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I don't recommend books often, mainly because I don't read that much, but this book took my breath away. Palahniuk also wrote "Fight Club" so right there, that gives you an idea of the type of twists and the style of exploring normal-damaged people.
This novel was...
Think of those post-apocalypse SV fics of a few years back. Of Jenn's "Handful of Dust", of Te's "Past Grief". This novel has that same sense of fascinating horror, that terribly voyueristic feeling of watching the most monstrous sides of people, of feeling them come apart at the seams.
It also has a wonderful non-chronological style that works. That builds a great atmosphere, that lets the plot twists be genuinely surprising. (Surprising in the way that I got an inkling a paragraph before the book revealed it, nto three chapters earlier.)
It was breathtaking and compelling and... And these days? I'm not used to finding that level of connection in anything printed professionally. So I'm pointing it out, and then I'm going to try more of this guy's stuff.
This novel was...
Think of those post-apocalypse SV fics of a few years back. Of Jenn's "Handful of Dust", of Te's "Past Grief". This novel has that same sense of fascinating horror, that terribly voyueristic feeling of watching the most monstrous sides of people, of feeling them come apart at the seams.
It also has a wonderful non-chronological style that works. That builds a great atmosphere, that lets the plot twists be genuinely surprising. (Surprising in the way that I got an inkling a paragraph before the book revealed it, nto three chapters earlier.)
It was breathtaking and compelling and... And these days? I'm not used to finding that level of connection in anything printed professionally. So I'm pointing it out, and then I'm going to try more of this guy's stuff.
