Survivor: a novel

Posted on December 9, 2003
Filed Under Cool Stuff

I’m on vacation from work this week. The first thing I set out to do was read another book by my current favorite author, Chuck Palahniuk. My latest read is called Survivor: a novel. If you have never read a book by Chuck Palahniuk, well, this is as good a place to start as any. It’s very off the wall and unique. It’s a story about what happens to people who grow up living in a religous cult society. Well, not so much about the cult, but about what happens to a guy who makes it out alive. After the entire clan commits suicide, the rest of the people who make it out alive are supposed to “deliver” themselves the minute they find out about the rest of the clan being delivered to heaven. Well, this guy ends up being the last guy to be left alive from the cult and he ends up going on to be famous as a televangelist. Growing up he did everything he was told to do because that’s the way it worked in their society. When he’s out in the real world, he gets jobs that give him that same type structure. And, when he becomes famous, he has a team of agents & assistance that continue to tell him everything he should do. It’s an easy read as it keeps you entertained the entire time. I didn’t want to put it down the entire time I read it.