Choke (edit title)

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“"Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of."”

• Rated 3 stars

“Kayla R said: 3 stars

Interesting, yet hard to follow at times. it worked out in the end though.
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“My third Palahniuk novel, and totally 100% absolutely fucking hilarious. About a guy who fakes choking in restaurants so he can be saved by strangers and thus "reaffirm" his life. He's also a sex addict which adds even more comedy to the story.”

• Rated 5 stars

“I love being simultaneously grossed-out and tickled. His turn of phrase is astonishing! The movie was pretty good, too.”

• Rated 3 stars

“Good Chuck for Chuck fans. Not great, but it will give you your Chuck fix.”

• Rated 5 stars

“I wish the movie was never made for this book.”

• Rated 3 stars

“IT was allright. A little dull at times and the thought processes werent really indepth!”

• Rated 2 stars

“I didn't care for this book. It was a bit much for me. I'm all for strange and different, but a whole chapter on airplane sex seemed to be trying too hard to be shocking just for the sake of being shocking. I read this book fast just so that I could be done with it. I don't think I'll be reading anything else by Palahniuk.”

• Rated 4 stars

““What you’re getting here is a stupid story about a stupid little boy. A stupid true life story about nobody you’d ever want to meet."

This is how Chuck Palahniuk begins his tale of Victor Mancini, the sex-addict, parasitic scam anti-hero who ironically forms great intimacy with the reader. Victor’s close examining of sex makes us look closely again at who we are, what we seek, and why we do so. Owing much to Lacan and his psychology, Choke introduces an anti-hero who does his best to get at the missing object of his life. The very missing object and goal that, as Lacan says, is impossible to find. However the individual is doomed to seek this object until his/her death.

In Choke the protagonist Victor Mancini, is a restless and angry anti-hero who is completely alienated from culture, religion, morality, and any possible form of structure and discipline. The only outlet, from which he can seek revenge at society and finally reach freedom of thought, is sex. Victor is a sex-addict whose only jouissance is his addiction. Behind its personal and psychological veil, its intricate and angry characters, Choke is also an American Beauty: a dark and sordid parody on Americanism.”

• Rated 1 stars

“Truly a sad story. I guess I really hated this book. It was about a guy who either can't work or won't so he chokes himself in restaraunts to get sympathy money. His friends are low-lifes too. But, he seems to have a really good heart. I just hated the way it made me feel. I guess helpless. I just didn't like it. I wonder what the movie was like.”