Survivor

Chuck Palahniuk certainly has a style of his own. Dark, twisted and a little irreverent but so clever and creative. This story is bizarre but a fun and funny read. Sharp dialogue. Engaging from page one. You get little glimpses of what's coming, like the next impending train wreck. I found it hard to put down. This was the first book I've read of his, but have purchased more.

This is my first Chuck Palahnuik novel, and I couldn't get enough of it. The quirky characters and fast paced plot kept me up past bedtime more than I care to admit. On an intellectual level, many of the concepts presented lay open the conventional views we have of our society and make the reader think about the world around them. Definitely worth reading!

The way Chuck Palahniuk is building his characters will probably look as a split personality point of view. But the book is fluent and easy to ready. I think the beginning and the chapter buildup is very promising and very provocative, and I was expecting a surprise ending. Most of the marketing world is actually a vision made before the internet era.

If you've ready any other Chuck Palahniuk, you've read all Chuck Palahniuk. Fight Club is a great book and changed my life - one of my favorites. But every book of his I've read since then just rehashes the same thing over and over again, only worse. Just read Fight Club. Then stop reading Palahniuk.

It's a quick read so the entertaining offbeat premise, and the wry observations this author is known for, make the time worth while.
But the ending is really disappointing. It just goes soft, as if he became bored with the story and got really lazy.
The ending totally lacks imagination and almost seems as if it was written by someone else entirely. Definitely doesn't do justice to the rest of the book.

Dark and hilarious like just about everything else he's written. Haunting and irresistibly page turning.

Definitely something you'll want to re-read if you like his style. I know some people find his "style" or "voice" off putting but I've always liked it. A bit like a
Christopher Moore with a lot more baggage, went off his Prozac.

I have often enjoyed Chuck's sense of strange and odd in his characters. He's an excellent writer. Survivor is no less imaginative and engaging than any of his best work - having recently read damned and doomed I just had to have more, happily I found Survivor, the only book of his that I hadn't read yet. Survivor is a ripping yarn!

Reviews on books are obviously subjective. Exactly the same as looking at the Mona Lisa and Kandinsky. So, yeah, the wife swore I would love this. Nope. Great idea for a plot, but I'm just not a fan of his writing style. I like slow burn stories, but I could have written a book by the time I became interested in this one...cheers!

I always enjoy Palahniuk for his ability to totally confuse you for the first chapters and then have you unable to put the story down. The characters are as complicated and interesting as always. The world he creates is sometimes totally unbelievable but then Your brought back to the ground and you see how close we are to the story. Read survivor and think of our modern celebrity and body issue obsessions.

A different read, which I'm sure you would expect from this author. Very much enojyed it. For some strange reason.. I was really into this character. I didn't want it to end even though from the first chapter you know he's doomed. The cult thing was really intruiguing. And I love the tons of random ettiquette facts thrown in.

This is not Chuck Palahnuik's best, but any Palahnuik is better than no Palahnuik in my opinion. It is funny and easy to read. Typical dark sense of humor. Not mind-blowing like some of his other books, but still worth reading.

I remember reading this book in high school when a friend let me barrow the book loved it then and now 11 years later still love the book and funny I understand a lot more now ha ha. I've read a few of Chucks books and they are all amazing!!

I remember reading this book in high school when a friend let me barrow the book loved it then and now 11 years later still love the book and funny I understand a lot more now ha ha. I've read a few of Chucks books and they are all amazing!!