{"id":265,"date":"2005-03-07T22:36:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-07T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=265"},"modified":"2007-03-03T09:00:52","modified_gmt":"2007-03-03T14:00:52","slug":"choke-by-chuck-palahniuk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/07\/choke-by-chuck-palahniuk\/","title":{"rendered":"Choke, by Chuck Palahniuk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=ericnehrlisho-20&#038;path=tg\/detail\/-\/0385720920\/\">Amazon link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Picked this up in my big library trip of a couple weeks ago.  Again, recommended by a friend.  Plus, I&#8217;ve been curious about Palahniuk since seeing Fight Club.  I really like his stylized writing in a lot of ways, and it&#8217;s easy to see the resemblance to the style of Fight Club.  I didn&#8217;t really connect to any of the characters, though, so I didn&#8217;t get into it as much as I do some other fiction.  For me, fiction is all about identifying with characters, I think.  The early years of Buffy, when the Scooby gang were all high school outsiders?  Total identification.  Gilmore Girls with Lorelai&#8217;s mother issues?  Yup.  Miles Vorkosigan&#8217;s brand of demented genius.  Ender&#8217;s loneliness and supernatural observation skills.  Pretty much all of the fiction I like has a central character that I identify with strongly.  So when I don&#8217;t connect to the characters, I tend to feel eh about a book, no matter how beautiful or creative the writing.  I&#8217;m just not enough of a literature geek yet, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon link Picked this up in my big library trip of a couple weeks ago. Again, recommended by a friend. Plus, I&#8217;ve been curious about Palahniuk since seeing Fight Club. I really like his stylized writing in a lot of ways, and it&#8217;s easy to see the resemblance to the style of Fight Club. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}