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| Original Title: | Lullaby |
| ISBN: | 0099437961 (ISBN13: 9780099437963) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Carl Streator |
Chuck Palahniuk
Paperback | Pages: 260 pages Rating: 3.73 | 86642 Users | 2909 Reviews
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| Title | : | Lullaby |
| Author | : | Chuck Palahniuk |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 260 pages |
| Published | : | June 5th 2003 by Vintage (first published 2002) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Horror. Contemporary. Fantasy |
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Carl Streator is a reporter investigating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome for a soft-news feature. After responding to several calls with paramedics, he notices that all the dead children were read the same poem from the same library book the night before they died. It's a 'culling song' - an ancient African spell for euthanising sick or old people. Researching it, he meets a woman who killed her own child with it accidentally. He himself accidentally killed his own wife and child with the same poem twenty years earlier. Together, the man and the woman must find and destroy all copies of this book, and try not to kill every rude sonofabitch that gets in their way. Lullaby is a comedy/drama/tragedy. In that order. It may also be Chuck Palahniuk's best book yet.Rating Based On Books Lullaby
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Eudora Welty once said something to the effect that Southern gothic works because people in the South can still recognize grotesque. Chuck Palahniuk may be the vanguard of the post-modern gothic literary group as he can definitely recognize what is grotesque in our culture. Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me is an old saying that Palahniuk dissects and violates with an impish joy usually only seen in 8th grade biology. Centered around the unfortunate discovery ofAttention Readers of Edgy Black Writings, of Chuck PalahniukIf you've read Lullaby and have felt bored you are not alone.OKay, so this is my fourth Palahniuk book and I enjoyed the first three so much (Survivor, Choke, & Invisible Monsters)and I was very excited to read this. I got through most of it and felt really bored and unsatisfied. I mean I love the idea of the culling song and having the power to kill by voice even if you just say it in your head but I think the characters and the
Oh Chuck Palahniuk, why do the kids love you? Years and years and years have passed while I have worked in a bookstore and every single year is the same, some kind of cool hipster guy or girl will come in and ask for anything by Chuck Palahniuk, bestowing praises upon his writing. Okay, I get it. The hipsters love him. Brad Pitt was in a movie based on a Palahnuik book, which was about crazy wacky anarchy, which the young hipsters love.So, I finally sat myself down and cracked open this lovely
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can hurt like hell."Another great satirical/horror by Mr Chuck... 'Warning, if you have read this book and suffer bleeding hemorrhoids caused by sudden outbursts of laughter you may be eligible to participate in a class action law suit'.A childrens poem that has been quietly causing the death of infants, children, and their parents, turns out to be an ancient African culling song. A magical remedy that was originally intended to put the weak and
When you pick up a Chuck Palahniuk book you know that you are going to plunge ever-so-briefly into a raging torrent of absurdity, horror so whimsical that you laugh even as you cringe, and insightful looks at contemporary living. It seems a cheap shot to call his work formulaic, but once you've read through 6 or 7 of his books, the pattern emerges and you have a vague idea of what to expect.It was Lullaby that finally brought this realization home to me. You have the protagonist, a man who seems
The only Palahniuk book I've read to date, and I really liked it.
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