Chuck Palahniuk - Lullaby

I decided, once again, to try to read David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest and again landed somewhere around the 100 page mark and bailed. I don't know if I don't have the intes

tinal fortitude to get through such a challenging book or I just have so much other stuff I know I want to read tempting me away from
such a tome. Anyways, once I hit the wall I picked up paper back version of this Palahniuk book and had a blast.

The book is about witchcraft and spells and other absurdities but all grounded in the idea that we are all mentally intoxicated, all of the time, by the constant inundation of media into our lives. I have to admit this is my first Palahniuk book. I do hear though that this is a theme he revisits often. The book was breezy with a narrator just interesting enough to keep me enthused. Palahniuk populates the story with some other personas that might be considered cliche but his play on our fear of quiet, our fear of thought, was definitely enough to keep me turning the pages.

Well done Chuck. Until we meet again.