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Lullaby

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The consequences of media saturation are the basis for an urban nightmare in Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk’s darkly comic and often dazzling thriller. Assigned to write a series of feature articles investigating SIDS, troubled newspaper reporter Carl Streator begins to notice a pattern among the cases he encounters: each child was read the same poem prior to his or her death. His research and a tip from a necrophilic paramedic lead him to Helen Hoover Boyle, a real estate agent who sells «distressed» (demonized) homes, assured of their instant turnover. Boyle and Streator have both lost children to «crib death,» and she confirms Streator’s suspicions: the poem is an ancient lullaby or «culling song» that is lethal if spoken — or even thought — in a victim’s direction. The misanthropic Streator, now armed with a deadly and uncontrollably catchy tune, goes on a minor killing spree until he recognizes his crimes and the song’s devastating potential. Lullaby then turns into something of a road…
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  • Jessica Ramirezделится впечатлением8 лет назад
    👍Worth reading
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    🚀Unputdownable

    The concept of this Lullaby being what it is keeps you engaged from page one until you have to put it down

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  • kravenцитирует6 лет назад
    Imagine if Jesus chased you around, trying to catch you and save your soul. Not just a patient passive God, but a hardworking, aggressive bloodhound.
  • kravenцитирует6 лет назад
    Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When they had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving them an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave.
    Athena was telling them to fall in love.
    Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy.
  • kravenцитирует6 лет назад
    I don't know the difference between what I want and what I'm trained to want.
    I can't tell what I really want and what I've been tricked into wanting.
    What I'm talking about is free will. Do we have it, or does God dictate and script everything we do and say and want? Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we're born? Do I have it, or is my mind under the control of Helen's spell?

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