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Title: Diary: A Novel by CHUCK PALAHNIUK ISBN: 0-385-50947-2 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.44 (89 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Can You Feel This?
Comment: Grace says, "We all die." She says, "The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."
From my personal favorate writer and my own personal savior, Chuck Palahniuk, comes his sixth novel. Although I wouldn't consider this his finest by a mile, it's still a very well-crafted and intriguing book. The plot follows a middle-aged woman who after the failed suicide attempt and coma of her husband, must work tables to support her daughter and mother-in-law. Strangely enough she keeps getting calls from people whose vacation homes have been altered by her husband. These home are missing rooms, blocked off, hidden. When she goes to investigate, these rooms are filled with startling messages from her husband. The island she so peacefully lives on also starts to change and her mother-in-law and daughter both seem to be acting very suspicious.
The novel is written in a very unique way also. It's written in the form of a coma diary. A diary from the main character to her husband for him to read if he ever comes out of his coma. Like all Palahniuk novels, Diary is written in a very dark mood. I did feel that the novel was a little "lighter" than most his work. Though still very dark. The one thing that attracts me to Palahniuk's work is that he is very insightful on our society. Many times while reading one of his novels including Diary, I find myself reading a phrase again, awed at the substance that I'm taking in.
If your a Palahniuk fan, it's safe to say you won't be disappointed with Diary. It's definately a different approach by him, but still very much his style. I felt it seemed somewhat slow in the beginning of the book through the first several chapters, this is just to build-up the plot though. Once the build-up is past, the rest of the novel speeds by. Once I pick up a Palahniuk novel I find myself unable to let it down. Which is why I read them so fast. To anyone new to Palahniuk I would probably recommend reading one of his earlier novels first like "Choke" or "Invisible Monsters," and of course Palahniuk's immortal "Fight Club." And if you enjoy any of those, it's just a matter of time before you read all of his work.
Rating: 5
Summary: Dear Diary
Comment: Like all of Chuck Palahniuk's works, Diary is funny, sad, disturbing, irreverant, dry, and above all, well written.
Misty Tracy Wilmont is the keeper of the diary, all the time her husband lying in a hospital room after an attempted suicide. As with other Palahniuk plots, this one is far too complicated to go into, but suffice it to say that myriad things come to light during Peter's (the husband) hospital stay. Seems he has (had) a penchant for scribbling things on the wall of houses that were being built, and the town is none too happy. Just one example for those who need to know.
The biggest difference in this and every other novel the author has written, is the setting--a resort town. His usual haunts are downtrodden suburbia or a ruined inner city, not some tourist-haunted island. But then, leave it to Palahniuk to find the darkness and the light in just about every situation. Once again, a stellar performance from the master.
Also recommended: McCrae's BARK OF THE DOGWOOD
Rating: 4
Summary: One of Palanhiuk's Best
Comment: I just finished "Diary" today, and I must say that I really enjoyed it. This is perhaps his best work since Invisible Monsters. I was a bit skeptical at first, after being dissapointed with Lullaby. This book is a bit different, but in many ways it is still trademark Chuck.
The story starts off being a dark comedy, with tragic reflections on inspiration, art and hope dried up. Art is the focus of the main character, and clearly, Chuck has done his homework. As an artist, I found Chuck's statements about art to be laugh out loud funny, insightful, cynical, and well...downright realistic. There are few likeable characters in this book, aside from the main character (who is only likeable in that readers will feel sorry for her and be rooting for her to overcome circumstances), who is the "author" of the diary. As you dig deeper into Diary, you will find that these unlikeable characters are downright evil, as the story cascades into a bizarre, twisted, and frightening close.
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Title: Fugitives and Refugees : A Walk in Portland, Oregon by CHUCK PALAHNIUK ISBN: 1400047838 Publisher: Crown Pub. Date: 08 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk ISBN: 0385722192 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Survivor : A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk ISBN: 0385498721 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 04 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk ISBN: 0393319296 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Choke by CHUCK PALAHNIUK ISBN: 0385720920 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 11 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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