![]() ![]() You'll laugh a few times, maybe, but you'll wince while you're laughing. If you fall into neither of those categories, I'll tell you that it's like a cross between Edward Abbey and Lenny Bruce, and you'll know what I mean: There's a certain philosophy underlying the story. It's a fast, bickering road trip of countercultural power plays through the arteriosclerotic heart of America, and it's in service of a twisted monkey wrench manifesto that will resonate happily with Palahniuk devotees or just about anyone who saw Fight Club. This quartet sets out to find and destroy all remaining copies of the culling rhyme - and the original grimoire from which the fatal verses were cribbed. ![]() We'll get back to it.) Further investigation brings Streator into cahoots with a real estate agent that specializes in haunted houses, the agent's earnestly Wiccan assistant, and the assistant's ecoterrorist boyfriend. The culling rhyme's included in a small-edition book called Poems and Rhymes From Around the World the rhyme, upon recitation, gently kills anyone within earshot. The plot concerns Carl Streator, a journalist who runs athwart an African "culling rhyme" while working on a story about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. And shouldering aside the likes of Stephen King and Clive Barker, he has unleashed another of his indictments of our times - only now he's using the hoary tenets of fantasy. ![]() The details of Chuck Palahniuk's latest novel are that the author of Invisible Monsters and Fight Club has, with his fifth book, crossed to the realms of the unreal. ![]()
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