Lullaby | Chuck Palahniuk

Lullaby | Chuck Palahniuk | as good as fightclub

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Lullaby

	Lullaby Chuck Palahniuk Anchor, 2002 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 267 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Ever heard of a culling song? It?s a lullaby sung in Africa to give a painless death to the old or infirm. The lyrics of a culling song kill, whether spoken or even just thought. You can find one on page 27 of Poems and Rhymes from Around the World, an anthology that is sitting on the shelves of libraries across the country, waiting to be picked up by unsuspecting readers.

Reporter Carl Streator discovers the song?s lethal nature while researching Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, and before he knows it, he?s reciting the poem to anyone who bothers him. As the body count rises, Streator glimpses the potential catastrophe if someone truly malicious finds out about the song. The only answer is to find and destroy every copy of the book in the country. Accompanied by a shady real-estate agent, her Wiccan assistant, and the assistant?s truly annoying ecoterrorist boyfriend, Streator begins a desperate cross-country quest to put the culling song to rest.

Written with a style and imagination that could only come from Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby is the latest outrage from one of our most exciting writers at work today.

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By the balls

This book grabbed me by the balls until I was done. I normally take a few months to get through a book, like Choke, but this was about a week. I would have only liked more main characters to die.

as good as fightclub

i admit it.. chuck palahniuk is not for everyone, but for those who can stomach him .. he is brilliant.. borderline sick but over the board genius... lulaby is as good as fight club if not better..

the plot is brilliant, it is fast paced and entertaining with its fair share of the Palahniuk wisdom .. and although the plot is full of clues and giveaways, at least i myself did not see the surprises coming.. and the make perfect sense.. and although lulaby is based on a stretch of fiction, chuck palahniuk makes it very believable...

don't read other people's summary of the plot it will ruin it for you.. if you liked fightclub the movie or the book, you will love lullaby

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Unexpected dark humor... how can you resist?

This my first time reading Palahniuk. To say that he's unique is an understatement. "Lullaby" starts with normal characters but rapidly unfolds into the strangest world imaginable. The pages turn quickly to build a unique place with strange events. Dark humor seeps unexpectedly from aberrant places. The reality presented becomes distorted and twisted, molded into a strange, mystical actuality. At times, as other reviewers mentioned, I felt that I was not be getting the full dramatic effect out of my reading, as if I couldn't grasp what was occurring. Although, by completion, the novel spoke to me with a depth and intensity I have not experienced before. For those who have read the Amazon review, I agree that Chuck Palahniuk expresses potent themes on human control and nature through "Lullaby". I recommend this novel to those seeking impact and an ending you will reflect on.
Thank you for reading,
C.K.

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