Glad It Wasn't My First Palahniuk Book

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	• Diary: A Novel Chuck Palahniuk Anchor, 2004 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 193 reviews view larger image
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Amazing

This is the best book I've ever read in my entire life, and believe me, I've read very, very many. I'm an artist, so I really connected with the main character Misty. The twists and turns are truly unpredictable and shocking. I started this book in the evening, and couldn't put it down all night. It was really an outstanding novel, with something for everyone to enjoy. The amazing truth in this novel will shock you, the ending will floor you, the whole book will take you for one hell of a ride. I'd never read any Chuck Palahniuk books before, and almost didn't even buy this one, but I'm ever so glad I did. I just ordered all of his other books off amazon and I can't wait to crack them open. Simply put, this man is the most amazing author alive.

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Brilliant and visceral

Palahniuk's brutally honest look at the suffering of his creative protagonist is haunting and grips you right away. If you've grown up in a small beach town, you understand the love-hate relationship between locals and tourists. If you're an artist, you'll understand it even more. Palahniuk uses this as his backdrop and ultimately his driver for this compelling story of what one woman must do to escape her fate. The results surely do bring the house down in the final conclusion. I won't spoil it by giving too much away, but the ending is as surprising as it is satisfactory.

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Glad It Wasn't My First Palahniuk Book

If this had been my first Palahniuk book, I would have missed the awesome Invisible Monsters, Fight Club, Lullaby, and Choke.

Actually had I not just finished Invisible Monsters, I don't know if I could have trudged through this book.

This had many of the same themes as the other Palahniuk books but lacked the punch. Palahniuk books, historically, have felt like getting slapped upside the head with a brick made of my own mores. WHAM! Self-mutalation (Invisible Monsters) WHAM! Self-destruction (Fight Club) WHAM! Wholesale murder (Lullaby). Diary was a love tap.

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A disappointment.

This is the first novel of Palahniuk's that I have not been impressed with. (I am reading them in the order in which they were released, if that helps you know which ones that I have read so far.)

All of the other stories were commentary on contemporary issues relating to society and humanity. Those stories were sometimes a little gross and a little deliberately shocking, but it all seemed to serve the larger purpose of the book.

There are none of those elements in Diary. Although it is a mildly entertaining story, it contains none of the narrative on contemporary society that those other books possess. Sure, there is a half hearted attempt at talking about consumerism and how wealth eats everything, but that is only a single page in a two page chapter about ten short from the end.

Instead of being a good story that talks about society, Diary is just a story. Coming from Palahniuk, that is disappointing.

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Misty Wilmot has had it. Once a promising young artist, she?s now stuck on an island ruined by tourism, drinking too much and working as a waitress in a hotel. Her husband, a contractor, is in a coma after a suicide attempt, but that doesn?t stop his clients from threatening Misty with lawsuits over a series of vile messages they?ve found on the walls of houses he remodeled.

Suddenly, though, Misty finds her artistic talent returning as she begins a period of compulsive painting. Inspired but confused by this burst of creativity, she soon finds herself a pawn in a larger conspiracy that threatens to cost hundreds of lives. What unfolds is a dark, hilarious story from America?s most inventive nihilist, and Palahniuk?s most impressive work to date.

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