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Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

23 reviews

milsforreals's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Transphobia, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, and Outing

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, and Dysphoria

grunbean's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

Whenever I read a book by Chuck Palahniuk I can only describe my reaction with that one clip of Brian David Gilbert going ‘What the f***’?!’. For me this picked up over half way, but it’s not a bad read. Definitely interesting with plenty of surprises, which is what you’d expect! It just didn’t have its hook in me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Outing, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

rin_dawg's review against another edition

fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Self harm, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug abuse and Gun violence

Minor: Pedophilia and Sexual assault

jeremie's review against another edition

dark funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

this and “fight club” should be talked about in the same breath

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Eating disorder and Incest

abbruzzese's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?

i think i'm done with chuck palahniuk for a long, long time. wish i had read fight club before anything else of his because i'm so sick of reading his writing. it's so repetitive, it's exhausting. and it's all so miserable. satire or not, edgy or not, there's only so much fucking depressive shit a girl can handle and i am maxed out. if you really want to read one of his books, just go with choke and call it a day. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Drug use, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gun violence, Sexual content, and Blood

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Hate crime, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, and Toxic friendship

updownwrong's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Invisible Monsters is the best Chuck Palahniuk novel I've read yet. It's full of twists and turns, awful yet loveable yet loathsome characters, and outlandish yet almost plausible situations that make your jaw drop. While I don't think the book is as shocking as it would have been 20 years ago, I think it's an essential read for anyone who enjoys modern satire. Bonus points if you're a former emo kid who underlined all of the lines AFYCSO references. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Body shaming, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Ableism, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Death, Gun violence, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Kidnapping, and Outing

eyesofcrows's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Confusing to start with because of the nonlinear timeline but God does it reward you when you start connecting the timeline. Though there’s stuff about homophobia and transphobia, it doesn’t pedal it as the center. There’s so much more and you honestly have to detach from it all to get to what this story is: people connected like vines and weeds around each other. What a fun book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Body shaming, Homophobia, Medical content, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Drug use, Gore, Grief, and Dysphoria

Minor: Deadnaming, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Transphobia, and Kidnapping

vegetablemathematics's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

Minor: Gun violence, Homophobia, Sexual assault, and Transphobia

spookyspice's review

challenging dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I know people think Guts from Haunted is the most messed up thing Palahniuk has written but from what I’ve read of his work this is actually the most disturbing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Chronic illness, Deadnaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

whentheresteeth's review against another edition

dark funny reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

"Find what you're afraid of most, and go live there."
I really deeply enjoyed listening to this book. It is infused with satire, which makes the harsh realities that it deals with almost comical, but that is also what makes them appear so real.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Police brutality, Stalking, Outing, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Transphobia, Vomit, and Dysphoria