Originally Posted by boondockdrunk

Maybe I like books too much. Finished this one in a day.

Choke by Chuck Palahniuk (P. 293)

Victor Mancini is a hopeless anti-hero for our fanatical era. While he works at a colonial theme park in order to pay his bills, his salary does not cover the care for his elderly mother. So he comes up with a creative con: he pretends to choke on pieces of food at restaurants, then allows people to ‘save’ him, and these ‘heroes’ later send him money as they feel a certain responsibility for his well being. When he is not pulling this scam on people, Victor searches sexual addiction recovery workshops for action.

The reader of this book is fairly warned, as the first sentence states: “If you’re going to read this, don’t bother.” Choke is a novel that starts off as predictable and later slides into a work of art that has ingenious surprises popping out of the most unlikely of places. Nothing is as it seems in Victor’s world, and the only constant in his world is that there is no constant.

Choke is a book that makes one ponder the ideas of materialism and whether anything is worth… well… anything at all. A wonderful work of art that only Chuck Palahniuk can pull off, Choke is one of the most inspiring novels of the new millennia.
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I would also like to note that if anyone wants me to read something feel free to make suggestions. However, I refuse to read any book by Jenna Jameson or Pamela Anderson.