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Cargando... Adjustment Day: A Novel (2018 original; edición 2019)por Chuck Palahniuk (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Wow, Chuck, wow. If you’ve seen my reviews, you know I’m a fan, but wow. Pretty relevant to the times (ish), no idea where he comes up with his ideas, and really couldn’t figure out where this one would end up. All in all, very enjoyable, if you like Chucks stuff. Oh, and uh, in the book they talk about taking left ears, but the ones on the cover are right ears…c’mon! Boy, was this awful! It was only a little over 300 pages and felt like a thousand never-ending pages. It was not that it was offensive (isn't that his point?) but it was just plodding and mind-numbing. I started to think that maybe satire is just dead when we live a world where life has become satire and it's hard to know the difference anymore but I think it's just a really badly written book. There was also a lot of really, incredibly gross imagery, descriptions and actions just for the sake of grossness. I would have preferred he try to be clever instead. Silly me. I really liked prior books by him but this was a big disappointment. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Una sátira macabra y deforme de Estados Unidos. «Heredera de El club de la lucha, El Día del Ajuste es una de las novelas más ingeniosamente jodidas, atractivas y originales publicadas este año. Piensa en Will Self, George Orwell, Stephen King y William Burroughs mezclados en un coctel molotov.» Attitude La palabra se transmite únicamente entre los elegidos de plena confianza. El misterioso libro azul de Talbott Reynolds pasa de mano en mano en la clandestinidad y una sociedad sedienta de la sangre de la élite se prepara para seguir sus instrucciones: el Día del Ajuste está aquí. Cuando llegue, los Más Odiados de América serán ejecutados y un nuevo orden se instaurará. Y los Estados Unidos se reunificarán en tres nuevos estados separados según la raza y las preferencias sexuales. Chuck Palahniuk muestra sin tapujos la grotesca realidad que tendría lugar si las fantasías separatistas y las teorías conspirativas que alberga la psique norteamericana se llegasen a imponer. Esta deforme y macabra sátira de la sociedad estadounidense aviva, con una exageración todavía más brutal y en un presente de agitación social sin precedentes, los puñetazos que El club de la lucha asestó al sistema. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION New York Times Bestseller "An irreverent satirical fantasy about a sudden and violent upheaval....Think Tom Robbins channeling Jonathan Swift." ―David Takami, Seattle Times Adjustment Day is an ingenious darkly comic work in which Chuck Palahniuk does what he does best: skewer the absurdities in our society. Geriatric politicians bring the nation to the brink of a third world war to control the burgeoning population of young males, while working-class men dream of burying the elites. Adjustment Day's arrival makes real the logical conclusion of every separatist fantasy, alternative fact, and conspiracy theory lurking in the American psyche. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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It's a serious thought experiment on a national divorce. And what's satire is up to you. The black ethnostate is curing cancer and creating a utopia, while the white ethnostate is regressing to feudalism. If you want to take that at face value? Then it's completely shielded itself from accusations of racism. But it it's satire it's story and dialogue are hilariously over the top. And it goes the other way too - with LGBT west coast in shambles as it tries to tackle its obvious fertility issues in draconian ways.
Granted, it's not for everyone, but if you get it, you get it. I absolutely loved this. ( )