Reviews
Adjustment Day feels, in many ways, like a novel made out of the times we're living in--one in which cult of personality (and a desire to belong to specific tribes) fractures the world people are familiar with, and creates something different--and worse--in its wake., A quick, horrifying descent into madness and murder, gorgeous in its psychotic build-up and over-the-top execution., A dystopian nightmare that takes all the fractures of our modern society and escalates them to a perverted climax., Visionary and fearless . . . perhaps [Palahniuk's] darkest, most biting satire to date. . . . Razor-sharp insights and boundless imagination are matched only by his ability to make even the most stomach-churning scenes somehow vividly entertaining. . . . Equal parts Jonathan Swift and Tyler Durden., Palahniuk toys with our cultural dividing lines--race, class, sexuality--and all the fears, myths, and conspiracies that come along with them. The result is a novel that straddles both the horrific and the absurd, kind of like present-day America., [Palahniuk] takes the United States' divided politics to their extreme conclusion and proves along the way that his gift for social satire has only sharpened with time., [Adjustment Day] is what you'd expect from the author best known for writing Fight Club: violent, kinetic, and deeply disturbing.