![]() ![]() ![]() He kidnaps Talbott, straps him to a chair, tortures him as a way to coerce the secrets of getting rich quick out of him. Walter is a young man on the make looking for an easy, surefire way to sweep the love of his life Shasta off her feet and into his bed. ![]() But one old supposed rich man, Talbott Reynolds, has other thoughts, which he dictates to Walter Baines. The United States of America has reached an inflection point characterized by discontentment among the young, especially young men whom the government plans to send off to war as the tried and true historical way to maintain stability and reduce violence (youth bulge theory argued by German sociologist and economist Gunnar Heinsohn). ![]() It’s they who seize the reins of power by brutal force in these pages. Ideal candidates for this novel are men under thirty who have wet dreams about blasting themselves to the pinnacle of power. Palahniuk is the kind of writer who seems to enjoy splashing words on a page, and here he goes to the extreme of that by splattering words on the page, and in the first third of the book that means literally, down to describing in detail the putrefaction of a victim on the Adjustment Day overthrow. To some, this current populist revolt fueled by its underpinnings of anger, fear, and racism seems pretty chaotic, but it could be much worse it could be like the aftermath of Adjustment Day, Chuck Palahniuk’s latest novel. ![]()
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