I don’t write reviews. “It’s only the most diseased rabbits that can eat clover within full view of hawks and foxes and feel no fear. We are the rabbits the wolves run away from.”What an incredible return after the letdown that was The Invention of Sound! The first quarter of the book is tedious, I won’t lie, but it’s necessary for the smooth continuance of the story. Otto and Cecil are disgusting to the core. Their family home is a hotbed of evil madness. They taint and destroy everything they ...

DNF @ 35%

The most offensive thing about this book is how utterly dull it is.

Who'd have thought debauchery could be so dull.

Throwing in the suspiciously sticky towel at the 30% mark.

ARC provided by NetGalley and Simon & Shuster.

Goodness, it's been a long time since I liked a Chuck Palahniuk book (2009's Pygmy, for the record). I have to wonder whether it's him or it's me. When he's staked his reputation on being "transgressive" it feels like maybe it's hard to keep up the shock value after about 20 books. Am I tired of the schtick, or is it just getting increasingly unsubtle? I sometimes feel I should go re-read Lullaby or Survivor and see if they're as good as I remember without the novelty factor.Now, I'm not saying ...

This book stinks. It’s as if a 12 year old heard a description of Clockwork Orange and American Psycho and said “you know what’s really shocking and offensive?” Then wrote down every half wit idea that came into his head.

This book is very Chuck Palahniuk. KNOW THAT BEFORE YOU READ IT. If I have to read one more clueless reviewer who is "offended" by the content of a book by the guy who wrote about a man having his guts sucked out of his anus by a pool filter while masturbating, I'm gonna break my screen.Having said that... this book was awful. In his effort to be offensive and edgy and cool and weird and gross and over the top and depraved, Palahniuk forgot to be one very critical thing: interesting. This latest...

"The only ones who fear death are those who’ve never lived."Tsk! Tsk! Tsk! Chuck!! If you’ve never been offended by his work before then you better prepare yourself. Chuck comes out swinging with all his might and he even got me this time around. Bravo! Would it really be a Palahniuk classic if he didn’t upset some of his readers?I give you the greatest deaths and tragedies of our time. Sudden deaths... in the lake you go... old age deaths... in the lake you go but not before I hack off your fav...

DNF @ 20%

Some of you will certainly enjoy these precocious, precious, irritatingly boring children and will later write reviews gushing about vomit and red bum holes and explain to me later that I simply didn't get some sort of scathing ironic commentary about boys schools and the upper crust and nannies who 'use their mouths' and I'm so sorry, but I simply did NOT enjoy this at all.

Bigger sin? I was bored.

But, you do you.

As a huge Palahniuk fan, this book was just a huge letdown. It was just...weird. And not in a good way. I never fully understood what was going on. I didn't particularly care about the characters. The blurb made it sound like it'd be an interesting tale, and instead we just get weird sexual depravity. There were plenty of times where I just almost gave up on the book because it was just so frustrating to read a book where nothing really seemed to be going on that mattered. Adding to this review ...

To say this is one of the weirdest and most uniquely written books i’ve ever read is quite the accomplishment…but i think it is!let me start by saying this book is gonna be for a VERY NICHE audience. I’m calling it an incestuous Exquisite Corpse with man-baby brothers. it’s hilarious, creepy, and uncomfortable - the fact that these college-aged brothers still have a nanny to bathe them should tell you the tone of the book. Palahniuk uses certain words and phrases very repetitiously, which I can ...