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Diary [Kindle Edition]

Chuck Palahniuk
4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)

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"Some of his best work is here. . . . When it's on, it's on, and it could be Palahniuk's most ambitious novel to date, certainly the most ambitious since Fight Club." -"The Washington Post Book World"
"Madly inventive. . . . It simply, exuberantly, escapes literary categorization." --"Los Angeles Times
""Palahniuk's pacing is impeccable. . . . He draws from a strange palette of worldly nihilism and supernatural conspiracy to paint a compelling portrait of the artist as an unwitting conduit of evil." "--The Boston Globe"
"Palahniuk is a bracingly toxic purveyor of dread and mounting horror. He makes nihilism fun." -"Vanity Fair"
"To read a Chuck Palahniuk novel means being shocked, enlightened, disturbed, buoyed, horrified, delighted and perplexed-sometimes on a single page." --"Pittsburgh Tribune Review
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"Palahniuk delightfully pushes Diary into the ludicrous, but his restless intelligence coheres plotwise, and as always he makes his ideas "move." . .

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The bestselling author of Lullaby and Choke continues his twenty-first century reinvention of the horror novel in this homage to Rosemary's Baby.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 469 KB
  • Print Length: 274 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1400032814
  • Publisher: Vintage Digital (30 Jun 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B0052Z3K5U
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #113,142 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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19 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Chilling 23 Dec 2004
Format:Paperback
This book is the most darkly compelling novel I have ever read. I would read, disgusted, almost unwilling to continue, but nevertheless unable to stop; something that I share with the main character of the book. If you enjoyed Fight Club, and Chuck's perfect little narrative soundbytes, you will love this book as much as I do. Here is a classic example:

"Just for the record, the weather today is bitter with occasional fits of jealous rage".

The book is graphic, gritty, and overwhelming. Chuck's repetition of phrases throughout the book such as the one above give it an almost hypnotic quality. You will see where the story is going long before the main character, you will scream for her to stop, to run, praying that she will evade the inevitable.

Books this involving may just save us all from illiterate damnation :)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This was my first stab at a Palahniuk novel, and initially, I was preparing myself to be let down. The blurb on the back cover didn't really sell the plot to me, and the opening few chapters - although extremely well-written - give away nothing of the overall tone and direction of the book. However, as the story progresses, the narrative becomes richer and richer, and each little random nugget of wisdom (or nonsense!) encountered along the way begins to take on meaning: '...an artist's job is to make order out of chaos. You collect details, look for a pattern, and organize. You make sense out of senseless facts.' By the end, I was totally wrapped up in the story: I read 'Diary' in one sitting, incapable of putting it down. Detailed descriptions of the painter's materials, as well as frequent references to tortured artists of the past, lend vitality to the ambitious plot. My only gripe is the repeated phrase 'Just for the record', which jarred slightly. Otherwise, Palahniuk's writing is brutally honest, beautifully emotive, and refreshingly shocking in parts. I cannot recommend this book enough.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Chuck Palahniuk is one of those writers who, after you've read one of his books, you have to read all the others. It's the same way with the works of David Sedaris and Jackson McCrae; Christopher Moore, too. And so I came by way of Diary through Fight Club and Survivor.

Palahniuk's works are dark and disturbing, but there's a wry, cynical humor there also. He obviously owes a debt of gratitude to Kurt Vonnegut and the likes of even Oscar Wilde, but he's made his style his own and it's one heck of a style.

As usual, the author wraps his books around some theme (infanticide, choking, etc) but the ideas go deeper and more complex than you can imagine. Much in the same was as McCrae's Katzenjammer does with its odd twists and turns. Or the way Martin Amis convolutes his plots in his Money and Success. If you want a book like no other--if you want a lot of them--then read Diary and all other C.P. books.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Did you like Fight Club, Survivor and Invisible Monsters?
Then this book is not for you. Those three books by Chuck Palahniuk are some of my all-time favourite books, but this did just not cut it for me. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Frederik
Slow and obvious but well written.
I'm a great fan of Chuck Palahniuk, his writing style is unique and quirky and like his other books this is true for Diary. Read more
Published 14 months ago by P. Albone
Just for the record...
Any Chuck Palahniuk novel should have the following: Sickening realisation of mutilation/illness/violence, Esoteric Fact-Checks (eg, Yellow watercolour paint is produced from the... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Kal
fine
boks arrived ontime and in perfect condition as described. as for the actual book a good read definatley reccomend it
Published 21 months ago by mash
This will mess with your head
One of the best books I have read in a long time, and one that actually managed to freak me out. When a friend recommended it to me, knowing that it was the same author as Fight... Read more
Published 22 months ago by law geek
Unbelievable, repititive but readable
The novel takes the form of a diary written by former art-student, Misty, as she finds out some less savoury facts about her estranged husband and the community in which she lives. Read more
Published on 8 Oct 2008 by gm33
"Everything is a self-portrait"
Chuck Palahniuk's sixth novel takes the form a 'coma diary' written by Misty Wilmot, a washed-up art student whose husband, Peter, has been left unconscious after a botched... Read more
Published on 9 April 2007 by M. J. Pucci
Half baked pseudo-philosophy
This book really did not live up to its reviews. I was expecting great things after reading several of Palahniuk's other novels but the plot line and writing style of Diary left me... Read more
Published on 12 Dec 2006 by Hannah
Wrong side of a different track...
Diary is another of Mr P's extraordinary books, which will enthral and exhilarate readers from the first to the last page. Read more
Published on 4 Sep 2005 by Mr. S. Bowman
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Chuck spews out more ideas on one page than most writers do in a lifetime.
Published on 13 Dec 2004 by vendosian
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