Name: Lullaby
Rating: 3.46551724137931 (116 reviews)
ISBN: 0786250984

Chuck Palahniuk

Lullaby

A Novel

Ryan Mateyk

I think I've outgrown Chuck Palahniuk. When I first read Invisible Monsters, I was enchanted and disturbed and I loved it. Followed it up with Fight Club, another satisfying read. After a few years, I read Survivor and it was... fine. And now this was just kind of the equivalent of this:



Bye Chuck!

"Carl Streator is a reporter investigating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome for a soft-news feature. After responding to several calls with paramedics, he notices that all the dead children were read the same poem from the same library book the night before they died. It's a 'culling song' - an ancient African spell for euthanizing sick or old people. Researching it, he meets a woman who killed her own child with it accidentally. He himself accidentally killed his own wife and child with the same poem twenty years earlier. Together, the man and the woman must find and destroy all copies of this book, and try not to kill every rude sonofabitch that gets in their way. Lullaby is a comedy/drama/tragedy. In that order. It may also be Chuck Palahniuk's best book yet."

Katie

I wanted to rate it four stars but I was zoning out at times

Amanda Autumn Berrey

Vom Autor des Welterfolgs 'Fight Club'. Mit leiser Stimme gesungen oder nur in Gedanken rezitiert, vermag ein afrikanisches Wiegenlied jeden zu töten, der es hört. Würde dieses Schlaflied durch Radio oder Fernsehen verbreitet, es brächte Millionen von Menschen die ewige Ruhe. Gemeinsam mit drei äusserst unterschiedlichen Mitstreitern, die alle auch ihre ganz eigenen Interessen verfolgen, begibt sich der Reporter Carl Streator auf eine phantastische Reise durch Amerika, um dieser unheimlichen Bedrohung Einhalt zu gebieten ... Der amerikanische Autor Chuck Palahniuk, geboren 1962, träumte lange davon, Schriftsteller zu werden. Doch erst ein persönlicher Einschnitt in seinem Leben gab ihm schliesslich den Impuls, seinen Traum zu verwirklichen. Seit seinem Überraschungserfolg "Fight Club" geniesst Palahniuk nicht nur bei zahllosen Lesern Kultstatus, er hat sich mit seinen folgenden Romanen auch in die Riege amerikanischer Bestsellerautoren geschrieben. Chuck Palahniuk lebt in Portland, Oregon.

Roman

Lisa-Maria Hofmann

A weird road trip that doesn‘t really go anywhere. I liked the writing style and enjoyed myself reading but I felt the promise of the story never really unfolded.

Michael Springer

Miguel 

No creo que sea la mejor obra de Palahniuk. Me gustó mucho la historia pero no logró tomar toda mi atención como lo hizo Monstruos Invisibles. Si no has leìdo un libro de Chuck, este es un buen libro pero no es el mejor para ser el primero que leas.

Rohan Uddin

What a crazy book. Social commentary along with psychedelic narrative, this is a funny, tragic ride.

Megan Snodgrass

4.5 

This was my first venture into Palahniuk's writing, and boy was it a ride. It was the first book I've read in awhile where I truly was shocked about the themes and events that occurred in the book. It was such a fun mix of macabre, dark humor, and social commentary. I would not recommend for those that have a weak stomach. For those that are interested in how a culling song, anti-consumerism, crib death, and magic intertwine for a modern day Roman Gothic novel, I recommend you should check it out.

Siya S

I like it ... I really do. It's so absurd and crazy and full of surprises. Narrated in a mumbling, sleepwalking, self-nihilating tone of a man who was so fed up with his life, I saw this a pitchblack comedy more than a horror tale of curses, black magic and witchcraft. Weird as fuck, gimmicky (to the poin of being a hipster magnet) and definitely not everyone's cup of tea.

Childish prose, multiple formatting/spelling errors (maybe just the fault of the ebook, but still), stilted strange pov writing that didn't serve any specific purpose or breed any real atmosphere in the book... Just boring and dare I say a little cringe worthy at multiple points. Unable to handle the subject matter that it brings up in an intelligent or meaningful way. Short, unbelievable sentences. Some scenes could have been interesting but always feel short. Strange transmisogyn is present barely beneath the surface of the latter half but never addressed head on or thoroughly examined. Characters felt flat and barely skin deep. Never cracked open and wholly examined or interrogated. Boring. I kept reading giving it a chance to become something and it kept disappointing me. 

Overall; a juvenile attempt at telling a Deep, Twisted story where people are Fucked Up, and wouldn't it be So Sick if you could Kill by Thinking..but you were also Tortured by your Past. Woah.

Jiji

Childish prose, multiple formatting/spelling errors (maybe just the fault of the ebook, but still), stilted strange pov writing that didn't serve any specific purpose or breed any real atmosphere in the book... Just boring and dare I say a little cringe worthy at multiple points. Unable to handle the subject matter that it brings up in an intelligent or meaningful way. Short, unbelievable sentences. Some scenes could have been interesting but always feel short. Strange transmisogyn is present barely beneath the surface of the latter half but never addressed head on or thoroughly examined. Characters felt flat and barely skin deep. Never cracked open and wholly examined or interrogated. Boring. I kept reading giving it a chance to become something and it kept disappointing me. 

Overall; a juvenile attempt at telling a Deep, Twisted story where people are Fucked Up, and wouldn't it be So Sick if you could Kill by Thinking..but you were also Tortured by your Past. Woah.

Alfredo santos

As any work of Palahniuk, there are so many layers to this book.

Its an entertaining story but it's also a social critique to our so called free will, hopes and dreams, are they really our own?

Lullaby

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