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Choke

By Chuck Palahniuk

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| eBook | 9781446484029

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Victor Mancini has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mother's hospital care: pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who 'saves you' will feel responsible for you for the rest of their lives. Multiply that a couple of hundred times and you generate a healthy fContinue

Victor Mancini has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mother's hospital care: pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who 'saves you' will feel responsible for you for the rest of their lives. Multiply that a couple of hundred times and you generate a healthy flow of cheques, week in, week out. Victor also works at a theme park with a motley group of losers, cruises sex addiction groups for action, and visits his mother, whose Alzheimer's disease now hides what may be the startling truth about his parentage.

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  • 'Choke' by Chuck Palahniuk

    To be honest, I bought this book on the strength of it's opening line: "If you're going to read this, don't bother." This wry tone lasts throughout the entire novel, which is at times laugh-out-loud funny, though the humour is about as black as it co ... (read full critics)

    readingmatters published on Mon, 27 Sep 2010

  • Playing the choker

    Choke Chuck Palahniuk Jonathan Cape £10, pp293 Chuck Palahniuk prefaces this book with a warning: 'If you are going to read this, don't bother. After a couple of pages, you won't want to be here. So forget it. Go away. Get out while you are still in ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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    The second of Palahniuk's books that I ever read, following Fight Club. A sharply witty look at the motives of human kindness and our deepest, darkest sexual desires. Also allowed me to win a forty-dollar bet by including the author's line about John Dillinger's "12-inch-monster" in my term paper ab ... (continue)

    The second of Palahniuk's books that I ever read, following Fight Club. A sharply witty look at the motives of human kindness and our deepest, darkest sexual desires. Also allowed me to win a forty-dollar bet by including the author's line about John Dillinger's "12-inch-monster" in my term paper about the 1930's criminal icon.

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    Chezmerelda said on Aug 13, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • Someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff.

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    Alex said on Jul 18, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • Really enjoyed this book, found myself laughing aloud while in coffee shops.

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    Alegrya said on Jan 2, 2010 about the Paperback edition | 1 feedback

  • I was very disappointed with this book. I thought the dialog was horrible, and the ending was even worse. I think he threw in too many twists to try and make it interesting, but actually ruined the story.

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    Mandi Mae said on Jan 15, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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