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Invisible Monsters Remix (1999)

by Chuck Palahniuk(Favorite Author)

3.99 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0393083527 (ISBN13: 9780393083521)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

review 1: Invisible Monsters Contains Clear Messages If you’re ready to read something that’s equal parts deep and confusing, then this is the perfect story for you! Invisible Monsters is a skip-around story about the life of a mutilated ex-model. We follow her throughout her life, most of her tale taking place on a road trip with a transgender woman and her ex-husband. With each new destination, we watch the strange trio recreate their identities, steal drugs, and reveal their past to the reader. As we’re treated with flashbacks and jumps through time, we piece together the crazy life this woman is living, and when you think you’ve got it all figured out, you haven’t. The plot twists and turns that are taken make absolutely no sense in the beginning, but by the end of the... more book, you’ll sit back and think, “It all makes sense now.” In my opinion, Invisible Monsters can be seen at its best when you find its deep messages about the value of self-image in today’s society. It paints the true portrait of how important people find their image to be, and how desperate and how far they’re willing to go to maintain the perfect life they’ve always had. A quote to describe this would be, “All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.” However, strangely, some characters wish to destroy their image and escape their “perfect life.” This can be described with, “If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.” I recommend this book for those who want a story they can really dig deep into, because it provides a lot to think about after finishing. Overall, Invisible Monsters is an excellent book, and to find out more, you’re just going to have to read the book!
review 2: Ok fine, it's not a bad book. Chuck Palahniuk is good at stringing a story together in a track-wreck style: bits and pieces of information here and there to keep the readers engaged and confused and eager for answers. It's not a bad book. Or did I say that already? It's probably just me but I find Chuck Palahniuk unnecessarily descriptive when it comes to drugs, medical terms (this can be quite interesting sometimes), what's-Brandy-wearing, what's-in-the-house, how-to-feed-pigs-so-you-can-sell-them-at-a-higher-price-at-the-market. You call it scene-setting, I call it distractions. He dropped so many ambiguous names it's almost annoying. And I know he is writing about marginalised people and their miseries we normal people don't understand. But most of his characters are just doing things for the sake of doing it, and he'd come up with some cockamamie excuse for them. I can totally stomach it, but it's so hard to relate to the characters when Shannon blew her jaw off just so that she could start a new life, or Brandy went through various surgeries to 'make the biggest mistake of life so that i could escape from life'. Unlike Haunted, the shock element in the book is very subdued. The characters are not outright sick, but just when you thought they're almost-normal people like us, you realise they're twisted as fuck. I'm always open to having a little bit of fun when reading, but the three chapters that I had to read standing next to a huge mirror, because a hand-held-sized mirror just doesn't work, make me look so much like a crazy person. less

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