Invisible Monsters (Chuck Palahniuk, 1999)Choke (Chuck Palahniuk, 2001)Fight Club is one of my favorite movies ever, but I hate Chuck Palahniuk's books. I remember watching Fight Club several times, and then reading the book, and realizing how much I didn't like it. So I didn't follow up on it.
Now I've read Choke and Invisible Monsters, and they are both bad. The writing style is very annoying, because it is so gimmicky, and he overdoes everything. In Choke, he has these phrases where the narrator goes, "'X' isn't the right word, but it's the first word that comes to mind", where X equals any random word you can think of, when describing a situation. He does that a million times. In Invisible Monsters, it's FLASH give me patience FLASH give me understanding, etc, and in another scene, its give me something else.
And the whole story has like a million twists. So, here are all the twists, if you are planning to read it,skip this, or read it,
So, the narrator has an accident, where her face is blown off, and is disfigured, but she used to be model. She has a best friend, who is also a model, an ex-boyfriend, and a brother who is dead. The story with the brother is that he got HIS face blown off due to a hairspray being in the bin, and then run away because he was gay, and then died of aids. Also, cops questioned the brother's parents due to the hairspray explosion, as they claimed it was done by them. In the hospital, the narrator meets a Tyler Durden kind of a girl, who is beautiful and seems to know everything.
Now, the twists. The narrator seems to have been shot by her best friend who was having an affair with her ex-boyfriend. The ex-boyfriend is gay. The girl in the hospital is actually her brother who got a sex change. The narrator was the one who called the cops on her parents. Enough twists? But wait, brother actually threw the hairspray himself in the bin to blow his own face off. More? the best friend also used to be a guy, and got a sex change. MORE? The narrator blew her own face off, because she didn't want to be beautiful anymore. I think there was a few more twists at the end of the story, but by that time, I was really just scanning past.
1/5
