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Book Review
Title: Choke
Author:

Chuck Palahniuk
Call No.
N/A
Genre:
Problem novel
Reviewer:
Mike B.
Choke is about the main Character Victor Mancini. His mother is in the hospital and it is up to Vitor to pay her bills. Victor has a side job as a reanactment at a theme park becuase that is part of his punnishment for his addiction to sex. This job does not fund him enough to pay for his mothers hospital bills and so being the master at psycology that he is he starts to purposly choke on food at resturaunts and when someone comes to help him he tells them the sad story about his mother to make them give him some money to pay for his mother to stay alive. While visiting his mother one day at the hospital he meets a woman the he actuly though he had feelings for other than just for sex. She starts telling him about his life and he gets flashbacks and finnaly he realizes that the mother he has been paying for in the hospital was not even his real mother.
   
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