Invisible Monsters
£3.02
loved it! - My first introduction to Palahnuik was of course Fight Club. Simply loved this book and want to see it immortalized in film please... They ve done Choke!
A fierce and strangely beautiful piece. - This novel is something that publishers were so shocked by that when Palahniuk first offered it up, nobody wanted to know. However, thankfully Fight Club opened doors for this genius of the macabre and we are now treated to a frantic and well thought out essential read.Palahniuk s characters are well known for their nuances and it is a trait that makes his books stand out, but Monsters stands out more than others. He combines the shock factor with philosophy, and somehow creates beauty in horror. As the printed version of the ultimate avant-garde film, Monsters is not as you may believe an excuse for Palahniuk to shock (which he still does, in good measure) but instead it asks us questions as readers that are subtly placed but will keep you thinking as the pages turn. I d reccommend this to anybody as a shining example of Palahniuk s work-this is the book to read if you want to enter a bleaker yet more interesting universe.
Amazing! So intense it will stop you from sleeping! - As someone who has recently completed a BA in English Literature it shocks (and worries) me that I can barley even begin articulate just how incredible this book is. Recommend to me by a friend, I was at first sceptical because of the book s basic premise i.e. - the story of a disfigured fashion model, which sounded slightly vacuous and shallow to me. I was extremely wrong! This is a great meaty read, almost overflowing with substance. The text is a great example of literary postmodernism and as such presents a fervent and continuous challenging of our societies established notions of gender, of sexuality, and most definitely of narrative and our assumptions about how a story should be told. In this latter respect I found Invisible Monsters reminiscent to the works of Jeanette Winterson, particularly The Powerbook and Lighthousekeeping.A word of warning though, do not read this novel before you go to bed. I did and for two nights running it seriously disrupted my sleep, which is a testament to just how intense Shannon s narrative is. You will be so totally absorbed into the darkness and twisted logic of her world it becomes very difficult to escape yourself!!The novel does have its lighter moments though with some great laugh-out-loud comedy, particularly coming from Shannon s parents and their zealous and overcompensative crusade for gay-rights.An intensely dark, disturbing and thought-provoking classic for our times!
i ruined it for myself but its a good book - I decided to read this after reading Diary and fight club.This book is so intense that I really wound myself up and got really anxious about what would happen. I then actually decided to read the end before I got there just to relieve the tension...which was a stupid idea. Cause the end is really good.just..dont do that.but read the book. Its difficult to get your head around palahniuks writing technique at first with the charachters incoherent and nihilistic thoughts but its still awesome.
see through good - i was so impressed by this book that i will now be reading everything Chuck Palahniuk wrote. He s now one of my favorite writers, along with Christopher Moore and Jackson McCrae. Invisible Monsters is a really twisted work that everyone should read. You WILL be put off by some of the humor and references to sex, but that s part of Palahniuk s deal. I can tell you, even if you don t like some of the sections in this book, the coming together at the end makes up for it.The basic idea of the book is about a fashion model who has become disfigured. Palahniuk uses fashion-type references throughout and the word Flash! to denote the fashion world or the remnants of it. A truly well thought out book from cover to cover. I would also recommend the Christopher Moore book Practical Demon Keeping and the McCRae Katzenjammer for other equally entertaining reads.