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Adjustment Day
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
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- Simon
- 06-07-18
Has the Fight Gone Out of Chuck?
When I read Fight Club I re-learned the lesson of not judging a book by its cover because it really was a far more intelligent and absorbing read than I had imagined. Adjustment Day taught me a new lesson: Never judge an author's latest book by one of his earlier ones! This simply never got going for me, a mish-mash of characters and scenes stopped it ever gaining momentum and never once presented me with a character that I cared about. It stuttered and stumbled its way rather than ever accelerating smoothly towards a satisfactory conclusion. The narration by Christopher Ragland is just fine. Clear concise and with enough variety to make it a decent performance but it was never going to be enough to lift this material. So, while there are moments in this when Palahnuik shows his talent you have to wade through a lot that just doesn't feel like it matters to find them. I can't really recommend this one.
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- STEPHEN
- 16-08-18
Excellent Entertainment!
This is great, great fun! The plot is twisty and, in parts, head-melting! Super narration!
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- Foz
- 05-03-20
Good not great
Great start to the story but it fails off in the last 3rd and I felt myself less engaged. That being said it is still solid and definitely worth a look but not in the same league as Fight Club, Survior or choke. Narration is solid and didn’t make me want to switch off as so many narrators do. It would be great to get Chuck reading a few of his books. I’ve been to one of his signings and his readings were awesome
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- Tiger Massey
- 24-05-19
a great first draft
a great first draft of what could of been a fantastic compelling story but all falls into a an incomprehensible mess near the end, that leave a taste of self indulgence.
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- C. Campbell
- 30-04-19
Interesting thought experiment but lacking spark
The story elements seem like an excuse for the book to be fiction, rather than a thought experiment. There are a few too many characters since there are so many ideas to cover, leaving them difficult to engage with. And there is too much self-awareness for my tastes. But a timely reminder that cultures do not last, and can change completely.
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- Amazon Customer
- 14-11-18
Story was cluttered and rambling
Tried to stick with it but didn't make it to the end . Story seemed like a good idea at the start but it rambled on and didn't go anywhere for a long time and I gave up on it .
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- C E Andrews
- 05-08-18
storyline hard to keep up with
The story jumped between characters and the narration was fast paced often with no discernable break between characters. I think maybe as a book it would work but audio I struggled with. the story never really got me hooked either. I wasn't into any of the characters so didn't really care what happened to them.
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- Gareth Galea
- 24-07-18
Loved it, but...
I loved the ideas in this book and I felt it made a lot of extremely valid political points delivered with the writer's trademark graphic punchiness. The writer asks "what if the American dream of the 21st century came true?", and his answer is equal parts shocking, hilarious and even, on some level, attractive. Unfortunately it sometimes felt as though some plot elements could have been explained better and some characters could have been explored in more depth (and there are a lot of exciting characters here). Not Chuck's best book, but still worth a read I reckon.
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- Kilgore Trout
- 07-09-19
Boring as sociology professor lecture
I am a fan of Chuck Palahniuk books but this book in some chapters transforms itself to a profesor lecture of alternating history. I prefer to discover the story through characters. The idea of the book is original and interesting however
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- Amazon Customer
- 31-08-19
An Awesome concept, poorly developed.
I came to listen this audiobook by recommendation of a friend who has listened the first chapter, the concept was exiting, concerning the present days. But after the main event , the proper adjusment day, the story falls to a boring collection of confusing storylines of the "thousand" characters that the author presents. I must confess that I finish the book for compromise and for make my audible's credit count. A disappointing one.