The Invention of Sound, Chuck Palahniuk
The Invention of Sound, Chuck Palahniuk
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The Invention of Sound

Author: Chuck Palahniuk

Narrator: Jefferson Mays

Unabridged: 6 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/08/2020

Synopsis

A father searching for his missing daughter is suddenly given hope when a major clue is discovered, but learning the truth could shatter the seemingly perfect image Hollywood is desperate to uphold. A disturbingly entertaining novel from the bestselling author of Fight Club."A wry, devilish delight." —Publishers Weekly Gates Foster lost his daughter, Lucy, seventeen years ago. He's never stopped searching. Suddenly, a shocking new development provides Foster with his first major lead in over a decade, and he may finally be on the verge of discovering the awful truth. Meanwhile, Mitzi Ives has carved out a space among the Foley artists creating the immersive sounds giving Hollywood films their authenticity. Using the same secret techniques as her father before her, she's become an industry-leading expert in the sound of violence and horror, creating screams so bone-chilling, they may as well be real. Soon Foster and Ives find themselves on a collision course that threatens to expose the violence hidden beneath Hollywood's glamorous façade. A grim and disturbing reflection on the commodification of suffering and the dangerous power of art, The Invention of Sound is Chuck Palahniuk at the peak of his literary powers—his most suspenseful, most daring, and most genre-defying work yet.

About Chuck Palahniuk

Chuck Palahniuk worked as a diesel mechanic for a trucking company before he became an author. He has published a number of novels, including Invisible Monsters, Survivor, Choke, and Fight Club, which was made into a movie directed by David Fincher. He also wrote the nonfiction works Fugitives and Refugees and Stranger Than Fiction. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chelsea on September 19, 2022

Have you ever read a book that has rendered you utterly speechless upon finishing it? That's exactly what The Invention of Sound did to me after flipping the final page. It's no secret that Chuck Palahniuk is known for penning all things weird, but I think this new work of fiction really takes the c......more

Goodreads review by Nilufer on October 16, 2020

Extremely disturbing, stomach churning, dark, challenging, truly gory, but extra smart, captivating, quirky, mad as hell! Nope: I’m not talking about my own characteristics, I’m defining this book! But at the winter times I exactly turned into someone matches the description of this story! Eventuall......more

Goodreads review by Farrah on September 17, 2020

Ahhhh Palahniuk is in 𝙩𝙤𝙥 𝙛𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢 with this book! What a joy this was to read. A dark, demented, nauseous joy. 𝘎𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘍𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳'𝘴 𝘥𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 17 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘨𝘰. 𝘏𝘦'𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘴 - 𝘩𝘦'𝘭𝘭 𝘨𝘰 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘩𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘵. 𝘔𝘪𝘵𝘻𝘪 𝘐𝘷𝘦𝘴......more

Goodreads review by Reading_ on November 17, 2023

This book is a freaking daymare!!!!🤦 Will give me nightmares for sure ☺️ 🤦 My first Chuck Palahniuk book and it did its harm. The first read by the author and I really got spooked! Not because it's some horror ghost read but because it's gruesome and graphic. This is the story of a man who could not acc......more

Goodreads review by Emily on April 10, 2021

3.5 rounded up I loved that this felt like the old stuff! Quirky and dark and original. However I just don’t think it completely came together and actually at times I was rather confused. I’d say it was worth reading if you liked Chuck’s earlier stuff.......more

Quotes

PRAISE FOR THE INVENTION OF SOUND:
"This dark, humorous tale sparkles with the inventive details -- including a scream powerful enough to crumble buildings -- and provocative insights on the 'commodification of pain' and what it means to turn 'people's basic humanity into something that could be bought and sold.' The result is a wry, devilish delight."—Publishers Weekly

"Palahniuk expertly balances skewering of cultural institutions with profound insights into the nature of authenticity and the myriad ways we become damaged. The sheer abundance of creative ideas buoyed aloft by the vibrancy of the prose signal a master storyteller energized by delight in his own ingenuity...After his foray into literary advice, Consider This (2020), Palahniuk's heralded return to fiction will galvanize his many avid readers."—Booklist

PRAISE FOR CHUCK PALAHNIUK:

"Chuck Palahniuk's stories don't unfold. They hurtle headlong, changing lanes in threes and banging off the guard rails of modern fiction... With his love of contemporary fairytales that are gritty and dirty rather than pretty, Palahniuk is the likeliest inheritor of Vonnegut's place in American writing."—San Francisco Chronicle

"One of the most feverish imaginations in American letters."—The Washington Post

"Like Edgar Allan Poe, Palahniuk is a bracingly toxic purveyor of dread and mounting horror. He makes nihilism fun."—Vanity Fair

"Dark riffing on modernity is the reason people read Palahniuk. His books are not so much novels as jagged fables, cautionary tales about the creeping peril represented by almost everything."—Time

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