# Lullaby.. ( possible spoilers if you haven't read it)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 5, 2003, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lullaby-possible-spoilers-if-you-havent-read-it/217185 "2003-12-05T17:28:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lullaby-possible-spoilers-if-you-havent-read-it/217185/1 "2003-12-05T17:28:58Z")

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Thanks to several recommendations from the SDMB members to read Chuck Palahniuck, I picked up **Lullaby** a week ago. I am about halfway through it and no it hasn’t taken me that long to read it but with the holiday I just haven’t had the time to read.

I am enjoying it for the most part. The Wiccan meeting had me falling over laughing. Oyster would have been SO DEAD had I been in Carl’s place.

My only complaint is that the author seems to jump around a lot. I was totally caught off guard and missed the point where Helen stopped being an adversary and started being an ally. And one page the characters are standing around a dead parrot and two pages later they are in a car driving all over the US looking for copies of the poem.

Okay, I grant all the details between those two points are easily left out and pretty tedious to read. But it was a bit of a jarring experience especially given Oyster’s behavior previously.

But still, I have to say this is one weird book and I am enjoying it immensely!

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**Author:** ![Spoonbender](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spoonbender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoonbender)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lullaby-possible-spoilers-if-you-havent-read-it/217185/2 "2003-12-05T19:09:38Z")

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Just so I can be the first to say it, if you like **Lullaby** you’ll probably like **Fight Club** even more.

Oops, I just broke the first rule…

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**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lullaby-possible-spoilers-if-you-havent-read-it/217185/3 "2003-12-05T21:50:58Z")

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I thought **Lullaby** was well written, but depressing as heck.

It didn’t make me want to read any more Chuk Palahniuk.

But I like more cheerful books, as a rule.