Talk:Invisible Monsters
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What is the name of the illusion on the cover? 68.230.27.168 04:00, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
- It's an optical illusion. That isn't needed for the article, though; that's only one of several covers the book has had. -- LGagnon 11:49, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
Can the narrator's nonsense-speech be decoded, or is it gibberish? Examples: "Sejgfn di ofo utnbg," "Nei wucj iswisn sdnsud," "Evsf uyyb iuh," "Fgjrn iufnv si vuv," and "Xidi cniwuw sis sacnc!" 63.215.28.84 21:36, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Summary revision
I'm thinking about revising the summary for this. Granted it has a spoiler disclaimer, the revision starts out with a pretty big spoiler that is the name of the main character. (Which isn't revealed until the end of the book.) It should be simple enough to have a quick non spoiler summary, and then a spoiler summary. TotalTommyTerror 19:54, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Ok, I changed the plot summary. Here's why: The previous summary was way too spoiler heavy in my opinion. To me it would be akin to starting a summary to Fight Club by saying "The main character, Tyler Durden, has extreme emotional problems that cause him to manifest an illusion of himself that engages in raucous antics."
The summary for this book should not be the way it was. Much of the summary are secrets that are not revealed until very far into the book. TotalTommyTerror 20:10, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Quit Spoiling it
Someone with an agenda keeps reverting the character and non spoilered plot summary to a spoilered one. If you want to spoil it, then write a synopsis/summary with spoilers that follow in logical flow with the events in the book. Stop starting it with spoilers. If this persists I'll seek a motion to lock the page. TotalTommyTerror 16:49, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
The character section is still laden with spoilers, including that Brady Alexander isn't a woman and that Manus and the male character from the beginning are the same person. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.114.212.70 (talk) 02:19, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Feist's "Brandy Alexander"
The lyrics of Feist's song "Brandy Alexander"—"Goes down easy / It goes down easy"—strongly suggest that it's about the drink, not the character in Invisible Monsters. Unless you have a quote from Feist saying "I based this song on the character from Chuck Palahniuk's novel," please stop adding it to the article. --ShelfSkewed Talk 18:51, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Panic! At The Disco's "Time to Dance"
After just finishing Invisible Monsters, a friend of mine told me that the P!ATD song "Time To Dance" was about the book. I listened to it about 6 times. It sure it. It talks about Aubergine Dreams, hiding Estrogen, boys will be boys, and it quotes the book "Give me malice, give me your attention, give me a break", etc. Ginnyyyweasleyyy (talk) 08:48, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Removal of "Influences in media" section
I've removed this entire section because A) WP discourages trivia sections, and that's what this was; and B) all of it was unreferenced—and unreferenced material may be removed at any time, per WP:V. If this material is returned to the article it should be properly sourced, and, rather than just given as a list of trivia, it should be rendered in prose and integrated with the article as a whole.--ShelfSkewed Talk 12:54, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
