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Diary

A Novel

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Diary

By: Chuck Palahniuk
Narrated by: Martha Plimpton
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 Diary takes the form of a "coma diary" kept by one Misty Tracy Wilmot as her husband lies senseless in a hospital after a suicide attempt. Once she was an art student dreaming of creativity and freedom; now, after marrying Peter at school and being brought back to once quaint, now tourist-overrun Waytansea Island, she's been reduced to the condition of a resort hotel maid. Peter, it turns out, has been hiding rooms in houses he's remodeled and scrawling vile messages all over the walls - an old habit of builders but dramatically overdone in Peter's case. Angry homeowners are suing left and right, and Misty's dreams of artistic greatness are in ashes. But then, as if possessed by the spirit of Maura Kinkaid, a fabled Waytansea artist of the nineteenth century, Misty begins painting again, compulsively. But can her newly discovered talent be part of a larger, darker plan? Of course it can...

Diary is a dark, hilarious, and poignant act of storytelling from America's favorite, most inventive nihilist.

©2003 Chuck Palahniuk (P)2003 Random House, Inc. Random House AudioBooks, A Division of Random House, Inc. Genre Fiction Ghosts Horror Literary Fiction Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Scary Fiction Witty

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"...[the author's] last minute switching of gears...can turn a darkly ominous story into a source of heart-tugging inspiration." ( The New York Times)
"A creative, unusual tale...the story is fresh." ( Publishers Weekly)
"Madly inventive....It simply, exuberantly, escapes literary categorization." ( Los Angeles Times)
"Some of his best work is here....Palahniuk's most ambitious novel to date." ( The Washington Post Book World)

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not one of chucks best.

a pretty predictable story line with some filler. seems to jump around a lot with no explanation. I didn't enjoy this as much as i did other books by chuckie. the narrators dreary monotone voice made it hard for me to keep track.

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