![]() Some of the extra chapters were short 'stories' on a few of the characters and some of them told more about Chuck's background and his experience writing Invisible Monsters years ago. All of his 'gimmicks' make sense and are really interesting but maybe I'm just a lazy reader because I thought it kind of detracted from the reading experience. ![]() And two of the chapters are published with flipped text so that you have to put the book up to a mirror in order to read them. There's 6 chapters actually that aren't really part of the main story. And when you finish the book you realize that there are still chapters left that you didn't read. Then turn jump to chapter 1,40, and so on and so on so that you you are going back and forth after each chapter. At the end of the prologue it says, "Now, Please, Jump to Chapter Forty-One." So you flip to page 284. ![]() This version was Chuck Palahniuk's original vision for this novel. * If you haven't read Invisible Monsters before and you decide to read it, I would recommend the original version. Of course, this is the remix version, so it was different than the original Invisible Monsters but mainly just in the formatting and some added chapters. Invisible Monsters is the most amazing work of art I have ever experienced and reading it for the 3rd time was the best decision I have made this summer. It very seriously makes me sad that there are people that haven't read Invisible Monsters. If you don't have a firm grip on your sanity, a good sense of humor, and an expansive sense of the ridiculousness that is humanity, don't bother with this book. He lays pathos out before his readers and expects us to have the capacity and intelligence to simultaneously exalt and suffer, and that's powerful stuff. Palahniuk shows off masterful writing all the way through, allowing the reader to both like and dislike, agree and disagree with all of the characters. Not only do the characters suffer FOR beauty, they suffer BECAUSE of beauty, and that's a powerful comment on current American society. The story is essentially about beauty: who values it, what it means, how it can be good, and how it can be a horror. The book's like a really hard-core Swedish massage. There's something on practically every page that makes you say, "What the *%$#!?" You'll keep reading anyway, though, and you'll love it.
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