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Summary: You either love it or you hate it
Review: Invisible Monsters, is by far, one of the greatest books to exist on the surface of this planet. Unfortunately, there is no in between with this book. I have bought this book for everyone who knows how to read and there have been only two reactions. You either hate it or you love it. It really depends on the type of person you are. If you're an intelligent, open-minded person who is looking for a book with depth and layers, then this is the book for you. If you're the type of person that's looking for a simple story that you don't have to think about, try a different book. Truth is, the first time you read this book, you really need to be paying attention. Nothing in this book is without purpose. Everything is there for a reason. I recommend buying this book, waiting till you have a few hours (however long it takes for you to read about 280 pages) and read it from cover to cover in one sitting. Then I suggest you read it again. I've read this book well over twenty times. Everytime I read the book there seems to be a part I don't remember reading the last time. As the book says "No matter how careful you are there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didnt experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day." The book opens your eyes to a new point of view, to keep you looking forward. As one of the most remarkable characters to hit print says "Tell me your sad-assed story all night. When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be."
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Summary: Invisible Monsters
Review: Give me a cheap literary trick.
Give me redundancy. Oh, Chuck, why do you do this to yourself? You find a neat little saying, a nice trick, a clever play of words and then you ram it into the ground until what's left is beyond dead, beyond interesting, beyond taste. Pile on sex, drugs and twists-a-plenty and you have Invisible Monsters. The story is reasonable, I suppose. Definitely enough there to keep the page turning. A mildly successful model has had half of her face shot off, by her best friend, her ex-fiance, who knows? She has to learn to cope with being horribly ugly, a monster. She meets up with a pre-op trans-sexual and they have adventures together, stealing drugs from people's homes with another friend. But the twists are ridiculous. We are shown various tid-bits of the mostly nameless narrator's life and every single character brought into the story ends up twisting and turning about until they are all in this tight little web of lies. The problem is that life isn't like that. People can disappear from your life and never, ever show up. They can appear, change your life in a certain way, then disappear, and then resurface years too late. But they don't become ever single focal point of your entire adult life. Everyone you meet is not directly affected by and affecting every other person you meet. Life just doesn't work like that, but in Chuck's world, it does. Which makes for some not very believable writing. The characters are all one dimensional caricatures. Perhaps that is the point, and I think it is, but it leaves me unsatisfied. I honestly couldn't imagine a single one of these characters living outside the fairly tedious storyline. They couldn't breathe and live on their own, they don't have enough substance. Unfortunately, in the end, the twists make or break this book. And they aren't even that interesting. Once you see the first one coming - and it isn't too hard to figure out - all you need to do is extrapolate and you have the entire book. Hell, the first chapter is the end sequence, it's like there is a huge, neon sign pointing you where to go and what direction to take, so your mind does, and when you find out that you were right, the disappointment is immense. Overall, I guess I wasn't happy with this book. It read too much like Choke, another Palahniuk story, and his writing techniques are repetitive and redundant. It was a quick read though, all it took was a Sunday afternoon, and I guess my time was better spent than if I had sat around doing nothing. I guess.
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Summary: LOve it
Review: Chuck Palahniuk is pure genius. i've read all his books but for some weird reason "Invisible Monsters" is the one i choose to take on the bus with me everytime i've finished my last read and haven't been to the bookstore lately. At least every page is filled with a line you could live by; A qoute you could put on your tombstone if you wanna leave the world thinking. It also has some fabulous twists and turns that just keep the reader engaged. Out of all Chuck Palahniuk books this is the one to read. i guarantee if you don't like it the first time, you will definitlyl ike it the second. this and survivor are must haves.
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Summary: disappointing
Review: The book would receive one star if it were not for the line "game shows are meant to make us feel better about our patheic education"(or something like that)
The book was not at all memorable, and I thought the plot was far fetched....very far fetched. Paluhniuk is not writing books like anyone else is today, elevating him to some sort of cult icon...and in his other books I can see why. "Invisible Monsters" is fast, jumping and flashing all over the place, but never really going anywhere. I finished the book without any sort of revelation I think he hoped his readers would find. The biting social commentary that makes "Fight Club" great is watered down here, and almost cliche.
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Summary: | Invisible Monster |
Review: Again as i read these reviews i see more unhappy readers complaining on about Chuck palahniuk books. These people are the poeple that realize what chuck palahniuk is writing about and realize that hes writing about people like them. Invisible Monster is, in an outview, about the media. Its a insite on our lives as humans and it helps show us the falacy in us. Invisible Monster is a book that will open up your ideas and views on the world while at the same time keep you reading from page to page. Its immensly interesting and exciting to the last page.. As always im going to leave you with a quote from the book "... and the photographer says, flash, give me empath, flash, give me sorrow, flash, give me a break."
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Summary: Gripping Read
Review: Invisible Monsters is definitely one of the best books I've read in a long time. I have never read any of Palahniuk's other books but I must say that I will be reading his others. I started the book this morning and could not put it down till it was finished, and it is now 1:23 AM. I don't know how anyone could claim this book to be predictable, my jaw was constantly dropping due to the new connections that were being created.I would recommend this book to everyone. There were so many lines used by the characters that are memorable. If you don't like the story you will at least recognize Palahniuk's genius with phrases.
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Summary: Amazing
Review: I started reading this book when I was in the army, and I even volunteered for guard duties so I could finish it the same day I started. I have to say that this is the most incredible book I have ever read. Chuck is the god of satire.
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Summary: give me brilliance
Review: despite how much i LOVED fight club and lullaby, i think that this is palahniuk's best. although some may argue that it's predictable, i was on the edge of my seat through the whole thing.
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Summary: A Hip Book for People Who Don't Read
Review: INVISIBLE MONSTERS is the perfect book to bring with you to the coffee shop. Prop it up on the table. You don't even have to read it. Just keep it upright and visible. Someone will inevitably approach you and ask, "Hey, dude, are you reading that chuckpalahniukbook?" If you're honest, you will say, "No, dude, it's trash, but I just want people to think that I'm cool." Then you'll both laugh and walk out of the coffee shop arm-in-arm. You'll've made a new friend. The plot of INVISIBLE MONSTERS? It's about a disfigured fashion model named Shannon McFarland who steals a turkey and kidnaps her ex-fiancee, Manus who rejected her for being ugly. That sounds like an interesting plot, doesn't it? It is. But the problem is the writing is even more sloppy, diffuse, hapharzard, and artless than this Amazon review---and for that reason, the reader loses his/her interest REAL QUICK. The first-person narrator, her name's Shannon, she doesn't sound like a girl. She sounds like a troglodyte. So does the author in all of his other books. INVISIBLE MONSTERS is a hip book for people who want to be hip, who watch a lot of television but've never read a book in their lives. If you like to prop the books that you don't read on the coffee shop table, INVISIBLE MONSTERS is the one for you!
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Summary: Monsters only seem invisible.
Review: This is by far my favorite book that I have ever read. From what other Chuck Palahniuk books I've read, this is the best. With twists and turns everywhere that are completely unexpectable, unless you expect the unexpected, this book holds you captive with ropes around your wrists. This book has many inspiring quotes that made me think about everything in my present life and my past. This book is superb, a must-own and must-read-many-times. "In rich houses where old rich people live, everything is just what you'd think. The rubrum lilies in the enameled vase are real, not silk. The cream-colored drapes are silk, not polished cotton. Mahogany is not pine stained to look like mahogany. No pressed-glass chandeliers posing as cut crystal. The leather is not vinyl. The elaborate Tudor roses carved in the ceiling are plaster, not pressed tin, not fiberglass. The torsos of battered Greek nudes are marble, not marbelized plaster. The boxes in the breakfront are not enameled in the manner of fabrege. The boxes are fabrege pillboxes. The lace under the boxes was not tatted by a machine. Everything is exactly what it looks like."
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