Author- Chuck Palahniuk
Genre- Black Comedy
Pages-293
Pages to Date- 628
The
Good:
Choke
follows the life of Victor Mancini, a sex addict struggling to pay for his
mother’s care at a retirement home. The
main character is clearly an intelligent man but an underachiever at life. Throughout
the story the reader feels the need to encourage Victor to pull his life
together and become the man he has the potential to be.
The
Bad:
The
main women in this novel are all cast in a very negative light. They all are either deranged or partake in
unseemly careers such as stripping. Also,
there did not appear to be a defined point to the book or moral to be
learned.
The
Verdict:
Ultimately,
I did not fully enjoy the book. The lack
of meaning mixed with the vulgarity wasn’t really my taste. There were times when certain scenes did not
really seem to advance the story either, which made the reading drag on.
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