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Lullaby
by: Chuck Palahniuk

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780099437963
ISBN: 0099437961
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: June 05, 2003
Publisher: Vintage
Studio: Vintage
Sales Rank: 21516

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Awesome!!
This book is written on so many levels that it keeps the reader's attention throughout.
This was my first novel by this author, it was recommended to me by a colleague at work; I am forever greatful.
It has opended my eyes to a way of writing that has provided an escape that turns and takes the reader on a journey they will never forget.
I can't wait to read more titles and I had never known about.

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- Arresting
Lullaby was an absolutely fantastic read. Having read and thoroughly enjoyed Fight Club, I decided to go through the rest of Palahniuck's books. Lullaby is very dark, very gritty and bitterly addictive. It is definitely not a book for the faint hearted, or the easily fazed. It has strong sexual references, including some that turn the stomach. Palahniuck's writing is astounding, he doesn't simply push the boundaries, he sets them alight. This was definitely a book that I found hard to put down, Palahniuck's characters are vivid and intricate, and frighteningly credible. He goes where most writers do not dare, to the dirty, corrupted world of criminals, but also of the police and people in positions of power and trust.

An incredible ... Read More:

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- Pathetic
Chuck Palahniuk is the worst writer in the world, maybe even the universe. After reading Fight Club (completely over-rated due to the success of the movie), I thought I'd try out his other books before I pass judgement. That was a decision I regret till this day. How this guy got his books published, I don't know. His writing style is comparable to that of a 10 year old, his stories are absolutely pathetic and his characters are the same as in his other books. I strongly urge the reading public not to purchase this guy's books, as that would only prompt him to continue his pathetic career.

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- Great idea but would be better as a short story
The premise of 'Lullaby' is great. An journalist has discovered that children are dying having been read an Afican culling poem. Said journalist then goes on a road trip with a few others to destroy all the existing copies of the poem, and that's that.

There are some interesting musings about individual power (and power's ability to corrupt), about loss and capitalism. Despite the basic idea, which could be considered quite depressing, it also manages to be really funny in places.

My main problem is that the core idea doesn't really go anywhere. I was left with the feeling that it would have been an amazing short story rather than a 'fleshed-out' novel.

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- A Lullaby will make things better...
'The-guy-who-wrote-Fight-Club's fifth novel starts off intriguingly, based on the premise that words - specifically, a children's poem - have the power to kill. The story quickly mutates into a road trip/crusade, in which the central character and narrator, Carl Streator, attempts to destroy every copy of the poem, at the same time seeking redemption for his own wrongdoings. Aiding him in this quest is his new 'family': Helen - a ruthless real-estate agent who accidentally killed her own son Patrick with the same deadly poem some years prior - Helen's secretary, Mona, and Mona's eco-warrior boyfriend, Oyster. Streator is another one of Palahniuk's great antiheroes, in as far as he succumbs to the temptation of using the 'lullaby' for his own purposes; ... Read More:

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