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And for some parts it is but he beats the sex to death and the filth. I saw Fight Club the movie, so I thought this guy might have some good books. yuk `like some adolescent being dirty just to be dirty. I went to get his latest "Pygmy", but a reviewer suggested if one hadn't read any of his books to not start with it because it was written in broken english for effect. ok, so I get choke, it looked interesting enough.
I'm adding all of his books to my wish list. This was my introduction to Chuck Palahmiuk in print form (I'd seen Fight Club just like the rest of the free world). Even the small characters were interesting in this great story.
:) Good read. This was definitely another great story bu Chuck, but honestly it reminded a lot of the same themes that were discussed in fight club. But that being said, this has a brilliant way of describing the way the most paculiar relationships have of finding each other.
Choke leads you on a path that you assume is going somewhere, and although it has many surprises, it fails to make any ultimate point.I'd buy it again. I liked this book, it was interesting, twisted, and different. I did not like it as much as Survivor though, but enough to buy another of his books.
Choke is a deep piece of literature, challenging the concept of why we attempt to get ahead in life, and questioning just how much we benefit (or suffer) from our knowledge. He chokes on food at restaurants so that people will save him, and then feel obligated to send him money so he can pay for his mother's elder-care. From being continually kidnapped by his crazy mother as a small boy, to living for the moment, to finding a direction for his life, Victor grows dramatically during the story, even if it does not always seem that way. While set against the surreal backdrop of "beauty industry terrorism," artificial insemination of Jesus' DNA, and life in Colonial Dunsboro, Victor speaks to the internalized struggle to know oneself in our modern times, and finding the courage not to accept the world for what it is. He is a worker at a colonial theme park, who has no respect for the history his portrays. "You gain power by pretending to be weak.
Palahniuk is not dependant on chronological order when he writes, instead shifting between different periods in the life of his anti-hero, Victor Mancini. But more than swindling money out of restaurant patrons, he makes them feel like heroes, validating their need to say that someone owes them his/her life. By contrast, you make people feel so strong. But most of all, Victor Mancini is a savior to the downtrodden (and the chronically confused). You save people by letting them save you." Choke is an excellent book, if a mildly confusing read.
Victor is a sex-addict, who goes to sexual addiction recovery classes to get action with the other students.
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