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by: Chuck Palahniuk
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781400032815
ISBN: 1400032814
Label: Anchor
Manufacturer: Anchor
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: September 14, 2004
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date: September 14, 2004
Sales Rank: 14887
Studio: Anchor
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Product Description:
Misty Wilmot has had it. Once a promising young artist, she’s now stuck on an island ruined by tourism, drinking too much and working as a waitress in a hotel. Her husband, a contractor, is in a coma after a suicide attempt, but that doesn’t stop his clients from threatening Misty with lawsuits over a series of vile messages they’ve found on the walls of houses he remodeled.
Suddenly, though, Misty finds her artistic talent returning as she begins a period of compulsive painting. Inspired but confused by this burst of creativity, she soon finds herself a pawn in a larger conspiracy that threatens to cost hundreds of lives. What unfolds is a dark, hilarious story from America’s most inventive nihilist, and Palahniuk’s most impressive work to date.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Deceptively philosophical
This review is mostly a counter argument for some of the other reviews I've read for this work. I think the people who read Palahniuk for the gut wrenchingly horrifying and morbidly twisted, yet incredibly imaginative plot lines will be somewhat disappointed with this novel. It's not the most visceral of his works. Then again, a lot of people criticize him for focusing too much on just grossing people out, but claim that his books have no substance. So, this book will definitely prove those people ... Read More
Rating:  - Brilliant and visceral
Palahniuk's brutally honest look at the suffering of his creative protagonist is haunting and grips you right away. If you've grown up in a small beach town, you understand the love-hate relationship between locals and tourists. If you're an artist, you'll understand it even more. Palahniuk uses this as his backdrop and ultimately his driver for this compelling story of what one woman must do to escape her fate. The results surely do bring the house down in the final conclusion. I won't spoil ... Read More
Rating:  - ' I WANT MY MONEY BACK "
To think I paid full price for this piece of tripe at a bookstore and worse I also bought his book " Haunted " which I have yet to read, as I'm half afraid I would see more full price down the drain instead of the saving from Amazon .
If my library will take them that's where they will be donated ...let's hope they don't revoke my library card . perhaps a prison donation would be better ...reading inmates may sign up for a full frontal lobotomy after perusing these .
I had ... Read More
Rating:  - A disappointment.
This is the first novel of Palahniuk's that I have not been impressed with. (I am reading them in the order in which they were released, if that helps you know which ones that I have read so far.)
All of the other stories were commentary on contemporary issues relating to society and humanity. Those stories were sometimes a little gross and a little deliberately shocking, but it all seemed to serve the larger purpose of the book.
There are none of those elements in Diary. ... Read More
Rating: - Glad It Wasn't My First Palahniuk Book
If this had been my first Palahniuk book, I would have missed the awesome Invisible Monsters, Fight Club, Lullaby, and Choke.
Actually had I not just finished Invisible Monsters, I don't know if I could have trudged through this book.
This had many of the same themes as the other Palahniuk books but lacked the punch. Palahniuk books, historically, have felt like getting slapped upside the head with a brick made of my own mores. WHAM! Self-mutalation (Invisible Monsters) WHAM! ... Read More
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