I Want You To Die For Me Baby Personal review for Lullaby Let's say that a simple chant can change your life forever. A simple song can really make you devastated. The words behind Chuck Palahniuk’s Lullaby is simply ambitious. Imagine a simple poem can kill many people, simply by reading it to you...
The Basics Carl Streator is an investigative journalist, and he has been tasked with finding a pattern among babies who died of crib death. He does find a pattern. The same book of poems in each house, marked on the same page. It turns out this is a culling song, and anyone who hears it dies. Now ...
This was highly recommended by a friend whose literary tastes I respect and often share. I can see some of the things she probably liked in it. She likes the fantastical and quirky, particularly served up in a literary style, and I can certainly see both virtues in the book--I just didn't particular...
Oh ... I'm undecided. I don't know if I like Chuck P. or I just think I should like him. I guess the reason I feel this way is because I enjoy the surrealism, I enjoy the absurdity and I enjoy the bizarre escape his books provide me with but I guess my beef with him is that I hate being preached t...
Carl Streator, a journalist investigating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, discover its cause: a lullaby in a book of poems, actually a magic spell, a "culling" song intended to bring a merciful death to loved ones. He then, along with some companions, goes on a road trip to gather and destroy all the ...
After reading 4 of Palahniuk's books (actually, probably after reading two) I've started to get the feeling I'm reading one of those books for children where there are blanks for where the names of the characters should be and where you can have the name of your nephew or niece of choice printed so ...
Another fantastic Palahniuk book, one of my favorites. The theme is all about control, something I always fear of losing. Reading it gave me shivers, thinking of all the times I have been controlled in my life without knowing it and the possibility of it happening on a larger scale is terrifying. Pe...
Chuck Palahnuik cannot seem to write a bad book. The 4th book of his that I've read, I'm continually impressed by each novel. The man really knows how to write an ending..this one does not fall short.
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