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Book Review of Choke

Choke
Choke
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 3


This book is really strange. A med school dropout sex addict whose day job is working at a colonial theme park supports his mother in elder care by choking at expensive restaurants and receiving the Heimlich Maneuver from patrons who then feel heroic and responsible for him and send him checks forever after. Distinctive, disturbing, gleeful, I kept shaking my head in disbelief - but I couldn't stop reading it. Neither for the prude nor the prurient, not as delicately perfectly hysterical as Hitchhiker's Guide but almost as strange.