Chuck Palahniuk

Adjustment day

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✦ due for a reread what better time than voting szn 
✦ social commentary that had me convinced it was a nonfic
✦ story itself was a lil all over the place but still enjoyable and fueled election rage
✦ chuckie p, u will always be my guiltiest pleasure👂

A Novel

Adjustment Day

Cindy Lieberman

** spoiler alert **
           The premise of this book was very intriguing. Suppose all the wars throughout history were ways to eliminate an excess of young men in order to bring down crime and tighten the labor market. Darkly fascinating. The author’s development of this idea had young men rising up to slaughter those in power to reinvent a new order, dividing the US into 3 lands: Caucasia, Blacktopia and Gaysia where hetero whites, hetero blacks and gays of either race were to reside, respectively. The funniest bit was how interracial hetero couples had to pretend to be gay so they could live near each other in Gaysia, meeting in public bathrooms and underground clubs as gays have had to for much of history. Overall, I found it more disturbingly Handmaid’s Tale than satirical.

People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. They’ve been reading a mysterious blue-black book and memorising its directives. They are ready for the reckoning. In this ingeniously comic work, Chuck Palahniuk’s first novel in four years, he does what he does best: skewer the absurdities in our society. Smug, geriatric politicians hatch a nasty fate for the burgeoning population of young males; working-class men dream of burying the elites; and professors propound theories that offer students only the bleakest future. When it arrives, Adjustment Day inaugurates a new, disunited states. In this mind-blowing novel, Palahniuk fearlessly makes real the logical conclusion of every separatist fantasy, alternative fact, and conspiracy theory lurking in the American psyche.

Dan Denney

Clever

There are some wonderful lines and overall the sarcasm is fun. It got a little too fantastical for taste, but it was entertaining.

Adjustment day

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