Invisible Monsters. (Vintage) (Taschenbuch) von Chuck Palahniuk   Rezensionen: When the plot of yourfirst novelpartially hinges on anarchist overthrows funded by soap sales, and the narrative hook of yoursecond workis the black box recorder of a jet moments away from slamming into the Australian outback, it stands to reason that your audience is going to be ready for anything. Which, to an author like Chuck Palahniuk, must sound like a challenge. Palahniuk's third identity crisis (that's "novel" to you),Invisible Monsters, more than ably responds to this call to arms. Set once again in an all-too-familiar modern wasteland where social disease and self-hatred can do more damage than any potboiler-fiction bad guy, the tale focuses particularly on a group of drag queens and fashion models trekking cross-country to find themselves, looking everywhere from the bottom of a vial of Demerol to the end of a shotgun barrel. It's a sort ofDrugstore Cowboy-meets-Yentlaffair, or a Hope-Crosby road movie with a skin graft and hormone-pill obsession, if you know what I mean. Um, yeah. Anyway, the Hollywood vibe doesn't stop these comparisons. As withFight ClubandSurvivor, the book is invested with a cinematic sweep, from the opening set piece, which takes off like a house afire (literally), to a host of filmic tics sprayed throughout the text: "Flash," "Jump back," "Jump way ahead," "Flash," "Flash," "Flash." You get the idea. It's as if Palahniuk didn't write the thing but yanked it directly out of the Cineplex of his mind's eye. Does it succeed? Mostly. Still working on measuring out the proper dosages of his many writerly talents (equal parts potent imagery, nihilistic coolspeak, and doped-out craziness), Palahniuk every now and then loosens his grip on the story line, which at points becomes as hard to decipher as your local pill addict's medicine cabinet. HoweverInvisible Monstersworks best on a roller-coaster level. You don't stop and count each slot on the track as you're going down the big hill. You throw up your hands and yell,"Whee!"--Bob Michaels-- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe:Taschenbuch © 1998-2001 Amazon.com, Inc. und Tochtergesellschaften Alle Rezensionen ansehen...   Angebote zu  Invisible ,  Monsters ,  Vintage  ab 1 Euro! Siehe auch folgende Artikel: Survivor. (Vintage) (Vintage) von Chuck Palahniuk Choke. (Vintage) von Chuck Palahniuk Lullaby von Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club: A Novel von Chuck Palahniuk Mehr zu  Transgender,  Family Saga,  United States Home ...,    Angebote ansehen ...,    Begleitseite ... Herausgeber dieser Seite ist DomainLoc.com GmbH - Partner von Amazon.de Copyright © DomainLoc.com GmbH (Impressum)