With this new job I got a couple of months ago, I have a lot of down time where I have nothing to do. To fight the war on boredom, I have been reading a lot lately. One author I have been enjoying is Chuck Palahniuk. I have seen Fight Club, but enjoyed the book more than the film. Afterwards, I read Survivor (another great novel that you should check out if you enjoy his work).
I started Diary a couple days ago and from page one, I was hooked and done it in no time. The best way to describe this novel would probably be as a psychological horror with a unique sense of humor. A twisted sense of humor.
Without giving too much away, it is about a woman (Misty) who was supposed to have a successful career as an artist. She met a man, had a child with him and moved back to his hometown on Waytansea Island. The format of the novel is in the form of (you guessed it) a diary. It is narrated by Misty and supposed to be read by her husband (Peter) once he awakens from his coma, after a failed attempt at suicide. While trying to put the pieces together of her husbands attempted suicide, "she soon finds herself a pawn in a larger conspiracy that threatens to cost hundreds of lives."
"Reading a Palahniuk novel is like getting zipped inside a boxer's heavy bag while the author goes to work on you, pounding you until there is nothing left but a big bag of bones and blood and pain."
-THE MIAMI HERALD
Pretty much sums up his writing, if you haven't check his works out. Sometimes hard to read, but at the same time you have a hard time putting the book down!
Next on the Palahniuk chopping block for me ... Haunted
- ian
