Book Review: Choke
May 2nd, 2008 by admin
- Chuck Palahniuk
If you can not pronounce the author’s last name, do not dispair, neither can 95% of the rest of the population. What matters here is that what you are getting in this book is some of the nitty gritty you saw in Survivor and not the watered down stuff you saw in Haunted. This book, has gone on to become my favorite Palahniuk book, though I still think Fight Club may be able to dethrone it, once I frigging read it, for now this one wears the crown.
It is the messed up story of a lonely guy who works as a Colonialist…he basically dresses up old school (literally) and plays the part of a Colonial Era in a Museum-type town. I visited a place like that up in Georgetown. Kind of creepy, those places, like the renaissance festival without the turkey legs. Anyway, this guy is really messed up and lonely, taking care of his mom at an old people’s home and getting his sexual kicks as well as his economic woes by choking.
If that does not send you rushing out to the bookstore, I do not know what will. But I do warn, beware of the sex and the language and the plain messed up ideas this man will put into your head which are entirely un-washable. Still, I gobbled this up in a weekend, because it is one of the most original and actually touching stories I have read in a while…and its actually sort of a love story. Seriously.
Rating: 4.5 out of 5
Category: Fiction – Messed up