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Lullaby
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bookshelves: horror-aiiiiiiiie
Apr 23, 2019
bookshelves: horror-aiiiiiiiie
Read 2 times. Last read February 16, 2019 to April 23, 2019.
A culling song... a lullaby that is sung at someone and they die! Investigating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, middle aged and a loner, reporter Carl Streator uncovers something he just can't rationalise... a connection between a number of the baby deaths and a book of poems! Palahniuk goes hell for leather in a short 260 pages leaving very few triggers untriggered with this dark, and extremely darkly comedic comedy of errors as an ever widening but very small group of people become aware of the lullaby, and all seem to have their own agendas.
A book about power, about how men deal with women in power, about the rashness of youth, but most of all about an highly original and entertaining piece of modern horror, about the worse monsters there are... humans! 9 out of 12. firm Four Star read.
2019 and 2004 read
A book about power, about how men deal with women in power, about the rashness of youth, but most of all about an highly original and entertaining piece of modern horror, about the worse monsters there are... humans! 9 out of 12. firm Four Star read.
2019 and 2004 read
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Reading Progress
February 11, 2004
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Started Reading
February 19, 2004
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Finished Reading
February 16, 2019
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Started Reading
February 16, 2019
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February 16, 2019
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horror-aiiiiiiiie
April 23, 2019
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Finished Reading
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Aug 26, 2024 06:18AM
What an intriguing premise! Glad you enjoyed, Baba! :)
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Yun wrote: "What an intriguing premise! Glad you enjoyed, Baba! :)"Thank you Yun, Palahniuk has a remarkable creative mind :)
I need to read more Palahniuk! Great review Baba! 💖💖
Rebecca wrote: "I need to read more Palahniuk! Great review Baba! 💖💖"He is a treat Rebecca :D
Picked this up at the library, then kept choosing the other books before it... only to return it when the due date came up... I guess you should have read and reviewed earlier, Baba! (o＾・＾o)(just kidding), might give this one a genuine chance this time!
Jsiva wrote: "Picked this up at the library, then kept choosing the other books before it... only to return it when the due date came up... I guess you should have read and reviewed earlier, Baba! (o＾・＾o)(just kidding), might give this one a genuine chance this time!"HAHA I used to do that with library books :D
Oh, this is very dark. I'm glad you liked the book, even with its serious topic.
Persephone's Pomegranate wrote: "Oh, this is very dark. I'm glad you liked the book, even with its serious topic."Thanks PP, most of his work is built around dark humour, this one included.
A lullaby that kills? That’s a concept that’s hard to ignore. Chilling. Thanks for the heads-up on this one; it’s going on my list! I honestly thought it was a children's book because of the colourful cover—what a surprise!
Dusk wrote: "A lullaby that kills? That’s a concept that’s hard to ignore. Chilling. Thanks for the heads-up on this one; it’s going on my list! I honestly thought it was a children's book because of the colourful cover—what a surprise!."Thanks Dusk :). A get the deceptiveness of the cover, but I think it's overdone and may put off people picking it up, to know that it is a book with dark themes.
