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Adjustment Day

By: Chuck Palahniuk
Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
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Random House presents the audiobook edition of Adjustment Day by Chuck Palahniuk, read by Christopher Ragland.

People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. They’ve been reading a mysterious blue-black book and memorising its directives. They are ready for the reckoning.

In this ingeniously comic work, Chuck Palahniuk’s first novel in four years, he does what he does best: skewer the absurdities in our society. Smug, geriatric politicians hatch a nasty fate for the burgeoning population of young males; working-class men dream of burying the elites; and professors propound theories that offer students only the bleakest future. When it arrives, Adjustment Day inaugurates a new Disunited States of America.

In this mind-blowing novel, Palahniuk fearlessly makes real the logical conclusion of every separatist fantasy, alternative fact, and conspiracy theory lurking in the American psyche.

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Critic Reviews

His best book in years… Mashing up the current febrile mood in America and the destructive impulses of Fight Club, Adjustment Day… skewers every tribe in the identity politics rainbow… Welcome back, Chuck. (Ian O'Doherty)
An heir to Chuck Palahniuk's most famous novel, Fight Club, Adjustment Day is one of the most ingeniously fucked-up and enticingly original novels to be published this year... Think Will Self, George Orwell, Stephen King and William Burroughs mixed up in a Molotov cocktail.
There is more than a mere whiff of Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Purge in Palahniuk’s latest novel, and it could be read as a treatise on contemporary America.
The Fight Club author is on a mission to offend everyone with his new satire about America… his humour expresses a genuine anger, and that gives his book a crackling energy… This is one of those books that is best enjoyed in a bad mood, when you’re thinking that a good cull is really what the human race needs, although even when feeling quite sunny, I found the glee Palahniuk takes in his Book of Revelation-esque scenario rather infectious. (Jake Kerridge)
Timely… with crosshairs fixed on the absurdity of both sides of the political divide. Set in contemporary America, the novel seizes hold of dark separatist ideas and drags them to their ultimate conclusion.
The author of Fight Club comes out swinging with a piece of political satire that aims at the heart of contemporary America. (Donal O'Donoghue)
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I was attracted to this book by the cover. Then I looked it up online and was enchanted by its synopsis. it was the kind of book I couldn't wait to dig into.

I bought a Hard copy and half listened half read, I just kept waiting to get invested in it and it just never happened.

Part of the problem for me was the lack of a main character, the story is told from multiple points of view across multiple timelines that all meet up. But without a main character with a motivation I just never really got invested in the book in a 'can't put it down way'.

This is still a very interesting book, just don't expect it to get you hooked!

Hooks you early but never really reels you in.

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The writing style can make it difficult to follow as the story jumps from one character's POV to another.

Great story, doesn't convert well to audio

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