Chuck Palahniuk
Hardcover | Pages: 316 pages Rating: 3.13 | 6718 Users | 764 Reviews
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| Title | : | Adjustment Day |
| Author | : | Chuck Palahniuk |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 316 pages |
| Published | : | May 1st 2018 by W. W. Norton & Company |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Contemporary |
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The author of Fight Club takes America beyond our darkest dreams in this timely satire.People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. They’ve been reading a mysterious book and memorizing its directives. They are ready for the reckoning.
Adjustment Day, the author’s first novel in four years, is an ingeniously comic work in which Chuck Palahniuk does what he does best: skewer the absurdities in our society. Smug, geriatric politicians bring the nation to the brink of a third world war in an effort to control the burgeoning population of young males; working-class men dream of burying the elites; and professors propound theories that offer students only the bleakest future.
When Adjustment Day arrives, it fearlessly makes real the logical conclusion of every separatist fantasy, alternative fact, and conspiracy theory lurking in the American psyche.
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| Original Title: | Adjustment Day |
| ISBN: | 0393652599 (ISBN13: 9780393652598) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://chuckpalahniuk.net/books/adjustment-day |
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Ratings: 3.13 From 6718 Users | 764 ReviewsArticle Appertaining To Books Adjustment Day
Palahniuk's best book since Lullaby. While the narrative is a bit jumbled, the paranoid libertarian fantasy world in the story is a brilliant extrapolation of today's political environment, and could only have been written by the author of Fight Club. Darkly funny and poignant.Im pleased to report a few months ahead of the scheduled publication date that this is classic Chuck; back with enough here to shock, offend and make us laugh all the same. The book follows a plot to completely upend the U.S. government and re-invent the nation into some Libertarian fantasyland, creating separatist ethno-states and violently dispersing wealth and prestige to the most violent and dedicated followers of a radical, new edict. From the far reaches of Caucasia, Blacktopia and Gaysia,
I LOVED Fight Club. Of course, I only saw the movie and didn't read the book. Totally brilliant! So, when I saw this, I thought I would be blown away and that there would be some awesome twisty stuff. But, neither of those things happened. It was disappointing.The set-up is a crazy end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it in the U.S.. There is a take-over and re-shuffling. It is parody of what is going on in our society, but it was a little over the top with silliness. I wished it was grittier, but it is
50 pages into this book, I was thinking, "Ah, Christ. So Mr. Palahniuk is weighing in on American politics too? Is fucking EVERYONE an expert now?"But then I read some more, and what he's doing is way more interesting. What I see happening on both sides of the real-world political fence is journalists, interviewers, reviewers and so on amping up the political side of every story. An artist releases a new album, and we're WAY more likely to hear about the artist's politics or projected viewpoint
It would perhaps be best to start my review of Chuck Palahniuk's newest novel, Adjustment Day, with a factual recap of the book's premise, since all my complex and hard-to-articulate opinions of the book stem from it. Namely, it posits a day after tomorrow in which the alt-right movement actually gets their shit together enough to pull off a successful armed revolution, after which they split the US up into a series of ethnostates (all whites in the north, all blacks in the south, all LGBTQ
This took me a week to read. I feel like he can be either amazing or pretty average. This dystopian style novel is very close to home ie USA. I felt like its tongue in cheekiness was too silly and over the top. The writing is top notch at times and I give him 2 stars for this. However for some reason we're getting a random explosion of dystopian novels. I think the overload is getting too much. I think diehard fans will eat this one up. People experiencing Chuck for the first time maybe stay
Adjustment Day was a big disappointment. I never really got the plot, there was just too many subplots and characters. I also didnt understand where he referenced his own works Fight Club and even his own name in comparison of other books like Dead Poets Society, Gone with the wind, and Great Gatsby. Please Chuck, spare us this narcissism. I have enjoyed many of Palahniuks books in the past but this one I could not justify wasting a day to finish after I have wasted 24$ to purchase the book.
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