From the author of the cult sensation Fight Club (now a major motion picture starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter) comes Survivor.
"A turbo-charged, deliciously manic satire of contemporary American life." --Newsday
"The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage," according to the "been there, done that" wisdom of Tender Branson, l...
From the author of the cult sensation Fight Club (now a major motion picture starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter) comes Survivor.
"A turbo-charged, deliciously manic satire of contemporary American life." --Newsday
"The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage," according to the "been there, done that" wisdom of Tender Branson, last surviving member of the Creedish Death Cult. At the opening of Chuck Palahniuk's hilariously unnerving second novel, Tender is cruising on autopilot, 39,000 feet up, dictating the whole of his life story into Flight 2039's "black box" in the final moments before crashing into the vast Australian outback.
Not since Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night has there been as dark and telling a satire on the wages of fame and the bedrock lunacy of the modern world. Wickedly incisive and mesmerizing, Survivor is Chuck Palahniuk at his deadpan peak.
最近记忆奇差,过目即忘,所以且看且写下点笔记: 1. 是Chuck一贯的扭曲的小人物故事。‘幻灭感’是不变的基调。从"Fight Club" 的 "We are God's unwanted children";到 "Survivor" 的 "the truth is we can be orphaned again and again"。从"Haunted"的"All your problems...
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0 有用 moviejunkie 2008-05-18 20:09:47
chuck最好的小说之一
0 有用 柏闷骚 2010-11-01 16:19:29
句句都能当签名啊
0 有用 Amelia 2020-07-18 02:58:09
看Paulanick书的时候很难不去怀疑他是不是一个psychopath,太佩服他这种satire和想象能力了。
0 有用 aTree 2011-09-14 14:05:15
不太喜欢
0 有用 单行道逆行大师 2011-05-20 23:18:33
不好笑