Chuck Palahniuk, if you're not familiar with him, is the author of Fight Club. It was a book then made into the movie we are all so familiar with featuring Edward Norton and Brad Pitt.
Invisible Monsters does not deviate from Palahniuk's original style of writing, you know, the kind where the narrator is talking and analyzing and shooting out snazzy little quotes (be they inspirational or depressingly truthful).
" She's a fashion model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden freeway "accident" leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from being the beautiful center of attention to being an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists. Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from becoming a real woman, who will teach her that reinventing yourself means erasing you past and making up something better. And that salvation hides in the last places you'll ever want to look."
That's the Publisher's summary.
Here's some snazzy quotes I love:
- "No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close." (pg 15)
- "Beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power." (pg 14)
- "Any smart woman knows a beautiful man is her best fashion accesory" (pg24)
- "The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity" (pg112)
- "When you go out with a drunk, you'll notice how a drunk fills your glassso he can empty his own. (pg193)
Read the book, it's ...lovely. There's no movie of it yet, but books are always better anyway.
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