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by Chuck Palahniuk
In a word (or two or three): depraved goodness? is there really such
a thing?
From Mr. Hipster:
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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