Choke
Ratings9
Average rating2.7
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Ratings9
Average rating2.7
Victor Mancini's a medical school dropout with a problem. He needs to pay for elder care for his mother, who's got Alzheimer's. So he comes up with the perfect scam: pretending to choke in upscale restaurants and getting “saved” by fellow diners who, feeling responsible for Victor's life, offer him financial support.Meanwhile, he cruises sexual addiction recovery workshops and spends his days working at Colonial Dunsboro, where his stoner colleagues are sentenced to the stocks for any deviation from the colonial lifestyle. Oh, yeah, and he's desperate to find the truth of his paternity, which his addled mother suggests may be divine.
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I might have enjoyed reading this book's reviews more than the book itself. It's kind of funny how they're all over the map. Controlled chaos, minus the control, seems to be the name of Chuck Palahniuk's game. Anyone who thinks that Choke isn't preachy couldn't have read the same book I did. It's the same story with different words and different people, and it's getting old.
