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Survivor (part 2)

Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Reviews

I fin­ished read­ing Chuck Palahniuk’s Sur­vivor last night and con­trary to my early thoughts on the book; I did end up sort of lik­ing the book. It’s not what I would call a good read at all, but rather the story seems to sud­denly get inter­est­ing once you’re about halfway through.

Kind of like you’re on a long road trip; it’s been rain­ing for the last hour; the sky sud­denly clears up, just in time to give you a per­fect view of a mas­sive, bloody car acci­dent up ahead. You don’t really want to look, but you do anyway.

Over­all, I’d say this book is worth 2.75 points out of 5.

For now, I’ve gone back to read­ing Mas­ter­pieces: The Best Sci­ence Fic­tion of the 20th Cen­tury and am roughly halfway through. So far none of the sto­ries in the col­lec­tion have been stinkers, but here’s plenty of read­ing left to do and no more time for writ­ing as I have to dash off to work.

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