Choke

“Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.”

“We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.”

“It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos.”

Oh Chuck, how the f**k do you do this? Reviewing a Chuck Palahniuk book is like trying to explain how a rainbow looks like to a blind guy! To begin with it's a story about how a guy fakes choking to death in posh restaurants, just so that he could earn some quick cash and support his mother, who's dying in a hospital. The characters are quite interesting, especially Dr. Paige Marshall and Denny, who collects rocks from the street and treats them as new born babies. The plot is weirdly vague, just like his every other novel. But Chuck still manages to blow off your mind with his masterpiece of a plot twist. Literally, the climax of the novel was just like Chuck putting a shotgun to my head and painting the walls with my brain! The book is so thought-provoking and profoundly charged that it's almost impossible to put it down! It's a plethora of fascinating aphorisms and epigrams.
It's very difficult to explain or review the book. The best you can do it, read and experience it yourself.
As Chuck says in the book, “It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.”

It's the best book I've read after Fight Club, in this genre!