🥒 reviewed Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
'Decadent and Depraved'
3 stars
There's a reviewer with the username 'decadent and depraved' and I feel like that's a good descriptor for this book.
It was the first Palahniuk I'd read when it came into my hands from my sister, an avid Palahniuk fan. I finished most of it on our drive home after which my parents hid it in a closet because they, being the nervous and conservative WASPs that they are, were scandalised by the Wikipedia synopsis. I found it years later and finished what I'd started, its ending consistent with the wacky and crass tone of the rest of it left me disappointed. Somehow I'd hoped for more substance, something more complex, something that satisfied my desire for closure.
It's weird, deliberately over-the-top, and superficial in a way that's supposed to be ironic but goes too far to really achieve it. It's fairly entertaining, Palahniuk's over-fondness for info-dumps notwithstanding, but I …
There's a reviewer with the username 'decadent and depraved' and I feel like that's a good descriptor for this book.
It was the first Palahniuk I'd read when it came into my hands from my sister, an avid Palahniuk fan. I finished most of it on our drive home after which my parents hid it in a closet because they, being the nervous and conservative WASPs that they are, were scandalised by the Wikipedia synopsis. I found it years later and finished what I'd started, its ending consistent with the wacky and crass tone of the rest of it left me disappointed. Somehow I'd hoped for more substance, something more complex, something that satisfied my desire for closure.
It's weird, deliberately over-the-top, and superficial in a way that's supposed to be ironic but goes too far to really achieve it. It's fairly entertaining, Palahniuk's over-fondness for info-dumps notwithstanding, but I cannot say it was anything more meaningful than that.
