Does anyone else kind of sort of hate Lullaby?

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by John S [/i]
[B]Regarding your signature: "It's never too late to stop killing people." I am so glad to see another fine Christian on this forum which is usually so overcrowded with the unsaved and unrepentant that I can barely tolerate to read more than a few posts on any given thread before I am just sickend - Sickened! - and have to lie down a spell with a cold compress upon my forehead. [/B][/QUOTE]

Before the Iraq war happened there were a lot of people (in Australia anyway) who didn't support it. But when it actually started a lot of those people said "well since it's happening we might as well get on with it" and my signature is in response to that basically. It's possibly not so relevant now.

lol i thought it said
"It's never too late to start killing people."

I finally read Lullaby (my cheap ass was waiting for the paperback).

For some reason, Lullaby did not have the same visceral impact on me that Chuck's other novels have had. I enjoyed it well enough, but it is nowhere near my favorite Chuck book. Survivor, Invisible Monsters, Fight Club, and Choke all still rank higher on the list for me.

I loved Lullaby...every part of it.

But one thing I hated. Killing time until my girlfriend was out of work I went into a local, smaller type library, and looked as I always do to see if they have Chuck, and if so, how much. After searching, and double searching their books, the only one I found was Lullaby. No Fight Club. No Survivor. No Choke. Just Lullaby, all by it's lonesome, sitting there besides all four hundred James Patterson books. What a bunch of schmucks.

"How dare he put out a half-assed jumbled together short story like this and sell it as a novel. " posted by Lust-E

good one. no really.
oh wait no. except lullaby is not a "half-assed jumbled together short story"
im not one to start fights or yell at people but youre an ape.

i dare you to try and write somethign that has that much impact as lullaby or even get published

i hate you for calling one of his best books that

Die.

Go Bye Bye

Lullaby is awesome

And you know what's fuckin awesome

how whoever started this thread started it as
"does anyone sort of kind of .. umm hate lullaby"

HAAAAAAAAA

someone sounds confused

Nope. I definitely don't hate lullaby. It's fuckin one of his best books.
If anyone likes lagwagon, then this message is and isn't for you
ha
they wrote a song called lullaby, and it really is about the book.
should go check out lagwagon if you like good fast punk music with a lot of good melodies

that song is awesome too its off of their new album

anyways

oh by the way

i used to never finish anything but now i.....

ummm
i just realized that i shouldnta tweaked out like that
plus
Lust E made that post like 6 months ago
so i highly doubt he/shes gonna care

but sorry anyways
i just got kinda mad when i read that

I finished it today and started reading it again. I didn't like it much until almost near the end, when I couldn't put it down.

This was the second of CP's books I've read.

It has such a slow steady buildup, a bit of information here, a jump to a scene there, and you know it's important but you can't see the big picture yet. It's kind of the way he described collecting facts. You notice all the details, you collect the facts. You don't know if they will be important later, but you try to see if there's a pattern. I remember his detailed descriptions of the colors of clothes and how things looked. The easiest way to miss the big picture is to get lost in the details. I think I'm going to like it more the second time.

yea
i think thats the way Chuck writes all his books
he makes them so damn good the second time around
cuz u remember so many things and everything hits you once again
like it did the first time, only with more buildup in your head

what a disapointment!
i previosly read diary which i really enjoyed, it was intreaging.
Lullaby was wierd in a bad way, i couldnt realate to any of the charecters. it was a good idea, but exactly that. an idea.

actually, can you help me here, am i dumb or did i just miss the whole point of the haunted house stuff, maybe thats why i didnt enjoy it much. And my mentall picture of helen was some wrinkly old tart did anyone else think that to?

Well i definatly didnt think she was loveable!
I dont think a description ofa charecter is what makes you relate to them, i had no problem with diary, and as you say, he does it in all his books.
Lullaby has totaly put me off reading any more of his books.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by zeropointzero [/i]
[B]Sorry, I didn't mean altogether missing. I'm not sure I would use the word "plenty" though. I mean, I think it took me longer to read Fight Club than Lullaby. Oh, and I picked up on some themes in all, like the whole noise-aholics thing, the irony of a poem that kills when recited and people would have to wear ear plugs or something.
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You only found a few underlying themes about society? So much of the novel was about society watching big brother and constructive destruction.

Lullaby was absolutly great stuff. I read it in, I don't how long, it doesnt matter. But aside from it being signature Chuck style(which I cream over), it had so many very great underlying themes. Like the password thing as a descrition of how a person believes they are clever, big brother singing and dancing telling us what to do(remind anyone of fight club?), noise-o-holics, and the way he assosiated the culling song with Oysters anti-corperate bio-sphere ecosystem tree-hugger shit.
I'de say the entire idea of everything being about control just made it one of my favorites(under choke). Love, he says, is about control. The noise, he says, Is all about control.
I absolutly love this book, even more now that I get a chance to talk about it.
In everyone of Chucks books, there is a theme that he always has, which is the idea of accepting Choas. Inviting uncertainty. Breathing smoke.
Lullaby, without a doubt, was great great stuff.

I can't see how anyone couldn't like the book. I thought it was great, awsome plot twist at the end, the part where Helen's son is broken to pieces almost made me sick to my stomach. I also love the social commentary on noise, especially in the beginning when he says that music now-a-days is about noise, not music. Anyway, I thought it was great.

no way. Lullaby is damn GOOD...I adored it. after Survivor. I haven't yet read a single chuck-book I disliked.

I'm going to have to say no, because I enjoyed it and being vegan, I had to laugh at Oyster in my own way. The only thing I don't really care for is the whole idea of black magic, which again only shows how great Chuck's writing is, to actually get me to enjoy something I've never personally cared for.

It was alright. The plot had me on-edge, but the tone was muddled by Chuck's description of Helen. I read this when I was absolutely into my Fight Club, anti-advertisement thing, and Helen just came off as the person I hate the most. All pink and business-oriented. I could NOT feel sympathy. For that, it was weak. I couldn't sympathize with Streator. I'll have to read it again, I suppose. Plus, the chorus-style Chuck applied here was a little much for me. But, again, that was probably due to my frustration with the tone.

how did you find this six and a half year old thread

i mean, i remember nightmonkey because he joined a couple of weeks after i did, and willtupper [of course], but i dont recognize any of these other members. odd, this.

i loved lullaby. honestly, my favorite book by chuck.
i could read it again and again.

I just finished Lullaby and I didn't enjoy it as much as other Chuck's books... I find it has some remarkable sentences, though