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From the author of the
international sensation Fight Club, a powerful (and hilarious)
novel about love and strife between mothers and sons, the addictive
power of sex, the terrors of aging, the ugly truth about historical
theme parks, and much else... What can you expect but weirdness from
the man that wrote Fight Club? Well, you can expect tons of social
commentary masked (hardly) by some bizarre social misfit that sees
things just a little differently than the rest of us. You can expect
this individual to live a life none of us would envy. This particular
individual grew up with a whack-job mother that was in and out of
mental facilities, had some seriously questionable parenting skills
and sniffed a chemical meant to clean carpets. The only time this
individual was shown love (attention he mistook for love) was when
he was choking to death in a restaurant. Flash forward twenty years.
This individual is a slacker sex-addict that chokes purposely in restaurants
in order to be saved by strangers that end up adopting him as a charity
case because they have saved his life. He does this--in addition to
his real job at a colonial recreation park--to pay for his dying mother's
hospice care. He later meets a doctor at his mother's facility that
he thinks can be more than just another sex-addicted romp. She could
be the one. Choke is a story about what love and perception
mean. These people that save our protagonist think they care about
him because he put them in a position to care about him. He loves
his mother out of sheer obligation. Can a sex addict truly love anyone?
Can he truly love this doctor with whom he has nothing but a cursory
sex-obsessed relationship? If he perceives himself to be the son of
the messiah (you'll see), can he truly lead a Jesus-like life? Are
purity and love his true calling? No one can be sure what's what,
but you can be sure this book will be thought provoking--it just may
take you a few days after finishing it to get it (or maybe I'm just
slow).
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