This is, in fact, one of the strangest books I have ever read -- also one of the funniest and most endearing. I thought about it for weeks and then sent it to several friends.

yeah... i guess i need to be better at reading the details. this audio CD is NOT the entire book. chuck is my current favorite contemporary writer... bar none.

i have all of his books... and have read several of them several times. this was the first time i have made an audio CD purchase of a Palaniuk book. i was soon to be staring at a ten hour drive through boring territory and figured this would be the coolest audio book i had ever experienced. as a wrestling coach, i was particularly wanting to hear the story about amateur wrestling/wrestlers.

and that is my main beef with the audio book. it is SELECTIONS from the book. the story i was anticipating was not in the audio CD at all... period. when it came to the end i was pretty disappointed. i never did go back to check which of the others didn't appear in the audio book.

i also knew this was NOT a work of fiction in the chuckstyle i am so accustomed to. that is cook. i liked it. the stories are good and the format is fresh and interesting.

bottom line... don't buy the audio CD if you want every last story. therefore, as an audio CD... i had to give this a *3*. if this were a review of the complete book, i am sure it would be a *4* at least. (i would rate his others a *5* in case that helps you) i also ordered Haunted at the same time (old school paper style, btw) and can't wait to get into it.