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"Before you know it as the years go by, you're just like other people you have seen, with all those peculiar human ailments. Just another vehicle for temper and vanity and rashness and all the rest. Who wants it? Who needs it? These things occupy the place where a man's soul should be." -- Henderson the Rain King

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Survivor

"I'm a Survivor, I'm Not Gon' Give Up..."

Book numero dozen was Chuck Palahniuk's Survivor.

I have to admit that I think all of Chuck Palahniuk's books are pretty much identical. You either like his writing style in which case you'll probably dig them all, or you hate it in which case you should just watch Fight Club and call it good. I'm pro-Chuck and despite my claim that all of the books are similar I'd have to put Survivor high on the list of my favorite Chuck books.

The story is about a man named Tender Branson who's the last survivor of a religious cult called the Creedish (think Heaven's Gate)...and here I thought Creed-ish was just a good way to describe a really crappy band. Anyways, I was going to provide some very artculate well thought out details about the plot, but damn if the always excellent Wikipedia hasn't already scooped me with a lucid summary of the entire book, including a explanation of the surprise(?)/ambigious ending from Palahniuk himself.

For some reason the Wikipedia summary neglects to mention the fascinating PornFill - aka the Tender Branson Sensitive Materials Sanitary Landfill - a truly Palahniukian idea which consists of a 20,000 acre repository for the nation's discarded porn. Between the PornFill and the hi-jacked plane that Branson plans on crashes into Australia it's no wonder Survivor hasn't yet made it to the big screen.

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