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Survivor

By Chuck Palahniuk

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| Paperback | 9780099282648

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Survivor, the second novel by Chuck Palahniuk--whose debut novel The Fight Club was widely received to critical acclaim--is a deranged comedy of nightmares, a groin-kick at Western society's worst excesses. This is satire at its best, and Palahniuk handles it all with a distinct, engaging prose stylContinue

Survivor, the second novel by Chuck Palahniuk--whose debut novel The Fight Club was widely received to critical acclaim--is a deranged comedy of nightmares, a groin-kick at Western society's worst excesses. This is satire at its best, and Palahniuk handles it all with a distinct, engaging prose style and with plot devices that keep the pages turning long after your tea break should have finished.

From the very opening of the book Palahniuk lets us know that his narrator, Tender Branson, the last surviving member of a religious death cult, is on a path to self-destruction. The tension in this book lies not in the outcome, because like Tender's soothsaying friend Fertility, we can see it coming 289 pages away, instead it lies in the intricate plot that takes Tender from farm boy to media celebrity and ruin.

This is a novel that examines what happens when religion meets the overindulgences of our consumerist society. In the world that the author envisages, which is all too real in the light of tragedies such as Waco and the Heaven's Gate suicides, the only acceptable religions are those that can be successfully marketed and controlled at a corporate level; the small separatist models of religion are superfluous, and self-destruct. This is also a look at religion itself, at how it can enslave as many people as it appears to liberate. A comic novel that deals with the most serious issues of society, Survivor places Palahniuk among the most daring and technically able writers of his generation.

Critics

  • Survivor

    Attenzione, perché ogni pagina di questo romanzo ti lega, ti imprigiona, svelandoti quel che ti sta negando e che ti stai negando. Iniziare a raccontare è l’ultima cosa che ha fatto Branson nella vita, prima di morire in un incidente aereo sul volo c ... (read full critics)

    sololibri published on Fri, 13 Apr 2012

  • Survivor

    Tender Branson racconta la storia della sua vita direttamente da un aereo, il Volo 2039, che sta precipitando inesorabilmente sul deserto australiano. Come in un conto alla rovescia esistenziale – le pagine ed i capitoli sono numerati all’indietro - ... (read full critics)

    mangialibri published on Sat, 18 Feb 2012

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    Very weird story. I thought the ending would be much more meaningful or big or something. Some how it was just anti-climatic for me.

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    Deanna Kyre said on Oct 3, 2008 | Add your feedback

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    I thought the entire book was amazing until the end. I wasn't very fond of the ending, which is usually my thoughts after reading a Chuck Palahniuk book, but even with me not liking the ending, I still think this is my favorite book I've ever read by him. If you like Chuck Palahniuk and haven't read ... (continue)

    I thought the entire book was amazing until the end. I wasn't very fond of the ending, which is usually my thoughts after reading a Chuck Palahniuk book, but even with me not liking the ending, I still think this is my favorite book I've ever read by him. If you like Chuck Palahniuk and haven't read this book, make sure you do.

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    Mandi Mae said on Mar 7, 2008 | Add your feedback

  • Geniale e destabilizzante. Supera Choke, finora il mio preferito, nella rosa dei Palahniuk migliori. È incredibile quanto si possa leggere velocemente, e al tempo stesso quanto bruci il suo passaggio.

    "If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patte ... (continue)

    Geniale e destabilizzante. Supera Choke, finora il mio preferito, nella rosa dei Palahniuk migliori. È incredibile quanto si possa leggere velocemente, e al tempo stesso quanto bruci il suo passaggio.

    "If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can’t decipher. What we can’t understand we call nonsense. What we can’t read we call gibberish.
    There is no free will.
    There are no variables.
    There is only the inevitable. There’s only one future. You don’t have a choice.
    The bad news is we don’t have any control.
    The good news is you can’t make any mistakes."

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    The Trash Palace said on May 5, 2009 | Add your feedback

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