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Invisible Monsters, by Chuck Palahniuk
BicycleSkald Started conversation Apr 30, 2003
Okay, Fight Club was good. Nobody is gainsaying that. But Mr. Palahniuk's best work to date has to be Invisible Monsters. The main character, Shannon, is an ex-model whose lower jaw has been blown off in a freeway shooting. She was able to get by in the world on her looks, and the social power those looks afforded her. What follows is a funny and scathing tale of a former "Helen of Troy" going through beauty withdrawls as she travels the west coast of America with her (closeted) gay ex-boyfriend, and a transsexual bombshell named Brandy Alexander. Structurally, poetically, thematically, and in every important way this book is obscene and beautiful all at the same time.
On another note, Salome of the Tenements by Anzia Yezierska has to be the most boring &$&*&% I've ever read in my life. Don't bother with it.
Patrick, "BicycleSkald"
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