Adjustment Day

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THE AUTHOR OF FIGHT CLUB TAKES AMERICA BEYOND OUR DARKEST DREAMS IN THIS TIMELY SATIRE.People pass the word only to those they trust most Adjustment Day is coming They ve been reading a mysterious book and memorizing its directives They are ready for the reckoning.ADJUSTMENT DAY, the author s first novel in four years, is an ingeniously comic work in which Chuck Palahniuk does what he does best skewer the absurdities in our society Smug, geriatric politicians bring the nation to the brink of a third world war in an effort to control the burgeoning population of young males working class men dream of burying the elites and professors propound theories that offer students only the bleakest future.Into this dyspeptic time a blue black book is launched carrying such wisdom as Imagine there s no God There is no Heaven or Hell There is only your son and his son and his son and the world you leave for them.The weak want you to forgo your destiny just as they ve shirked theirs.A smile is your best bulletproof vest When Adjustment Day arrives, it fearlessly makes real the logical conclusion of every separatist fantasy, alternative fact, and conspiracy theory lurking in the American psyche. Download Adjustment Day – kino-fada.fr I m pleased to report a few months ahead of the scheduled publication date that this is classic Chuck back with enough here to shock, offend and make us laugh all the same The book follows a plot to completely upend the U.S government and re invent the nation into some Libertarian fantasyland, creating separatist ethno states and violently dispersing wealth and prestige to the most violent and dedicated followers of a radical, new edict From the far reaches of Caucasia, Blacktopia and Gaysia I m pleased to report a few months ahead of the scheduled publication date that this is classic Chuck back with enough here to shock, offend and make us laugh all the same The book follows a plot to completely upend the U.S government and re invent the nation into some Libertarian fantasyland, creating separatist ethno states and violently dispersing wealth and prestige to the most violent and dedicated followers of a radical...Drugs are popular because they give the user a window of madness or illness that can be scheduled Unlike sickness, drugs can synchronize the infection, derangement, and recuperation of a group of people Adjustment Day is a modern reinvention of Project Mayhem that takes over the world People get brainwashed by what they see on television and what they read in this little blue black book They get consumed by what they see and hear It s eerie how similar this story is to the world we are liv Drugs are popular because th...Rounding up from a 3.5On the one hand, it s nice to have Chuck back and doing fiction Not only that, he s doing fiction that doesn t rely on a gimmick like the last decade or so of his output No disrespect to some of those books, but also some of them were garbage.On the other hand, it was hard to read this and not feel like the man is perhaps past his prime Conceptually, he s got his finger right on the jackhammer pulse of the present it was surprisingly gratifying to see him sending up Rounding up from a 3.5On the one hand, it s nice to have Chuck back and doing fiction Not only that, he s doing fiction that doesn t rely on a gimmick like the last decade or so of his output No disrespect to some of those books, but also some of them were garbage.On the ot...After first reading Fight Club in 1998 Chuck P has been one of my favorite authors I ve read all of his first eight books at least twice and most of them three or four times Unfortunately he has been hit or miss since those, and this one is undoubtedly a miss It probably would have made a great short story, I liked the first twenty pages and then the last ten or so were alright but everything in between was a mess No matter how preachy he used to get, no matter how nihilistic or anarchy indu After first reading Fight Club in 1998 Chuck P has been one of my favorite authors I ve read all of his first eight books at least twice and most of them three or four times Unfortunately he has been hit or miss since those, and this one is undoubtedly a miss It probably would have made a great short story, I liked the first twenty pages and then the last ten or so were alright but everything in between was a mess No m...s master of transgressive literary satire is back at it again.Chuck Palahniuk s new novel his first in four years is Adjustment Day, a bleak look at the potential future implied by the logical and not so logical endpoints of our society s current extremities Filled with off puttingly fascinating imagery, Palahniuk combines a belief in the power of the individual m...I ve not read much of Palahniuk s work In fact, I ve only read Fight Club So, when I got the chance to get my hands on an ARC of his new book, I didn t hesitate He s a writer I ve always wanted to exploreBut, man, what a drag this was I really, REALLY enjoy the premise The book reads sort of like a tome for an event that s already happened, and it s eerie to see the similarities between our real world and the world Palahniuk creates It was hard not to make comparisons thr...I ve been a big Chuck P fan for quite some time now I even caught him live at the Triple Rock for the Snuff tour His last few books haven t grabbed me like Rant, Lullaby or Survivor did Adjustment Day is different An interesting take on dystopia, fueled by the concept that there is a cyclical population bulge of males that is alleviated by war This time, instead of another war, the young men and blue collar folks of country rise up and decapitate the intelligentsia and the leaders I ve been a big Chuck P fan for quite some time now I even caught him live at the Triple Rock for the Snuff tour His last few books haven t grabbed me like Rant, Lullaby or Survivor did Adjustment Day is different An interesting take on dystopia, fueled by the concept that there is a cyclical population bulge of males that is alleviated by war This time, instead of another war, the young men and blue collar folks of country ...50 pages into this book, I was thinking, Ah, Christ So Mr Palahniuk is weighing in on American politics too Is fucking EVERYONE an expert now But then I read some , and what he s doing is wayinteresting What I see happening on both sides of the real world political fence is journalists, interviewers, reviewers and so on amping up the political side of every story An artist releases a new album, and we re WAYlikely to hear about the artist s...Palahniuk s best book since Lullaby While the narrative is a bit jumbled, the paranoid libertarian fantasy world in the story is a brilliant extrapolation of today s political environment, and could only have been written by the author of Fight Club Darkly funny and poignant.Invisible Monsters is my favorite Chuck Palahniuk book I feel as though listing your favorite Chuck P book is the proper way to start a review of one of his other works, so people can understand the lens through which you re viewing it Adjustment Day is the perfect rebuttal to any and all of the anarcho libertarians who 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Adjustment Day
  • English
  • 08 May 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 316 pages
  • 0393652599
  • Chuck Palahniuk
  • Adjustment Day