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Choke: A Novel

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Marshall who tells him, his mother needs a stomach tube to keep her alive which is quite expensive for Victor. In accordance with the Biblical laws of Leviticus, after the boy confessed he was forced to watch each animal being slaughtered.

The ending had a bit of a rushed feel to it, and this was back in the days when people knew they should have safe sex but didn't, which always makes me question their judgment. If this was a movie, I would have half expected some soaring violin strings to clue me in that this is an important moment.After Victor finds out she's been lying to him, she apologizes and admits to her lie but then she claims that she traveled back in time and that is why she is looking for someone to impregnate her so she can go back to the future and destroy the plague destroying her world. If you've seen Fight Club the movie, you know how compelling those little tidbits sound when spoken out loud. If a book was interesting enough to finish, made you laugh, think and made you a bit uncomfortable or empathic at times, I'd say it's done the trick. I could bring up other problems, but this probably a good measure of some of my objections: shallow "messages," poor characterization, unimaginative plotting.

After a discussion between Victor and Denny about his erection issue with Paige, he realizes he loves Paige. Of course, I'm not an authority on literature other than being a heavy reader like a lot of the rest of us here, so that's really just my two cents as a Palahniuk reader. Everyone who is looking for optimal performance would benefit from reading it and implementing its principles.In my idea, the main character of Choke, Victor, somehow is a more polished version of Holden Caulfield in Catcher and the Rye by J. The two detectives find themselves barely afloat in a shark infested investigation that stretches from the Florida Keys to Los Angeles and back. She sheds new light on counterintuitive realities, like why the highest performing people are most susceptible to choking under pressure, why we may learn foreign languages best when we’re not paying attention, why early childhood athletic training can backfire, and how our emotions can make us both smarter and dumber. It often turns out to be stuff like, "You shouldn't hold on to your pain," which is good advice--it was good advice 2000 years ago when Jesus and Buddha were telling parables to illustrate this point--but isn't really going to rock my world.

I have read enough about Amy Hempel to be intrigued and definitely plan on checking out her work at some point. Through the flashbacks, we learn that when Victor was a child, his mother taught him about conspiracy theories and weird medical facts which confused and frightened him.And when I say his plot is secondary, I don't mean it in the way the plot was secondary (or nonexistant) in Ethan Frome. Perhaps Palahniuk even intended that to be a possible interpretation of the character, and I'm just too dense to notice.

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