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Title: Lullaby: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk ISBN: 0385722192 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.92
Rating: 4
Summary: Stick and stones
Comment: Of the four Palahniuk books I've read, three of them deserved to be re-read (except for Invisible Monsters, I just got bored). There's so much subtlety and irony that you just can't pick up on until your second read. Just little details that you remember a week later and go 'ah! So that was what it's there for.'
Lullaby is no exeption. It's more horror than previous works, but still has the old nihilistic social commentary twist that Chuck's famous for. A Culling Song that kills the listener when recited. For a concept that could have been done very, very badly indeed, our author focuses on the social implications of the Culling Song, stating that if it ever existed, 'the deaf shall inherit the earth'.
As with all Palahniuk novels, you can tell that prior to writing each one, something pissed him off in a big way. With Invisible Monsters it was beauty models. With Fight Club it was Ikea. With Lullaby, it's beatboxes and stereos and white noise. This makes it seem all the more personal, and the author's voice is all the more evident for it.
Lullaby is less obvious in its satirical undertones than Fight Club, much more subtle than Invisible Monsters, and more plot-driven than Choke. It marks a change in direction on Palahniuk's part to horror, but he sticks to what he does best... which is getting angry and writing about the feeling.
Rating: 4
Summary: do you really what to do this?
Comment: note: review ambiguity intentional...
Lulliby was fun, but not as "eccentric" as i was expecting. interesting: the idea of murder for the sole purpose of having at your disposal a beautiful... partner and presenting it as an acceptable and perfectly reasonable practice that makes absolute sense. in some dark morbid way it's like, "why didn't i think of that, hmmmmmmmm" (if men admit it honestly). i liked the present-time inserts during the story: "stop making babies!" and the talking "judas cow" scene.
the "hero", as sarcastically referred to, reminded me of all-about-money women that men, obviously including the author, love to hate, hate to love but can not help it... "and this is my life".
it seems fitting how she ends up; although, the story could have ended in so many other ways... its a nice image though to think that a woman (conceited, middle-aged, too much foundation...) ends up inside the body of an old baggy potato of a prison cop.
the story took me back to my favorite town of residence, Portland, Oregon: the apparition of a young dark haired woman in a black dress (with a small white rose pattern and white lace collar) who smelled liked lilac at my Broadway victorian home, Skyline, Forest Park, Northwest 23rd, Southeast, Burnside, Cornell, Portland State, OHSU, I-84 (to Hood River), Candlelight Room, the Red Sea, Key Largo, Dandelion Pub, Coffee People, Zupans, 26 to Powell Butte and Mt. Hood, Arlene Schnitz..... Taylor Street.
i,m moving back into one of the haunted houses
Rating: 4
Summary: Lullaby Review
Comment: "Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we're born?" (Palahniuk 228)Insightful questions such as these appear throughout Chuck's book which starts off to be about a solitary widower who is reporting on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Through seemingly unimportant events and random plot twists, this reporter, Carl Streator,connects the deaths to a book wich contains a poem that is a culling spell and kills whoever hears it. He meets Helen, her wiccan secretary Mona, and Mona's boyfriend Oyster and together the 'family' drive cross country to root out the existance of the book whithout killing everyone in the process.
Lullaby presents the reader with many questions and ideas that were probably not considered at first. "Imagine a plague you catch through your ears..." It becomes a series of plot twists and suprising events that lead to the truth that Palahniuk is a literary genius of dark humor.
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Title: Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk ISBN: 0385498721 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 04 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Choke: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk ISBN: 0385720920 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 11 June, 2002 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: Diary: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk ISBN: 0385509472 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk ISBN: 0805062971 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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