choke
Registered by Oldbroad of Grapeview, Washington USA on 3/20/2005
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
4 journalers for this copy...
"...a powerful and hilarious novel about love and strife between mothers and sons, the addictive power of sex, the terrors of aging, the ugle truth about historical theme parks, and much else..."
Postal release to sissybird in Seattle.
yay! can not wait to read this!
there was enough about this book (the writing style, the idea)that kept me enaged to give it a high rating. a quick fun read. pretty imaginative.
off to jenluvsbooks as part of a trade. enjoy!
Received in the mail today. Looking forward to reading it. Thanks!
What a bizarre story. The characterized were all whacked-out! I'm not sure if I liked it or not...still trying to decide.
Mailing off to Jare from his wishlist.
Yipee, this came to me today!! I've been wanting to read Palahniuk for a while, thanks so much for sharing this! This sounds great!
From the inside jacket:
Victor Mancini, a dropout from medical school, has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mother's elder care: Pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who "saves you" will feel responsible for the rest of his life. Multiply that a couple of hundred times and you generate a healthy flow of checks, week in, week out. Between fake choking gigs, victor works at Colonial Dunsboro with a motley group of losers and stoners trapped in 1734, cruises sex addiction groups for action ("You put twenty sexaholics around a table night after night and don't be surprised"), and visits his mother, whose anarchic streak made his childhood a mad whirl and whose Alzheimer's disease now hides what may be the startling truth about his (possibly divine?) parentage. An antihero for our deranged times, Victor finds that his whole existence is a struggle to wrest an identity from overwhelming forces. His creator, Chuck Palahniuk is the visionary we need and the satirist we deserve.
From the inside jacket:
Victor Mancini, a dropout from medical school, has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mother's elder care: Pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who "saves you" will feel responsible for the rest of his life. Multiply that a couple of hundred times and you generate a healthy flow of checks, week in, week out. Between fake choking gigs, victor works at Colonial Dunsboro with a motley group of losers and stoners trapped in 1734, cruises sex addiction groups for action ("You put twenty sexaholics around a table night after night and don't be surprised"), and visits his mother, whose anarchic streak made his childhood a mad whirl and whose Alzheimer's disease now hides what may be the startling truth about his (possibly divine?) parentage. An antihero for our deranged times, Victor finds that his whole existence is a struggle to wrest an identity from overwhelming forces. His creator, Chuck Palahniuk is the visionary we need and the satirist we deserve.
Sat up late last night to finish this book! What a good book. I'm glad that I chose this as my first Palahniuk novel to read. Must say I'm hooked. Ok, so on various email lists, I have seen him referred to as PalahniYuck... and I can see why, his stuff definitely isn't for everybody. But it's for me. Love his style! The story was great, the ending was not quite what I was expecting, but in a good way. Thanks again to Jenluvsbooks for passing this on to me!
Something happened to my release notes, editing to make new ones
