Page turner and funny (Palahniuk is amazingly observant)

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	• Survivor Chuck Palahniuk Blackstone Audiobooks, 2006 average customer review:based on 378 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Another victory for Chuck

This is a really great book, filled with the prose indicative of Chuck Palahniuk (by the way...no idea how to pronounce that). The story is exactly the kind of thing that makes you wonder how a guy that looks so normal can write something so twisted. I couldn't give it five stars though; I kept waiting for some really unexpected twist at the end. I don't want to give it away the ending for those that haven't read the book, but I felt he could have done more.

Inconsistent

I found this novel inconsistent and not as stylish as many of Chuck's other novels (makes sense, though, as this was only his second novel, the follow up to the hugely successful Fight Club). Tender Branson, the former cult member turned media messiah, is the last of his kind after Heaven's Gate-like mass suicides takes place in the cult's compound. I enjoyed the first half of the book the most, with Tender's innocence still somewhat intact as he cleans up a wealthy household and gives us the background of his upbringing. His transformation into a manipulated and manipulating media sensation seems too much of a reach for someone with such a humble and conservative upbringing. His controlling agent seems too over-the-top, and Tender's acquiescence to all of the agent's wild schemes seems a bit contrived. Tender becomes less and less sympathetic throughout the narrative and other characters are just plain superficial. Love-interest Fertility is shallow and her gifts of prediction are a little too convenient for Tender's escalation to fame. His maniacal brother Adam doesn't add all that much substance to the story other than the great revelation as to how the cult developed Tender's extreme fear of sex.

Overall, I liked the original concept, but wasn't entirely thrilled with how the story developed. It had its humor and its typical Chuck shock-value. It was quick read that won't make you feel like you've wasted your time, but it wasn't Chuck's best.

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Page turner and funny (Palahniuk is amazingly observant)

This is only the 3rd of Palahniuk's books I have read. This was the first real page turner, and it was full of humorous observations and satire about every day America. Choke and this one are highly recommended. Fight Club...well interestingly, the book might not be as good as the film. I cannot wait for Survivor to be made into a movie!

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Book arrived quickly and in great condition. I would buy from this seller in the future.

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From the author of the cult sensation Fight Club (now a major motion picture starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter) comes Survivor.

"A turbo-charged, deliciously manic satire of contemporary American life." --Newsday

"The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage," according to the "been there, done that" wisdom of Tender Branson, last surviving member of the Creedish Death Cult. At the opening of Chuck Palahniuk's hilariously unnerving second novel, Tender is cruising on autopilot, 39,000 feet up, dictating the whole of his life story into Flight 2039's "black box" in the final moments before crashing into the vast Australian outback.

Not since Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night has there been as dark and telling a satire on the wages of fame and the bedrock lunacy of the modern world. Wickedly incisive and mesmerizing, Survivor is Chuck Palahniuk at his deadpan peak.

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