Survivor

TwoShedsJackson

Anyone who fancies a break from the run o the mill fiction cobblers, get Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk (who also wrote Fight Club).

The only survivor of a mass suicide by the cult he was in, is tortured by media fame and decides to end it all. The book starts as he screams his life story into the black box of a crashing Boeing 747.

It's definitely in the realms of literary fiction i.e. it's pretty oblique most of the time, but well worth checking out.

Also try Hart's War by John Katzenbach - a whodunnit type thriller set in a POW camp during World War II, setting makes a change fromt the usual, and altho I'm 3/4 of the way through it, I have absolutely no clue whodunnit

pox

palahniuk blew me away with fight club.
the film was, for me, about the most
faithful reproduction/interpretation
that could have been asked for (for such
a disjointed anarchic storyline).

Thanks to your post mr troy, Im going
to go and by survivor this afternoon.

ta


PS. has anyone ever read Cows by Mathew
stokoe? depraved visceral and nauseating.
I accidently read it whilst laid up
in hospital recently, and I had to give
it away after I'd finished it. way too
****in sick for me. forget banks, this is
unreal.

pox

addendum to previous post:

apart from that ****ing fight club
ending. although visually fantastic, and
accompanied by what is for me, one of
best pieces of music ever written, it
was waaaaaaaay off.

WhiteWashMan

I accidently read it whilst laid up
in hospital recently

how do you accidently read a book?

IgnatiusJRiley

Survivor: my favourite book EVER