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by jbsabbath - written on 07/12/08 (Very useful, 194 readings)
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"There's an opposite to deja vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar." That is pretty much how I felt each time I picked up "Choke" from the bedside table, sometimes returning to it after more than a week or so and only slogging through it now and again when I could be bothered. Certainly, Palahniuk's fourth publication didn't captivate me from the off and nor did it do so at any other point in the book, allowing me to stop reading and return to it much later without a trace of thinking I'd ...
by aaroncritic - written on 07/04/04
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Choke - a great book - Advantages: Chuck Palahniuk has once again used his clever writing style to create a story where you feel like youra part of it. - Disadvantages: None.
by inima - written on 03/06/02 (Very useful, 1071 readings)
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As a dyslexice, reading takes me forever. So when I do read a book, I live with it, literally for months, reading a page or two a day, living with the characters moment by moment. And I was strangely happy that Victor Mancini, the main narrator, was my virtual roomate for these last few weeks. The story - there isn't much to tell. It's about a guy who is anything but ordinary, and yet, you can empathise with him in your own way. You learn to realise that there is no such thing as ordinary, and everyone has their own strange habbits - maybe you could say that this what is ordinary. I don't want to go into the precise plot here - although ...
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