Beautiful You

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Narrated by: Carol Monda

From the author of Fight Club, the classic portrait of the damaged contemporary male psyche, now comes this novel about the apocalyptic marketing possibilities of female pleasure. Beautiful You is Palahniuk's much-anticipated satire of the emerging erotic thriller genre, a mash-up of mommy porn and chick lit à la Sex and the City, and fantasy lit à la Clan of the Cave Bear. Imagine if Ira Levin had a baby with Jean Auel.

Penny Harrigan is a low-level associate in a big Manhattan law firm with an apartment in Queens and no love life at all. So it comes as a great shock when she finds herself invited to dinner by one C. Linus Maxwell, aka "Climax-Well", a software mega-billionaire and lover of the most gorgeous and accomplished women on earth. After dining at Manhattan's most exclusive restaurant, he whisks Penny off to a hotel suite in Paris, where he proceeds, notebook in hand, to bring her to previously undreamed-of heights of orgasmic pleasure for days on end. What's not to like? This: Penny discovers that she is a test subject for the final development of a line of sex toys to be marketed in a nationwide chain of boutiques called Beautiful You. So potent and effective are these devices that women by the millions line up outside the stores on opening day and then lock themselves in their room with them and stop coming out. Except for batteries. Maxwell's plan for erotically enabled world domination must be stopped. But how?

©2014 Chuck Palahniuk (P)2014 Recorded Books

This was fucking great

Really great book with a unique plot. The reading was really nice and it had some beer nice suprise twists

Not my favorite, but still ok.

I LOVE Chuck.. but this one was a little too far out there, even for him!

A book for the ladies

A surprise for sure, I enjoy the books very much and can never go wrong with this author he is always surprises me!

Wow!

The story was a wild ride. I absolutely loved the reading, writing, and audio!

So dirty, so hilarious

Marry me, Chuck? This makes 50 Shades of Grey seem like Green Eggs and Ham!

Spoilers

It ends with a vagina screaming. literally. The vagina screams... and Ron Howard is assumed to become a sex god.

great

stunningly weird as always. chuck at his shocking best. the narration is refreshing and spot on, the ending is unexpected to say the least.

Wow

I was not prepared for the subject matter. Started listening on a whim. I found it surprisingly good.

crazy amazing

I didn't even read the story line preview. I saw Chuck write it abs knew it was going to be great. He never disappoints and ALWAYS keeps me wanting more!

So weird

Every time I had to pause this book to continue with my life I thought "what the f**k just happened?" This book is heavily sexual, some points to nauseating lengths. Like way sexier than Christian Grey and nastier than eating humans. Yet I couldn't stop listening even when I found myself saying ew ew ew out loud at work. It was a really great read. If you like indie films like Horns and Blue is the Warmest Color you'll probably still be freaked out. Happy listening. Don't play this out loud in front of kids, parents, or anyone in he generally normal population.