Over the Easter weekend I finished reading “Choke” by Chuck Palahniuk.  While the plot was meh in my opinion, the writing itself kept me interested enough to at least finish the book.

I despised the mom throughout the whole book.  Understandably she’s crazy, but the depth of her craziness is astounding.  Victor seems to have had it drilled into his head that he never deserved the kind of happiness he probably found/had in his foster homes and that’s why he always ran off to be with ‘the mommy’. The way he’s described as a little boy disturbed me as well.  Constantly calling him a little stupid shit and pathetic boy just bothered me.  Like he knew any different.

The amount of fake choking incidents actually presented in the book were few and far between.  I got a feel for how he’s perfected the art of ‘choking’ and making sure he didn’t get stabbed in the neck to make room for a tube.  But other than that, it seemed that the whole background was missing.  The entire story just seemed full of holes and gave teasers on bits of his life but never fleshed them out.  They were just small insights into his life that didn’t really help me understand why he was the way he was.  How was it that after paige tells him that he allegedly came from the flesh of Christ that he bought into the fact that he was the Second Coming?

Needless to say I hated the book and much prefer “Diary” or “Lullaby”.