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Invisible Monsters | 
 enlarge | Author: Chuck Palahniuk
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Book
List Price: £7.99
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Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 6599
Media: Paperback
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0099285444
EAN: 9780099285441
ASIN: 0099285444
Publication Date: November 2, 2000
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 Amazing! So intense it will stop you from sleeping! September 2, 2008
Kevin Kale (London, England)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
As someone who has recently completed a BA in English Literature it shocks (and worries) me that I can barley even begin articulate just how incredible this book is. Recommend to me by a friend, I was at first sceptical because of the book's basic premise i.e. - the story of a disfigured fashion model, which sounded slightly vacuous and shallow to me. I was extremely wrong! This is a great meaty read, almost overflowing with substance. The text is a great example of literary postmodernism and as such presents a fervent and continuous challenging of our societies established notions of gender, of sexuality, and most definitely of narrative and our assumptions about how a story should be told. In this latter respect I found "Invisible Monsters" reminiscent to the works of Jeanette Winterson, particularly "The Powerbook" and "Lighthousekeeping".
A word of warning though, do not read this novel before you go to bed. I did and for two nights running it seriously disrupted my sleep, which is a testament to just how intense Shannon's narrative is. You will be so totally absorbed into the darkness and twisted logic of her world it becomes very difficult to escape yourself!!
The novel does have its lighter moments though with some great laugh-out-loud comedy, particularly coming from Shannon's parents and their zealous and overcompensative crusade for gay-rights.
An intensely dark, disturbing and thought-provoking classic for our times!
i ruined it for myself but its a good book March 17, 2008
C. Watson (surrey, uk)
I decided to read this after reading Diary and fight club.
This book is so intense that I really wound myself up and got really anxious about what would happen. I then actually decided to read the end before I got there just to relieve the tension...which was a stupid idea. Cause the end is really good.
just..
dont do that.
but read the book. Its difficult to get your head around palahniuks writing technique at first with the charachters incoherent and nihilistic thoughts but its still awesome.
see through good November 1, 2007
Carrie Nashion (Glasgow)
23 out of 26 found this review helpful
i was so impressed by this book that i will now be reading everything Chuck Palahniuk wrote. He's now one of my favorite writers, along with Christopher Moore and Jackson McCrae.
"Invisible Monsters" is a really twisted work that everyone should read. You WILL be put off by some of the humor and references to sex, but that's part of Palahniuk's deal. I can tell you, even if you don't like some of the sections in this book, the coming together at the end makes up for it.
The basic idea of the book is about a fashion model who has become disfigured. Palahniuk uses fashion-type references throughout and the word "Flash!" to denote the fashion world or the remnants of it. A truly well thought out book from cover to cover. I would also recommend the Christopher Moore book "Practical Demon Keeping" and the McCRae "Katzenjammer" for other equally entertaining reads.
Wierd, but amazing October 12, 2007
Zoe and Emma (England)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
It is so messed up, no one is who you think they are.
Every so often their is a new shock and your like "OMG".
I really enjoyed it and i shall be recommending it to all my friends.
Best of Palahniuk March 7, 2007
Ms. T. L. Markham (Berkshire, England)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Firstly i'd just like to say this is quite possibly the best book i have ever read; Palahniuk perserveres with a ruthless intensity in telling the story and ,prehaps more importantly, conveying the key message that lies within: Beauty may get you power, but it can't get you everything.
And sure, some people may say that it's a case of Chuck foucusing on style rather than the content, but in this case the story itself is so strong it's stylised nature does little towards it.
so if your wondering of reading this book then yes, you should. Not only is it a page turner, but it's also a beautiful story of love, friendship and (rather more negativly) mutilation to escape your self.
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