A lethal lullaby

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	• Lullaby Chuck Palahniuk Anchor, 2002 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 267 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

loooooooove it!

i didn't know what to expect, and i dont want to give anything away. what i can tell you is that i could not put this book down!!! I have had friends read it, and thet loved it too! I can't wait to read more from Mr. Chuck Palahniuk!!!

what a deal!

on the back of this book it says that it costs $13.95 in the united states, and $21.00 in canada. i got it for 75 cents at a garage sale. i just thought that i'd let people know that garage sales can be good places to get books.

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A lethal lullaby

My rating is based more so on the creative literary talents of the nihilistic author Chuck Palahniuk. He fabricates a symbolic commentary on the failures of society in the guise of a black comedy. Palahniuk uses a gritty no holds barred style that touches subject matter not for the faint of heart. He creates a bizarre array of characters to expouse his views. He fascinatingly incorporates ceaseless clusters of factoids germane to the theories he proposes within this outlandish novel.

Middle aged journalist Carl Streator is involved in a newspaper series concerning Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. While conducting interviews with unfortunate families touched by these tragedies, he uncovers a common denominator. Each tiny victim had been read to from a book "Poems and Rhymes Around the World". More specifically a lullaby or African culling song found on page 27, were the last words heard by the babies. Streator soon realizes that the mere utterance or thinking the words of the lullaby results in immediate death.

This revelation has him seek out a Helen Hoover Boyle, a real estate agent specializing in the sale and quick resale of haunted houses. Boyle had also lost a child to SIDS as did Streator, and had knowledge of the culling song's effect.

Streator, unable to contain his thoughts of the lullaby, goes on an unintended killing spree and needs Boyle's help to control himself. Together along with Boyle's assistant Mona, a Wiccan witch and her hippyish boyfriend Oyster, who places slanderous advertisements to bring down institutions that are ecologically insensitive, they all go on a cross country excursion. Their goal is to locate all copies of the lullaby and destroy them. They are also searching for a fabled grimoire, a book of spells that they hope to use to alter societal norms and evoke change.

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great

Palahniuk is my favorite writer by far. This novel was another great one, with imagery, odd facts, and unexpected turns. I suppose Palahniuk writes for intelligent readers, and I don't think the below-average person would have a clue what his books are about. If you're stupid, don't read his books. You won't get it. Watch Fight Club, the movie, a few more times and act like you're a huge fan. Then again, if you're stupid, you probably don't read at all.

strange...

Although i enjoyed it,some of the stuff in his books are off the wall! I like his use of terms and his little "fun facts". A good read if your a chuck fan...one of his better books. (i've only read three so far)

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