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Choke

By: Chuck Palahniuk
Narrated by: Chuck Palahniuk
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Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be “saved” by fellow patrons who, feeling responsible for Victor’s life, go on to send checks to support him. When he’s not pulling this stunt, Victor cruises sexual addiction recovery workshops for action, visits his addled mom, and spends his days working at a colonial theme park. His creator, Chuck Palahniuk, is the visionary we need and the satirist we deserve.Executive Producer: Dan Zitt
Producer: John McElroy
Jacket design by Rodrigo Corral
Jacket illustration by Bob Larkin
©2001 by Chuck Palahniuk
(P)2002 Random House, Inc. Dark Humor Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Psychological Comedy Funny Witty

Critic reviews

Praise for Chuck Palahniuk:

"Palahniuk is one of the freshest, most intriguing voices to appear in a long time. He rearranges Vonnegut's sly humor, DeLillo's mordant social analysis, and Pynchon's antic surrealism (or is it R. Crumb's?) into a gleaming puzzle palace all his own."
--Newsday

"Palahniuk displays a Swiftian gift for satire, as well as a knack for crafting mesmerizing sentences that loom with stark, prickly prose and repetitive rhythms."
--San Francisco Examiner

"Even I can't write this well."
--Thom Jones

"Palahniuk's language is urgent and tense, touched with psychopathic brilliance, his images dead-on accurate....[He] is an author who makes full use of the alchemical powers of fiction to synthesize a universe that mirrors our own fiction as a way of illuminating the world without obliterating its complexity."
--L.A. Weekly

"Maybe our generation has found its Don DeLillo."
--Bret Easton Ellis
Brilliant Storytelling • Thought-provoking Themes • Perfect Tone Match • Vivid Characters • Dark Humor • Relatable Flaws

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This is a voyeristic look into the oddities of society. The story is told with perfect a perfect combination of sarcasm and intelect.

The view from here

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This will be a struggle for some to read who are unfamiliar with Chucks work. Otherwise it's another amazing story.

Darker subjects are covered so be patient

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at the end of the book, the Author shared his reasons behind the wiring of this story that was cool thx

weird but interesting. 🙃

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I love this story and was happy to hear Chuck read it. Shame it's abridged.

Shame it's abridged

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This book was like a wild ride from start to finish. So many things coming from out of left field, and such powerful character development that compels you to love Victor in his flaws, and love Denny too haha.

A wild spiral ride

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