A turbo-charged, deliciously manic satire of contemporary American life. [Palahniuk] rearranges Vonnegut's sly humor, DeLillo's mordant social analysis and Pynchon's antic surrealism (or is it R. Crumb's) into a gleaming puzzle palace all his own. -- Newsday
Convoluted, maniacally comic, partaking deeply of the America that streams towards us in the dead of night from the cable channels-that place of outrageous expectation, slavish idolatry, fanatic consumerism, and mind-stopping banality. -- Esquire
Mordant...One's sympathy for the improbably, doomed hero is fully engaged -- The New Yorker
A dead-on send-up of the media, celebrity and pop culture. -- Seattle Post Intelligencer
The perfect comment on our apocalypse-fixated times. -- Spin
Maybe our generation has found its Don DeLillo. -- Bret Easton Ellis
Impressive...Palahniuk's DeLilloesque cultural witticisms and his satirical take on the culture of instant celebrity invest the narrative with a dark humor. -- Publishers Weekly
A morbidly fascinating black fantasy...Brilliant, engrossing, substantial, and fun: Palahniuk carves out credible, moving dramas. -- Kirkus Reviews
