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  <title><![CDATA[Invisible Monsters]]></title>
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  <default-description>Meet the protagonist of this high stakes tale of a high fashion model. She&#8217;s got everything: a great career, a boyfriend, a loyal best friend. But a terrible accident leaves this beauty a hideous monster with only half a face! In fact, no one will even acknowledge she&#8217;s alive until she meets Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, who&#8217;s one operation away from being a woman. She teaches her how to reinvent herself into something better and how to get revenge on her two-timing ex-boyfriend and back-stabbing best friend in  Chuck Palahniuk&#8217;s  Invisible Monsters.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1999</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>Invisible Monsters</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Chuck Palahniuk]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Chuck Palahniuk is the hugely popular author of modern, edgy books like Fight Club (also a movie with Brad Pitt--go ahead, act surprised) and Choke. For this reason I did not expect to like Invisible Monsters, originally published in 1999.<br/><br/>The story is told by a nameless narrator: a young...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7364614">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It made me want to blow my own jaw off...but in a good way.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm too old for this stuff. Shocking doesn't do it for me alone, and he works SO VERY HARD at being vulgar and violent and crass. Don't get me wrong; those are three things that can make for a great story. But it was so unrelenting and contrived, and not as funny as it was supposed to be. There were...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39258756">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Check the shelf I put this on. Now you're ready: This book is insane. There's something on practically every page that makes you say, &quot;What the *%$#!?&quot; You'll keep reading anyway, though, and you'll love it. The book's like a really hard-core Swedish massage. It hurts SOOOOO good. <br/>Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20908953">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="21204132">
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  <read_at>Mon Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu May 08 09:42:56 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[****DO NOT LOOK THIS UP IN WIKIPEDIA IT GIVES AWAY EVERYTHING I REPEAT DO NOT LOOK IT UP! In fact, don't even read the synopsis, I would just dive right in knowing nothing.****<br/><br/>THE START:<br/>So far it is pretty good. It says right from the start that you are going to read this book feel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21204132">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[beautiful people, people who think critically about happiness]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Feb 16 13:42:42 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[   &quot;it's an old woman who owns this house, i figure. ignored and aging and drugged out old women, older and more invisible to the world every minute, they must not wear a lot of make-up. not go out to fun hot spots. not boogie to a party froth. my breath smells hot and sour inside my veils, ins...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6361811">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19828537">
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been reading this book while wondering if this is the book I'd recommend to someone looking to begin their Chuck Palahniuk experience. Through the rare luxury of a slow day at the hospital, I got to read a lot of it at once, getting through the second half of it today (though the first half of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19828537">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The narrator was once a gorgeous model, now left monstrously disfigured after a messy drive-by. Her jaw was shot off, leaving just her tongue &amp; top row of teeth to show as a trophy for her pain. Quickly, nearly everything she once had (fiance, seemingly wonderful modelling career) is gone. Enter: Br...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8132628">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pages: 200+<br/><br/>So, it's safe to say that Chuck Palahniuk owns my soul. Not even a little bit of it. The whole thing. <br/><u>Invisible Monsters</u> blew my mind. I spent a good chunk of the book stuck in confusion and my mind felt like it had just been exposed to the trippiest thing ever. But, as ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7004542">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 26 09:04:38 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow, I have always liked Palahniuk ever since I listened to him narrate Choke on audio a few years ago. I love how his books always deal with some dark side underworld. In this one, he deals with the dark side of beauty, fashion, and the Hollywood lifestyle.<br/><br/>The main character was a beaut...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3566317">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun May 18 10:07:46 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[A bleak and revelatory examination of the world of High Fashion, and a culture obsessed with beauty, Palahniuk's Invisible Monsters started strong, but reading the last 40 pages is like pulling teeth (or, to use a more apt metaphor, like losing a jaw). <br/><br/>The book went wrong somewhere near th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22486209">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have a theory about Chuck Palahniuk books.<br/>If somebody is starting to read Chuck Palahniuk for the first time...the first book they read of his will always be their favorite. I have found that to be the case with many people. <br/>I really enjoyed Invisible Monsters and it was the first Chuc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11688884">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Didn't knock my f---ing socks off like I was expecting.  Maybe because I read it in 2 days and didn't have time to let the crazy soak in.  I would still recommend it.  Still very clever and nihilistic.  It's interesting that Fight Club got tagged as the quintessentially &quot;masculine&quot; nihilis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28131801">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My reaction to Invisible Monsters was much the same as my great Aunt Kack’s to Northern Exposure back in the 80’s. She couldn’t believe what “they” were putting on TV, and I can’t believe what “they” are putting in print. And yet, just as my great Aunt Kack could be found in front of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45923779">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow.<br/>That is all I find myself saying, and have been saying for the past 5 minutes, for I have just finished the book, &quot;Invisible Monsters&quot;. This was one HELL of a book, and if you want shocks, twists, and turns, this is the holy grail of books. There are a total of 5 main plot twists ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41754777">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had really wanted to read something of Chuck Palahniuk's. I had never read any of his novels, and did not want to read Fight Club because I felt it would be too &quot;pop&quot; of an introduction to his work. Consequentially, my fiance bought me this novel. I have to say, I really really like the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39258425">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've said it time after time and I'll say it again.  Palahniuk is to alternative ficion what John Grisham is for the legal thriller.  With that said, I eat him with a straw every time.<br/><br/>This is the one everyone told me to read and it did not disappoint in the sense that it was utterly &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58403032">more...</a>]]></body>
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