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Choke -- Chuck Palahniuk
Choke is a novel about a boy, his mommy and when he is grown up, self discovery, sexaholics, deviant behaviour, fake choking in public, thinking he is jesus's second coming.
The author is the same guy who wrote Fight Club, the cult book, movie, which has a devoted fan following, which is only increasing every day. He says in the beginning of the book, Don't read this, rather go out, watch a movie or take some course. Author is not right.
This book is so much better than anything i ever did. It made me realize how crazy some people can be and how our generation is just rotting away with sin, sex and making fun of everything that is created and not actually creating anything.
Victor Mancini is the lead character whose mother Ida Mancini is in a psych hospital, she needs constant care and that doesn't come cheap. At three thousand dollars a month, the Hospital takes care of her and he is just a boy with her mommy as the bus driver when the story begins. She has escaped from Italy, pregnant and alone, In US she learns to make money, lot of money by giving people what they want. She hypnotizes them to a sexual act with any historical figure, including Marilyn Monroe, Indira Gandhi and Princess Diana. She goes crazy over time and as he grows up she is admitted to St.Anthony constant care. He is a sexaholic, and he says sex can never be sex unless your partner is a new one, every time. Victor has to earn money , somehow and the way he does it is innovative and adventurous, something i never expected. He goes to a new restaurant everyday and begins choking half way through. Pretending of course he searches for his saviour, legs snapping, veins bulging. Someone new saves him every time, they become his hero for the day. They are reborn that day he says and this day next year onwards he will receive a birthday card and a cheque. Cool.
Denny is his Friend who works with him in the Colonial Dunsboro, a medieval village for exhibition but where you can never break character. Denny is a pervert who is trying to change by concentrating on something else like collecting one rock everyday that he is sober.
Paige Marshall is actually an inmate behaving like a doctor, who lies to Victor about him being Christ's son since his mother was part of an experiment with the preserved foreskin of the prophet. This it turns out is a lie and Paige lied to get pregnant as she is from the future. This it also turns out is a lie.
In the end his mother dies of course choking on his chocolate pudding. He starts choking in front of the judge but only this time it is real, Victor is saved but everyone who has ever saved him finds out that their achievement was fake. In the end he is in the dark where Denny is building a castle with his rocks and says we could build anything we want.
The best part for me though was the raping of Gwen, man was that crazy. I had a hard on as i read that part and never have i thought that the victim can actually enjoy being raped. They can enjoy it so much that they can fake it by buying out a rapist and micro managing everything, you know like letting him know where to hide and where he has to keep the knife when playing slide in, slide out.