Has anyone else read it and if so what's your take on it? Reviews I've read on it are pretty mixed. I've enjoyed Palahniuk's stuff in the past but this book is rough. Maybe if I were a guy I would look at this book differently, but all the women in the book are used for breeding, being subjugated, or only in the book so the author can describe their tits and ass in great detail. It started with a tinge of 'maybe it would be this way' but turned into wtf? It seems like a white guy's misjudged take on what groups of people (that he doesn't seem to have much experience with) would do if forcefully separated. I'm pushing myself to finish it but it's an uncomfortable book to read and the whole "lowly white people descending into primitive roles and strict customs while the beautiful blacks excel in technology they've kept hidden for millennia and the gays are being drained of their bodily autonomy so they can trade children with the straights" is just getting ludicrous. In this ingeniously comic work, Chuck Palahniuk's first novel in. They've been reading a mysterious blue-black book and memorising its directives. People pass the word only to those they trust most- Adjustment Day is coming. I liked the commentary for a while but I'm not even sure what point he's trying to make anymore. The author of Fight Club takes America beyond our darkest dreams in this timely satire. I feel like the book started off strong but has dissolved past stereotypes into cliches. I'm about 50 pages from finishing this book and I have to admit.
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