Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk

'Invisible Monsters' is another of Chuck Palahniuk's post-'Fight Club' novels, recently reprinted by Vintage Press. In Palahniuk's agent's words, where 'Fight Club' is "hyper macho", 'Invisible Monsters' is "hyper-camp", and this is a pretty reasonable description. Where the cast of 'Fight Club' are almost entirely male, the main characters of 'Invisible Monsters' are female, and where the former is aggressive direct prose, the latter is more indirect, reminiscent of fashion magazines. In fact, Palahniuk says that he wrote a draft of the book several years before its publication, while ...  Read the complete review