Talk:Choke (novel)

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choke is and incredible book. chuck is a superb writer. words cannot even describe is greatness! i love his writing style!

sex and caring for others are at two ends of the same spectrum?? what??? --Johnjosephbachir 05:01, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

choke is my second favorite palahniuk book (along with lullaby). this page does it no justice. whoever wrote it is a moron. if i have time i'll put a proper introduction and synopsis here in place of this barely readable tripe. runciblerabbit

I'm thinking of getting rid of the line that says this novel can be seen as a sequel to Fight Club. It is obviously not and the only similarity between the two is in the style. If there aren't any objections then I'll take it out now. --681dragon 00:39, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

I was not under the impression that Victor wasn't a sexaholic. It says on the page that, like fight club, the main character goes to support groups for things he doesnt suffer from. But i was pretty sure he was a sexaholic.

Most definatly, he was a sexaholic. I do not bealive there was anything in the book that hinted he really wasn't one.72.145.168.155 00:33, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Contents 1 Denny 2 Film shooting info 3 panic at the disco thing 4 Plot summary sentence

[edit] Denny

It appears Denny's transformation late in the book is based on Ferdinand Cheval.--Han 14:43, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

"Cheval bricked the stones together with lime, wire and cement."

I think your right, if I remember correctly Denny used lime to brick his...(I dont know how to describe it).72.145.168.155 00:38, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Not quite sure where to add this little nugget of information --Han 15:01, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

People keep refering back to Fight Club in Chuck's books and I understand that it was great. However, if you really think about it, it's mostly popular because of the movie.

[edit] Film shooting info

My problem was not with the accuracy of the information, but with its appropriateness for an encyclopedic article about the book. It's a bunch of ephemeral, nonessential, poorly written information that also, frankly, makes the page look lousy. If someone wants to start an article on the film, perhaps all that stuff could go there, but it really isn't, I think, very useful here.--ShelfSkewed Talk 18:58, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

I see that there already is a page for the film--I'm moving the stuff there.--ShelfSkewed Talk 19:00, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] panic at the disco thing

I read the book and I don't remember the line "Build God, Then We'll Talk." Can someone delete that it's named after a line from the book. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.203.49.107 (talk) 02:50, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Plot summary sentence

Could someone please clarify what this sentence:

As Choke is episodic in character, individual chapters deal with different aspects of the narrators life and the lives of those around him.

could not be said about any novel ever written. I'm not being sarcastic, I honestly don't understand what the sentence is trying to say. Ashmoo 22:35, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Have you read the book? A lot of the time the chapters are not back to back chronologically or contextually. Usually it's sort of metaphorical. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.152.60.80 (talk) 13:07, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

I have read the book (it was some time ago) and I find that statement, that the narrative is presented out of chronological sequence, to be accurate. I have re-cast the sentence. Han 14:46, 5 May 2008 (UTC)