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By Mark Flanagan, About.com Guide to Contemporary Literature

Diary by Chuck Palahniuk

Wednesday February 25, 2004
White collar men secretly fighting each other in parking lots as part of a planned global revenge scheme, the last surviving member of an American death cult rising to fame and fortune, a medical school dropout scamming the goodwill of restaurant patrons and cruising sex addiction recovery groups for chics - all plotlines arising from the horrifically, satirically, and uniquely literary genius that is Chuck Palahniuk.

His most recent novel, Diary, tells the story of Misty Wilmot the broken wife of a comotose man living on the quaint Nantucketesque Wantansea Island. Told as a "Coma Diary," the book soon reveals the twisted secrets of Peter's pre-coma life and Misty's discovery of the man she was truly married to...

Read Clayton Moore's review of Chuck Palahniuk's Diary.

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