So that's why I would recommend the Remix version, because while the standard version (with its telling of the story out of chronological order) gives you that feeling as well, having to flip back and forth through the chapters amplifies it and truly immerses you in the book. The main character of the book was a model and many of her friends are models as well, so the book makes you think a lot about how superficial people are, how life is just a performance in many ways, and allows you to try to know the person behind the curtain, the person who exists beyond the fashion magazine spread, etc., so the idea is that the book should read like a magazine or a catalogue, it should feel like you're missing something as you read, you should be feeling that anxiety that no matter how hard you try or how careful you are, you're going to miss something and, as Chuck writes in the second chapter, get used to it.
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Available To: All Free Library locations and online with your library card. A Free Library of Philadelphia card and PIN is required for onsite and offsite use. The beginning of the book states that you are going to feel as though you missed something as you read, and that you should get used to that feeling because it's a part of life. ComicsPlus All Access offers thousands of digital comics, graphic novels, and manga for kids, teens, and adults. The Remix version is also the way Palahniuk originally intended for the book to be consumed which is why I would recommend the Remix version. Invisible Monsters è un romanzo dello scrittore statunitense Chuck Palahniuk del 1999.
The events of the story are uncovered in the same order as the standard version, I think, but the end of the chapters will say "turn to chapter 5" or whatever so you're physically flipping through the book the way you flip through a magazine. The remix version is also not read starting at page 1 and ending on the final page. There isn't a major difference imo, but here's the thing: the Remix version contains extra chapters. My recommendation is to read both, and Remix the way it was intended, although I haven't done the latter. The jumping around isn't inherently bad on its own it simply makes reading it more complicated than it needs to be, but I guess Palahniuk didn't see a reason to publish the exact same book but with the chapters mixed up so he added the extra ones. It's not really like "choose your own adventure" because the ending is still the same regardless. Remix was published more than a decade later, in 2012 and the extra chapters seemed like such an afterthought to me, because they were never part of Palahniuk's original vision to begin with. The flipping around was Palahniuk's original intention, but his editor told him no one would put that much effort into reading a book that way, and since it was his first novel (which was ultimately this third published one) he decided on a standard chronological version.
Then the Remix version immediately after, but I read it in numerical order, not ping-ponging back and forth until I get to the end (in the physical middle) of the book. This is the best book I ever read and I read the standard version first, in 2 days.
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