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Title	:	Lullaby
Author	:	Chuck Palahniuk
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 260 pages
Published	:	June 5th 2003 by Vintage (first published 2002)
Categories	:	Fiction. Horror. Contemporary. Fantasy

Lullaby

Chuck Palahniuk

Paperback | Pages: 260 pages

Rating: 3.73 | 86642 Users | 2909 Reviews

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Carl Streator is a reporter investigating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome for a soft-news feature. After responding to several calls with paramedics, he notices that all the dead children were read the same poem from the same library book the night before they died. It's a 'culling song' - an ancient African spell for euthanising sick or old people. Researching it, he meets a woman who killed her own child with it accidentally. He himself accidentally killed his own wife and child with the same poem twenty years earlier. Together, the man and the woman must find and destroy all copies of this book, and try not to kill every rude sonofabitch that gets in their way. Lullaby is a comedy/drama/tragedy. In that order. It may also be Chuck Palahniuk's best book yet.

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Original Title:	Lullaby
ISBN:	0099437961 (ISBN13: 9780099437963)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Carl Streator

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The only Palahniuk book I've read to date, and I really liked it.

It's been a few years since I read this book but I just happened to see it in my recommendations and wanted to nip this in the bud before GoodReads decided to do me anymore favors. I remember reading this with expectations built on everyone telling me how great and awesome it was. Even though I wasn't into spreading my literary wings at the time, I gave it a go because who doesn't trust their friends? Liars, all of them.Lullaby is like some pretentious, avant-garde art piece that is supposed to

Palahniuk, the Portlander (Oregon, not Maine) who wrote the cult classic Fight Club, has four other novels. One of them is Lullaby, which might or might not be just as off-the-wall as its more popular brother.The book opens with a scene from a real estate office. Helen Hoover Boyle and her assistant Mona listen to a police scanner for deaths (and potential sales) and field calls from frightened new homeowners who have bought what Helen calls "distressed" (haunted) houses. Helen sells the same

Lullaby was my first book to read by Chuck Palahniuk. I was so very impressed with his writing style and his well-crafted story.Assigned to investigate Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, a reporter uncovers an ancient culling spell. When he learns the power of the spell, and the damage it can do, he sets out with some other very interesting characters, to remove this poem/spell from every library and bookstore in the country.In my opinion, the power of Palahniuk's style is in his use of repeated



The war of who can crank their radio louder than their neighbor. Avoiding the big picture by looking at things too closely. Big Brother filling your head with marketing noise 24-7 so you he doesn't have to worry about what your thoughts cause he created them. Control. Unlikely families. Journalism. These are the tried-and-true themes that Palahniuk has worked before in other forms in other books and they all come together nicely with Chuck's dead pan, sarcastic sense of humor. The premise of the

Eudora Welty once said something to the effect that Southern gothic works because people in the South can still recognize grotesque. Chuck Palahniuk may be the vanguard of the post-modern gothic literary group as he can definitely recognize what is grotesque in our culture. Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me is an old saying that Palahniuk dissects and violates with an impish joy usually only seen in 8th grade biology. Centered around the unfortunate discovery of