The catch is that no chapters ask you to please go there. There are hidden "scenes", and a running commentary that shows of some of Palahniuk's excellent essayist skills throughout the novel. And only by breaking the rules does the fun and shine of this book come out. Like the characters in his works, Chuck is presenting the readers with a choice. At the end of each chapter, the reader gets a little note that says "Please Jump to Chapter _". The opening of the old novel (which was chapter one previously) is now found all the way at the end of the book, chapter 41. Unlike its predecessor, Invisible Monsters Remix is presented as a choose your own adventure style book. A super model gets her jaw blown off in a highway accident and must restructure her entire life. The plot of this novel is simple, but made complex via distorted point of view and chronological twisting. The entire experience is a fanboy's dream. ![]() That means added material, hardcover, a new introduction, etc. This is the way Chuck Palahniuk wanted it to be, totally and absolutely. Invisible Monsters Remix is the book form of a movie's directer's cut. Unfortunately, for me, his other works were fine and dandy, but none of them reached the high intensity feeling of reading Invisible Monsters for the first time. In fact, since reading Invisible Monsters, I have read every Chuck Palahniuk book to date, hoping for that same thrill of a first experience when reading. It's not that I necessarily think its an objectively "good" novel, but it is a fun, wild ride through sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Invisible Monsters: A Novel is perhaps one of my favorite books of all time. ![]() Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from being a real woman, who will teach her that reinventing yourself means erasing your past and making up something better, and that salvation hides in the last place you'll ever want to look. But when a sudden motor 'accident' leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from being the beautiful centre of attention to being an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists. She's a catwalk model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. Readers will jump between chapters, reread the book to understand the melding of fact and fiction, and decipher the book's playful page design. Laced in are new chapters of memoir and further scenes with the book's characters. Injected with new material and special design elements, "Invisible Monsters Remix" fulfills Chuck Palahniuk's original vision for his 1999 novel, turning a daring satire on beauty and the fashion industry into an even more wildly unique reading experience. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. ![]() ![]() If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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