About this title: Victor works as a guide at a colonial village, where he must stay in 18th-century costume. He moonlights as a con artist. His mother is in a nursing home, and in his spare time Victor visits her and listens to her stories about the good old days when she and his father--whom Victor never knew--were in and out of jail. Then she begins to imply that Victor was conceived by means of a miracle involving the sacred foreskin of Jesus. What's Victor to believe?
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780099422686ISBN:0099422689
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2002
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780099535256ISBN:0099535254
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780224061902ISBN:0224061909
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: VINTAGE (AND PAST TIMES)
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780099422686ISBN:0099422689
Description: Published by Vintage (and Past Times) in 2000. Paperback. Number of pages: 304. Condition: Very Good. May show some slight signs of wear. #8448228 Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Format: Audio Cassette
Label: Books on Tape
Date: 2004
UPC:1415900620
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 01/01/2002
ISBN-13:9780099422686ISBN:0099422689
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Date Published: 05/07/2001
ISBN-13:9780224061902ISBN:0224061909
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Date Published: 05/07/2001
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 01/01/2002
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Date Published: 05/07/2001
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Date Published: 05/07/2001
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: VINTAGE Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780099535256ISBN:0099535254
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 304 pages. 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. (Paperback) read more
"If you are a fan of the film 'Fight Club', than this is the book for you! 'Fight Club' author, Chuck Palahniuk, tells a tale about Victor Mancini, a medical school drop out student who fakes choking to death at fancy restaurants to be 'saved' by unsuspecting people. Victor is also a sex addict, and works at a colonial theme park with drugged out hippies, and losers. His best pal is kind of a dimwit and masturbates a lot. There is so much going on within this book, with the characters, the sub plots, the situations, and the dark humor is outstanding. A great novel to read. Chuck Palahniuk is a great author and has a powerful storytelling craft. Pick this book up!"
"So much less terrifying than "Lullaby," I finally settled into a Palahniuk novel where I could laugh without feeling like I am going to hell. Even though much of the humor is subversive and at times disgusting, it's that psycho edge which is so compelling. There were times when I put this book down and thought I would give it a rest. But quickly, I found my self reading again just to find out where the author was going and by what bizarre means he would take me there. Having placed my mother in a nursing home and visited her almost daily, there were scenes in Choke that brought tears of recognition. But, the sex addict thing really struck close to home. Just kidding. Now, I ask you-who in their wrong mind would coalesce sex addiction and working in a Colonial America Theme Park? I am sure there is a philosophical relationship but all I saw was kick-ass humor. Like all of Palahniuks books the dark side is ever present. The main characters relationship with his institutionalized mother is tragic; his abuses as a child because of his mother's mental instability heart breaking, and his buddies obsession with rocks just downright weird. As I have said in some of my other Palahniuk comments: he loved in a dark unparallel universe. Great place to visit . . . wouldn't want to . . . well, you know."
"I enjoyed this as a Chuck Palahniuk book, but was decidedly "whelmed" (neither over nor under). I appreciate that he has a style, but "see also:" and "the first thing that comes to mind" were less involving motifs than Fight Club's hypnotic lost-dreamy "you wake up in" and visceral "I am Jack's", and couldn't hit the vapid disconnection of Invisible Monsters' "give me . FLASH". It came across as merely formulaic as opposed to really drawing me into the character. I realize a case could be made that it was an accurate portrayal of Victor's generally blase demeanor, and it probably wouldn't have come across as as much of a meaningless device if this had been my first Palahniuk book, but I've just seen better.
This is one where I'm curious to see the film adaptation, but won't be returning to like Lullaby or Invisible Monsters or Fight Club. Oh, and I did go through the audiobook version - Chuck shouldn't be allowed to read his own work, if anybody's. I've heard authors breathe life into their own novels (see: Douglas Adams, Steve Martin) - Chuck flattened even flat characters further than seemed appropriate.
Bottom line: formulaic and unnecessary, but containing enough winning quips to warrant a quick once-over."
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