Beautiful You

Name: Beautiful You
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.33 (3 reviews)
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
ISBN: 9781490627946

Author: Chuck Palahniuk

Narrator: Carol Monda

Unabridged: 7 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/21/2014

Categories: Fiction, Satire, Fantasy, Contemporary, Suspense & Thriller

Synopsis

BEAUTIFUL YOU is Palahniuk's much-anticipated satire of the emerging erotic thriller genre, a mash-up of mommy porn and chick lit ala Sex and the City, and fantasy lit ala Clan of the Cave Bear. Imagine if Ira Levin had a baby with Jean Auel.

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 Peter

I dug it. On the one hand, not a perfect book. But I wanted to know what happened, and I wanted to keep reading, and there was a really interesting (to me) narrative voice that co-mingled a third-person omniscience with a first-person voice. Which is why I sometimes wonder if Chuck Palahniuk is unfai......more

Goodreads review by Kathy

Chuck Palahniuk’s BEAUTIFUL YOU is a darkly satiric examination of our human obsession with pleasure. The novel begins with 25-year-old Penny Harrigan being raped on the witness stand in open court, with judge, jury, and a room full of eager witnesses doing nothing to save her. The story, then, flas......more

Goodreads review by °°°·.°·..·°¯°·._.· ʜᴇʟᴇɴ Ροζουλί Εωσφόρος ·._.·°¯°·.·° .·°°°

«Είθε οι ταντρικοί θεοί να σας επισκέπτονται συχνά στον ύπνο σας και να σας χαρίζουν νύχτες απόλαυσης, γεμάτες καρδιοχτύπια και ιδρώτα». Το «Είσαι Όμορφη» είναι μια τεράστια, ροζ βιομηχανική επανάσταση που παράγει με απόλυτη επιτυχία εκατοντάδες σεξουαλικά παιχνίδια, βοηθήματα αξεσουάρ, συσκευές ταν......more