Illiterarty.com Book reviews and blogs by Bridget

If this was a car, it would be going cheap—a DeLorean someone died in. Pay cash, clean it yourself.

In a world where beauty opens every door, can a person be brave enough to be everything they don’t want to be?

Ever wondered about the motivations of a screwed up sex addict with a penchant for making people feel needed and a need to be loved? Choke is a tale of addiction, mothers, best friends, faking the eighteenth century, and weird doctors—with a little bit of religion thrown in.

Flight 2039 has a couple of hours before it crashes into the earth. And on that flight is a man, recording his life story into the black box.

Flight 2039 has a couple of hours before it crashes into the earth. And on that flight is a man, recording his life story into the black box. Chuck Palahniuk at his finest.

If this was a Lonely Planet guide to Portland, Oregon, it would be the SHEEZY.

They say that the first sentence of a novel is the most important; most people who pick a book up in a bookstore will head straight to the first page to see what the sentence is as a judgment of whether to read it or not. And I tell you, Chuck Palahniuk is the master of the first sentence. And paragraph, for that matter. You are completely sucked in before you know what’s what.

I admit I started reading Diary based exclusively on the fact that it was written by Chuck Palahniuk, having previously read and enjoyed Fight Club some years ago. I had no idea of the story. But I’ll tell you something... I was hooked from the first page.

You know when you read a novel and get disappointed particularly because the blurb made it sound so damn great?!?

If this was an autobiography, it would be effing awesome, but I’d also like to imagine that Chuck will always be too busy out there doing stuff to pen his own memoirs.