Choke: A Novel

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Ten-plus years ago, my brother joked that the best place to meet women was at support groups for sexually irresponsible people. Once at a toga party, I was drinking with a friend, Cindy, and she said, "Let me tell you about my mother. My mother gets married a lot." It was such a great line I used it in "Invisible Monsters." I knew exactly what Cindy meant. The first was at an Olive Garden with my mother, where an extremely lanky busboy had to give me the Heimlich to dislodge a chunk of poorly chewed steak consumed during a meal of Alfredo. his books all share similar themes, but i find this to be at the top of the list. i think it's tied with haunted as his best work, and i think it's actually a more accomplished book than fight club. it's much richer.

A standalone novel from Stuart Woods, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stone Barrington and Holly Barker series...

On the tape, his fiancée was drunk and bringing home guy after guy—to his bed. The second-hardest thing he’s ever done was confronting her with the tape and ending their engagement. The Choke is a mesmerising, harrowing and ultimately uplifting novel from the 2015 Miles Franklin winner. The reader can’t help but foresee how Justine is doomed to suffer from her surroundings. Sofie Laguna teases the reader with the possibility that Justine’s Aunt will intervene and save the day but regretfully that happens after much agony for Justine and the reader. In the second part of the book, things get even worse for Justine, being ten in the first part, but now entering high school at 13, where she never actually even goes in the school gates and becomes a victim once again, not even understanding what her recently started periods mean or the fact that she has been raped and is pregnant. It is indeed a harrowing read, but Justine is such a survivor that she has us all rooting for her. Her journey is so well written by Ms Laguna, I look forward to reading her previous novel, The Eye of the Sheep.

Becoming the Mask: Victor soon notes that, while sobbing onto his "rescuers" plays a large part in his act, he soon finds comfort in a stranger briefly hugging and calming him. Everybody in my family does something compulsively. My brother exercises. My mother gardens. I write. That’s part of the reason why I was at this meeting. Se vi aspettate un linguaggio formale e pulito, avete sbagliato libro. Ma anche in questo Palahniuk è costante. Le espressioni sboccate, il sesso ovunque, la degradazione al massimo livello, son tutti elementi che se all'inizio fan storcere il naso a chi non è abituato, di pagina in pagina diventano elementi indispensabili della storia. E la rendono completa: l'ennesimo ribaltamento del libro. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2021-06-29 13:01:30 Boxid IA40155722 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifierThis the fifth book I've read by him and I wasn't the least bit thrilled. I hate it when authors get formulaic. And I hate it even more when it's from an author that I really really like. I can't read Dean Koontz, Michael Crichton, and others because of this. And loved their stories! It's just that I figured them out. I knew what to expect. And what's even worse than that, is that I knew who the characters would be. I knew their mannerisms, their quirks, their motivations. Just look what happened to Shyamalan when he wanted to tell a good story, just without a twist. People didn't want that. He's a good writer and story teller, but people now want only one thing from him: a Fight Club-esque twist. Isn't this the type of thing that his characters actually fight against? To turn the mores and expectations of society on their ears? And here he is, pandering to that. Il suo scrivere è grottesco,schietto, folle,irriverente, blasfemo e volgare....un pugno allo stomaco che arriva quando meno te lo aspetti. A well written book that is easy to follow and keeps the reader interested. The plot moves along nicely and Sofie Laguna uses conversations and thoughts from Justine, the main character, to provide essential context to the story. It’s a gruelling story that is sad and evokes a great deal of empathy for Justine.

The story is set in country Victoria in the late 1950s. The story is told by Justine aged from 9 to 14 years. Justine is an innocent, neglected, deprived, young girl, with no-one around her but men and certainly no one to explain life to her. She is dyslexic and can’t verbalise her thoughts and questions... "I never had words to ask anybody the questions, so I never had the answers." E fin qui si potrebbe forse credere che Choke – Soffocare non mi sia piaciuto, che io sia rimasto deluso. Invece così non è stato. I would imagine it’s really only been in recent times that women are sufficiently educated, supported through their society and taught how to deal with unplanned pregnancies. Once again, it highlights the importance of a stable family and a basic education for everyone. No paragraphs...only phrases. It's hard to feel like youre reading a complete thought, when....you're not. During this time, a friend introduced me to a woman. This was at breakfast in a restaurant, and it was funny because her name was Marla. Like Marla Singer in "Fight Club." I’d never met a real Marla, and it turned out she’s a therapist who works with sexual compulsives. Piece by piece, the ideas and themes of "Choke" were coming together.If you are looking for a book about redemption, this isn't it. Victor is a failed med student who is riddled with psychological problems raging from sexual addiction to severe childhood trauma. He wanders through life searching desperately for meaning, purpose and hope... all while fighting to keep from being a "good guy." The only truly multidimensional character in the story is Victor, and the book is told stream of conscious from Victor's point of view. Victor behaves badly and fights to mentally defend his behavior to both the reader and himself. We swap between the current day and his childhood, or actually his memories of his childhood which are told with a bitterness not toward his mentally unstable mother, but toward himself. In questo libro il tema è la dipendenza dal sesso. Victor Mancini fa parte di uno di quei gruppi stile alcolisti anonimi in cui tutti cercano di disintossicarsi. « Ciao sono Victor, e sono un sex addict» Romance and Sexuality Separation: Victor, a sex addict can't sleep with his mother's doctor Paige because he actually has an emotional connection to her. Many times I found myself laughing out loud in the beginning, the easily flowing storyline pulled me in immediately and managed to cover up the nasty truth for a while: in this novel everyone is desperately lonely and lost, trying to find something to cling to while navigating the bleakness of everyday life. Soon that sense of ease turned into something suffocating leaving me with knots in my stomach till the very end. Victor accidentally kills his mother, is arrested, and is run out of town by the people who fell for his scam. Doctor Marshall turns out to be an insane patient at the nursing home, but realizes it at the book's end. Denny's building/sculpture/masterpiece is destroyed by a freak earthquake. The four main characters are left standing in the ruins.