While you're waiting for your copy of Tell All
I've noticed more and more sites (American Chronicals/shelf safari etc) suggesting the novel NO HOPE FOR GOMEZ! to fans of Palahniuk. At first glance, the Amazon page does look kinda cool and quirky, but has anyone here read this novel? care to tell us about it?
Who are these people?
Newish people that really like to read. 
Well, what can I say; you’re in luck, mate. I’ve just been gathering quotes for a little review. I’d say "buy it"
And if that statement doesn’t convince you, check out these tit-bits
"I shouted the perfect words to scare him off. It was just the delivery (and only the delivery) that made me sound like a twelve-year-old girl with pee running down her leg.
I felt dirty and stupid."
"Mathematicians finally developed a financial model to accurately compare apples and oranges. Any two kinds of fruit can be compared, although guavas still cause minor rounding errors."
"The stalker, meanwhile, stepped out into the road. Didn’t even check for traffic. There wasn’t any, but something told me this was lucky for traffic rather than the stalker"
"When I thought back over my life, I realized I had been playing hard to get almost continuously. I’d ignored women intensely (to the point of being a danger to them in traffic). I’d ignored them because I’d assumed I didn’t stand a chance."
"We played for about half an hour before I realized we were actually playing two different games. What I’d thought of as ludo was actually a game called gin rummy, and what Warren was playing seemed to be a mixture of craps and table tennis.
Once we started playing by one consistent set of rules, though, the fun was really over."
There are more (many more in fact) but you get the drift; this guy’s brain operates under entirely different physics…
lemme know if this was helpful in any way :)
Let me know when and where to look for your review. Some of those quotes are great, but I read the first three pages on Amazon and it didn't really suck me in. I may take another look based on a review. I'm gong to read an interview with the author now: http://www.bookpleasures.com/websitepublisher/articles/2195/1/Meet--Grah...
Thanks Johnny13 and Mirka, the quotes were really cool and the interview was a lot of fun There's also a review that goes with the interview: http://www.bookpleasures.com/websitepublisher/articles/2193/1/No-Hope-fo...
but you probably found that already
Anyway, I'm definitely going to get this book!
I thought there were some really cool things in the first 3 or 4 pages, either way the story does seem to pick up rather quickly after that - there are in fact two whole chapters online.
Oh yeah, and I liked this bit 
"
Norm:
What do you want your book to do? Amuse people? Provoke thinking?
Graham:
My ideal reader sits in she shade of a palm-tree, sipping a colorful cocktail, giggling away happily. As soon as he’s finished reading, though, he realizes that his mind is ruined forever. But, by then, it’s too late."
On a more serious note, I'm really failing to see any sort of parallel between this book and anything Palahniuk has done, whether it's syntax, choruses, structure--I'm not seeing the connection. That's not a bad thing, but I think some people are a little bit too quick to make the Palahniuk connection when playing their literary version of pandora.com. Besides, Chuck is experimenting so much that this second half of his career has barely any consistency when compared to his first few books. Also, the thread title would lead someone to assume that this book is either comparable to "Tell All" or an appropriate lead-in. I've read "Tell All" and it's completely different from anything he's done previously, so the comparison, regardless of how you meant it, is pretty much groundless.
And I'm with Mirka on this...read the first few pages...didn't get hooked--not because it didn't have Chuck's fingerprints on it. It's opening failed to make me want more.
Next time you plug a book, do the author a favor and push it based on its own merit. I'm sure this guy doesn't need a literary shadow to live in.
You’re right. These are completely different writers. I wasn't actually comparing.
By the way, thanks for plugging “Out of Touch.” I just looked it up on Amazon and it looks really cool. And, if you don’t mind me saying, it does have a little fight club feel to the writing. I’ll be checking it out.
Yeah this is it: http://www.amazon.com/No-Hope-Gomez-Graham-Parke/dp/1432752480
Well, what can I say; you’re in luck, mate. I’ve just been gathering quotes for a little review. I’d say "buy it"
And if that statement doesn’t convince you, check out these tit-bits
"I shouted the perfect words to scare him off. It was just the delivery (and only the delivery) that made me sound like a twelve-year-old girl with pee running down her leg.
I felt dirty and stupid."
"Mathematicians finally developed a financial model to accurately compare apples and oranges. Any two kinds of fruit can be compared, although guavas still cause minor rounding errors."
"The stalker, meanwhile, stepped out into the road. Didn’t even check for traffic. There wasn’t any, but something told me this was lucky for traffic rather than the stalker"
"When I thought back over my life, I realized I had been playing hard to get almost continuously. I’d ignored women intensely (to the point of being a danger to them in traffic). I’d ignored them because I’d assumed I didn’t stand a chance."
"We played for about half an hour before I realized we were actually playing two different games. What I’d thought of as ludo was actually a game called gin rummy, and what Warren was playing seemed to be a mixture of craps and table tennis.
Once we started playing by one consistent set of rules, though, the fun was really over."
There are more (many more in fact) but you get the drift; this guy’s brain operates under entirely different physics…
lemme know if this was helpful in any way