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"Choke"

I don't like reading books. Well, I do. Problem is I can't find any ones that really grip me... hold me, make me want to read more. Give me Lord of the Rings, and I'll get bored after a few chapters. I guess it's my own fault really, but I have no desire to read things that I have to keep going back over and over to make sure I keep up with the plot. Or just get bored. No flow, nothing that really makes you want to understand the characters more. Just people all walking about, doing things the book asks them to.

I noticed loads of people talking about Chuck Palahniuk on here, and on the way over to Venice, I thought I'd pick up a few books. One of these being Choke, by Chuck.

It's probably the best book I've ever read. Personally. Because I can't stand huge and heavy storylines crafted with stereotypes and mysterious characters... I want to read about them. I want to understand them, know them, be them. This is what Chuck did in Choke. He's wrote about all the things I've been thinking about recently, all the crap that goes on in life, and where we can shove it. He takes a wonderful approuch to showing us quite how pathetic we can be, by hiding from what we truly want to be... how pathetic we are to hold comforts so close. Also pretty much about how we all need to be loved, how we all need to be known, and how we all like to give other people life.

The story is about a man named Victor Mancini, who trawls outside sex addiction meetings for quick shags. His mother, clinically insane and dying a slow death, requires a large amount of money each month to keep her alive. Victor pulls off a ingenius scam most nights to help pay for his mother, and gives the book it's title.

The book is pretty much about a few themes. Love, comforts, and parenthood. And that's about it really. But it handles it so well, written in the first person which I always love, it just grips you so damn well, and forces you to pick it back up. And now I want to read it again.

So yup. Chuck rules. Go read Choke.

Y'ok. Think it was you that made me buy, actually. I'll do that.

Finally! Someone listens!

Grix, get Invisible Monsters before Survivor. It's better - if only because Survivor kinda loses the pace towards the end.

Fight Club isn't too good if you've already seen the film. Everything loses its impact once you already know the storyline.

LOL

Right, I'm not coming on Friday now, until you apologise, and stop spraying your testerone around the forums like a cyber-cat.

Mr.Snuggly wrote:
> You're only reading a book called Perfume because you work for a
> perfume company and wanted to read up on your business, then suck up
> to your boss, impressing him with facts about perfume. You also wear
> perfume.

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That and the fact that it was given to me at the weekend by a woman.
When I was staying there.
And we got naked.

Maybe if you wore perfume, you wouldn't be such a veteran at hand-to-gland combat?

Just a thought

Heh, sure, I'll try and have a look, loads to get.

Read some Stephen Donaldson books. In the Gap series, the main characters consist of a thieving rapist come cyborg, another thieving rapist come psycho, a much raped police ensign and her son who thinks he is his mother.

top stuff.

The last time I read a fiction book was 4 years ago, and was "The Running Man" by Stephen King, which was a lot better then the film, and makes you wonder how the film was even made. I just gave up reading, as I found it never got me anywhere, and also found it to be incredibly boring, when I could watch a film for 2 and a half hours, instead.

Oh yeah, ISS2 was here when I came home, fantastic, thanks. All I need now is to get my controllers back. Mm.

I'm in a strange mood, I'm bored, but happy being bored.

I'll buy some more Chuck books, and I'll get Brian Blessed's book. For some reason I seem to think it'll all be wrote in capitals.