Bizarre isn't the right word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.

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	• Asfixia 21/ Choke (Debolsillo) Chuck Palahniuk, 2004 - 330 pages average customer review:based on 455 reviews
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It Was Ok...

I agree with the other reviews-if you are disgusted by vivid and dirty sex, poop, snot, bodily fluids of all sorts, old people and monkeys, this book probably isn't for you. If you can deal, you will only be rewarded with a mediocre story at best. The whole novel feels like it is jammed with needless uncomfortable descriptions for the sake of making people uncomfortable. If creating a sense of unease helped move the story along, I would be fine with the device...but it didn't help an already weak story. Parts of the novel would have made great short stories, but as a whole it just wasn't strong enough to make me feel anything. And I'm sorry, but if I read "but it's the first thing that comes to mind" again, I thought I was going to start screaming. That was worse torture than the monkey and the chestnuts description.

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Starts slow; ends fast.

This is the second Chuck Palahniuk book I have read having started with the frightening, "Haunted." I liked Choke, didn't love it. It was a fantastically quick read. I enjoyed the character of Victor Mancini, but the author does not present anything likeable about him. I would venture a guess that this is the authors style throughout his catalog. Choke is a biting social satire and will make the reader rethink views on addiction.

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Bizarre isn't the right word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.

Bizarre isn't the right word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.

Victor Mancini is medical school dropout and a sex addict. He raises money to pay for his crazy mother's care in a nursing home by pretending to choke in restaurants. The people who "save" him feel like heroes and also feel responsible for him.

This book is for MATURE readers who are not easily offended. It is extremely sexually explicit--perverted, dark, and oddly fascinating.

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Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be ?saved? by fellow patrons who, feeling responsible for Victor?s life, go on to send checks to support him. When he?s not pulling this stunt, Victor cruises sexual addiction recovery workshops for action, visits his addled mom, and spends his days working at a colonial theme park. His creator, Chuck Palahniuk, is the visionary we need and the satirist we deserve.

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