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	Choke (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Choke (2001) is a novel by U.S. author Chuck Palahniuk.
		Choke follows Victor and his friend Denny through a few months of their lives with frequent flashbacks to the days when Victor was a child.
		As Choke is episodic in character, individual chapters deal with different aspects of the narrators life and the lives of those around him.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Choke_(novel) (402 words)

	Choke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Choke (horse), a condition in horses in which the esophagus is blocked
		Choked flow, a restriction of a gas or fluid flow under pressure
		A choke in a shotgun is a restriction or narrowing of the barrel, intended to tighten the shot pattern
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Choke (319 words)

	Choke - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In electrical engineering and electronics, a choke or choking coil is low-resistance inductor used to block alternating current while passing direct current.
		As a verb, to choke generally means to restrict airflow, or to suffer restricted airflow, whether caused by such a device or by accidental obstruction.
		In medical use, for instance, choking is the blocking of a person's trachea by a foreign object, vomitus, blood or other fluids.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Choke (460 words)

	Choke
		To choke is to restrict airflow, or to suffer restricted airflow, whether caused by such a device or by accidental obstruction.
		In medical use, choking is the blocking of a person's trachea by a foreign object, vomitus, blood or other fluids.
		The first aid for choking is to call for help using the emergency telephone number, then to clear the obstruction from the airway using abdominal thrusts aka the Heimlich maneuver and/or artificial respiration.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ch/Choking.html (113 words)

	Choke - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As a verb, to choke generally means to restrict airflow, or to suffer restricted airflow, whether caused by such a device or by accidental obstruction; see choking and/or choked flow.
		In vertebrate physiology, medicine, and related contexts, a choke or choking is an occlusion of the airway that prevents respiration.
		A choke valve was used in the carburetor of internal combustion engines to enrich the fuel-air mixture during startup.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Choke (485 words)

	In engineering engineering a choke is a device for restricting airflow...
		A "choke" in a firearm firearm is a restriction or narrowing of the barrel barrel.
		In electrical engineering electrical engineering and electronics electronics, a "choke" or "choking coil" is low-resistance resistance inductor inductor used to block alternating current alternating current while passing direct current direct current.
		In medical medical use, for instance, choking choking is the blocking of a person's trachea trachea by a foreign object, vomitus vomitus, blood blood or other fluids.
	www.biodatabase.de /Choke (268 words)

	Choke Chuck Palaniuk Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		You know you've got an untrustworthy narrator when the first words in a novel are "If you're going to read this, don't bother." In 'Choke', untrustworthy is a just a starting point in a rapid journey towards unlikable.
		Victor pretends to choke on food in restaurants, so he can be saved by people who later feel sorry enough for him to send him checks.
		In some ways, it might seem like 'Choke' is yet another one of Palahniuk's imaginary 'fourth steps' of the 12-step programs, the one where he confesses all the worst things he's done.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/palahniuk-choke.htm (676 words)

	Review: Chuck Palahniuk's Choke by Chris Switzer
		I’ve always considered a good novel to be one that stays in your memory long afterward, sparking thought, inner discussion, and Freudian analysis.
		Choke is just the simple story of a pathetic man, Victor Mancini, who’s addicted to sex: hand jobs, simulated rape, objects inserted into the anus, and of course, good old-fashioned intercourse.
		Choke shows us the gritty truth; Largely unerotic, the paint-by-numbers act of sex seems to drive Victor away from women instead of bringing him closer to them, and vice versa.
	turtleneck.net /summer01/tweedjacket/choke.htm (364 words)

	Choke Book at Shop Ireland
		The novel evolves through an alternating combination of flashback and narration of what is occuring in the current time.
		The novel is told by the narrator, just like in"Fight Club." He still uses the same sense of thinking, the same amount of sarcasam, and the same dark humor found in "Fight Club." And yet, it's still just as refreshing.
		The great thing about this novel is even after reading the back of the cover, you still don't know where this story is going to go, until it sucks you right in, whether you're ready or not.
	www.shopireland.ie /books/reviews/0385720920 (1318 words)

	Choke
		"Choke" is the life of main character Victor Mancini, a recovering sex addict who devices a scheme to pay for his mothers' exorbitant nursing home stay.
		However as the novel progresses and with the help of the minor characters such as Denny, Paige, and his mother, Victor changes.
		This novel may be too much for some readers, however because it is saturated with controversy, many will enjoy Palahniuk's "Choke" from start to finish.
	www.amarillometro.com /shopping/choke_0385720920.html (2007 words)

	NOW : Culture : Choke Does : Jun 14 - 20, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In Choke, his fourth novel, protagonist Victor Mancini is a 12-stepping sexual addict watching his mother slowly die in a retirement home that costs him $3,000 a month he doesn't have.
		He develops a dependency scam: pretending to choke in restaurants, he lets people Heimlich him and then establishes relationships with them so he can ask them for help with his rent.
		The novel purports to be Mancini's fourth step -- the moral inventory -- but sexual addiction is apparently treated by different rules than alcoholism, since none of the characters ever seems to stop having sex as part of their recovery.
	www.nowtoronto.com /issues/2001-06-14/books_reviews2_p.html (297 words)

	Powell's Books - Choke: (a novel ) by Chuck Palahniuk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		From the author of the international sensation Fight Club, a powerful (and hilarious) novel about love and strife between mothers and sons, the addictive power of sex, the terrors of aging, the ugly truth about historical theme parks, and much else...
		Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk's controversial and blazingly original debut novel, introduced a fresh and even renegade talent to American fiction, one who has retooled the classic fl humor of Terry Southern and Kurt Vonnegut for the lunacy of the millennial age.
		In his new novel, Choke, he gives readers a vision of life and love and sex and mortality that is both chillingly brilliant and teeth-rattlingly funny.
	www.powells.com /biblio/7-0385501560-6 (691 words)

	Bublos.com, Books ›› Choke, by Chuck Palahniuk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Victor is an interesting character with what he sees as a dull life-he is a sex addict who works at a "live museum" during the day and he is a choker come nighttime.
		Yes, THAT is how crazy she is. Mancini starts out early in the novel degrading himself and his "sorry" life as a perverted museum employee.
		In a new novel, John Updike explores the conjunction of faith and fanaticism...
	www.bublos.com /isbn/0385720920.html (2392 words)

	Reviews
		With Lullaby (2002), the novel that immediately precedes Diary, Palahniuk began his first investigations into the realm of the supernatural, a trend that he continues with Diary, a darkly funny novel, which straddles the borders between mystery and horror fiction.
		The tone of the novel is driven by the moods that Misty describes herself going through in certain entries in which she makes statements such as "The weather today is increasing concern followed by full-blown dread" [p.
		That is until the third part of the novel, in which Palahniuk unveils those supernatural elements of the plot that have, until this point, remained veiled.
	www.cercles.com /review/r14/palahniuk0204R.htm (1221 words)

	Book Information: Choke :: Internet Book List :: A database of book information and reviews
		Victor Mancini, a dropout from medical school, has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mother's elder care: Pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who "saves you" will feel responsible for the rest of his life.
		Choke's funny, mantra-like prose plows toward the mayhem it portends from the get-go." –The Village Voice
		"Choke is another welcome antidote to antiseptic consumer life, and you can't blame it for grabbing you by the throat." –Maxim
	www.iblist.com /book468.htm (453 words)

	Amazon.ca: Choke: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		"Choke" is an exploration of sexual deviancy, but the main theme of the novel, like "Fight Club," is the modern-day angst caused from the apparent purposelessness of our watered-down, machine assisted lifestyle.
		Essentially, "Choke" is a discussion on what is most important in life and a plea for some guidance as to how to achieve it.
		The novel is obviously well conceived and well polished, but it is not tediously overworked, as most novels that try to sound literary tend to be.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0385720920 (1264 words)

	Choke by Chuck Palahniuk \| PopMatters Book Review
		You'd think that if your first novel set off a big-time literary cult lightning storm, sunk its fist-loosened teeth into a raw wound in that ever-evasive cultural zeitgeist, and got reverentially rethought into one of the most fiercely debated American films in recent memory, you'd be pretty pleased.
		Choke builds on certain key thematic trends that have turned up in each of your previous novels, particularly the idea of toying around with social deconstruction and anarchy as a means to personal revelation.
		Choke is about taking the next step, what Soren Kierkegaard would call the "leap of faith" where you actually stand for something new.
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/c/choke.shtml (2011 words)

	diary: a novel - ateaseweb.com \| radiohead message board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		And when people decide to kill themselves they stand with their faces turned to the sky, mouths open until they drown.
		I thought Choke was good, it was just too lewd for my tastes.
		I also thought that the main character was kinda dumb, while most of his other characters are intelligent or at least witty.
	www.ateaseweb.com /mb/index.php?showtopic=7070 (1307 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Choke at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This novel is a step back from the edge that he took us to with Fight Club, but certainly hearkens to the earlier work.
		There is so much masturbation discussion also, that I think Choke has the very double meaning of choking the lizard as well as Victor choking for a living — but more on that later.
		This is a novel that is tough to put down, and you got the feeling that every time Chuck used the phrase “what would Jesus not do?” or “That’s not exactly it, but it’s the closest thing I could think of.” Or “See Also” that he was obsessing with his own phraseology.
	www.epinions.com /content_44152426116 (1309 words)

	soundbitten
		"Choke" is told through Victor's perspective, and throughout the narrative, he characterizes sex as a kind of anesthetic, something that negates feeling instead of facilitating it.
		In this respect, the choking episodes function as a kind of reverse communion, with secular deity Victor puking up little globs of his transubstantiated divinity.
		With all these facets, fake choking is a great conceit on which to build a novel, but as it turns out, it's just one of many conceits that Palahniuk concocts.
	www.soundbitten.com /choke.html (929 words)

	Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
		Choke is the story of Victor Mancini, who makes his living by pretending to choke in expensive restaurants, depending on the old Chinese tradition that whoever saves your life is responsible for your welfare forever.
		Palahniuk has a very sardonic style that is at first difficult to get into, especially as he begins the novel with Mancini insulting a child through his narration.
		Choke is darkly funny and in some ways a continuation of the satirical portrait of the mythology of the "typical" American male explored in Fight Club.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_palahniuk_choke.html (577 words)

	Amazon.com: Choke: Books: Chuck Palahniuk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		That's not to say, however, that his style doesn't work with this offbeat story of a sex-addicted medical school dropout whose gift is pretending to choke in restaurants and reaping the sympathy checks of the people who "save" him in order to pay for the care of his sick mother.
		At times it seems like he's not reading at all, but reciting the novel from memory as he paces the floor with a cup of coffee in one hand and the fingers of the other pressed to his forehead while a cigarette smolders away in the ashtray.
		It's the story of Victor Mancini, a sex-addict developing a con scheme to pretend to choke in restaurants to pay for the medical care of his dying mother, and the author certainly pushes the envelope hard.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385720920?v=glance (2805 words)

	Amazon.com: Choke: A Novel: Books: Stuart Woods (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Now, living on his boat, he is the new coach at a club on Key West?and into his life comes Clare Carras, a gorgeous woman married to a mysterious, wealthy husband apparently unconcerned about her wandering eye.
		Woods (Heat, LJ 6/15/94) is a master of his writing craft: Choke is a delightfully well-written, highly readable thriller.
		CHOKE is definately worth four stars; a modern, scandalistic, suspense thriller, with some unexpected twist and turns.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060176679?v=glance (1756 words)

	Sun Herald - 03/11/03 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The author of a novel about a man who stages choking incidents said he isn't surprised somebody seems to be copying his idea.
		Choking Man's behavior is eerily reminiscent of Victor Mancini, anti-hero of Palahniuk's 2001 novel "Choke." Mancini pretends to choke in restaurants, hoping his rescuers will feel responsible for him and send the money he needs to keep his demented mother in a nursing home.
		Worse yet, the character of a hypno-eroticist in "Choke," who induces her clients' sex fantasies in a trance, also exists in the real world, Palahniuk said.
	www.sun-herald.com /NewsArchive2/031103/tp3ch7.htm?date=031103&story=tp3ch7.htm (414 words)

	Stuart Woods
		He finally finished that novel, eight years after he had started it, which was published as Chiefs in 1981.
		In reading Chiefs, his first novel, I'm reminded of what makes Woods such a compelling writer: he is a consummate storyteller who combines compelling characters with interesting plots to create books that are as intriguing as they are believable.
		These novels are becoming standard fare for Woods, and he’s becoming increasingly more formulaic as he continues to crank them out.
	www.notesinthemargin.org /woodsstu.html (3644 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Choke: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It would be a pity to disclose the surprises of the plot but suffice to say that what we have here is a little bit of Tom Robbins's Another Roadside Attraction, a little bit of Don DeLillo's The Day Room and, well, a little bit of Fight Club.
		Just as with that book and the other two novels under Palahniuk's belt, we get a smattering of gloriously unflinching sound bites, such as this sceptical slight on prayer chains: "A spiritual pyramid scheme.
		Whether this is the novel that will break Palanhiuk into the mainstream is hard to say.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0099422689 (1889 words)

	ipedia.com: Chuck Palahniuk Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Charles Michael Palahniuk was born in Pasco, Washington on February 21 1961 to Carol and Fred Palahniuk.
		Invisible Monsters, as well as his fourth novel, Survivor, were also published that year, allowing Palahniuk to become a cult figure himself.
		While on his 2003 tour to promote his novel Diary, Palahniuk read a short story titled Guts (which is slated to appear in his upcoming book Haunted) to audiences.
	www.ipedia.com /chuck_palahniuk.html (1409 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: Readings
		In fact, Choke's "protagonist" is a medical-school dropout who chokes himself at restaurants for attention and cruises sex-addict meetings for companionship.
		In theory, Choke is supposed to be a larger riff on addiction (behavioral and intellectual) that winds up tying together sex, Alzheimer's, and the Heimlich.
		But what singularly keeps Choke from completely unraveling and makes it so frustratingly unfocused is Palahniuk's exhaustive research on such a wide variety of disciplines -- he shows a Bob Costas-like authority on everything from Internet urban myths and cancer treatment to seating arrangements on Boeing 747-400s and butter-churning in 1734.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2001-06-15/books_readings.html (592 words)

	The Flat Hat: Reviews
		For readers who may not enjoy references to drugs, nymphomania, clogged colons and mental deterioration, avoiding "Choke" by Chuck Palahniuk would be a good idea.
		In "Choke," Palahniuk tackles some of the major issues that men face in their late 20s, albeit in an exaggerated way.
		The best thing about this novel, though, is Palahniuk's use of language and structure.
	flathat.wm.edu /November022001/reviewsstory2.shtml (743 words)

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