From the very beginning, he tells us that the reader will not like his character by saying that " a stupid true-life story about nobody you'd want to meet.

Oedipus complex, is a term used by Sigmund Freud in his theory of psychosexual stages of development to describe a child's feelings of desire for his or her opposite-sex parent and jealousy and anger toward his or her same-sex parent.Anyway, seeing as Fight Club is my all time favorite movie, it only seems logical that I'd gravitate towards ol' Chucks work. Palahniuk manages to dazzle and amaze with his ability to turn pithy little quotes into personal mantras and catch phrases, which once read, cannot be burned, pushed, hammered, or flooded out of one's short term memory banks. It makes for an odd synergy between his characters' navel-gazing and his books' tendency to navel gaze. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to sadness, anger, fear, worry, despair, and depression, well, an addiction no longer looks so bad. In my efforts to explore my local library's offerings, I came across NYT Bestselling Author Stuart Woods.

As in his first novel, Fight Club, the author invites his readers into uncomfortable places in the male mind and asks us to think of them as fate. He was, however, fairly original when he first came out with his novel and, aside from Lullaby, Choke is one of his better novels. This novel transgressive genre is clear in the existentialistic belief in existence as an individual responsible for their own actions and free will.This results in his sex addiction later in life in which he got sexual gratification from women only on a superficial level. Palahniuk’s audacious ninth novel tells the story of Cassie Wright, an aging porn queen who intends to put an exclamation point on her career by having sex with 600 men in one day on film. There's probably a lot to be said about the merits of populizers of previously obscure movements, which I won't get into. I often get the impression that CP gets a lot of credit for what he's trying to do more than for his ability to actually do it.