This was a bold departure from Palahniuk's normal writing: good. It was sensationalist, meant merely to shock. Much like the trumped-up stories of the normals fainting at the author readings. I imagine it was more like their eyes rolled so far back in their head that they were thought to be fainting. Unfortunately, it started a downhill trend continuing in Rant, which I really tried to get into. Really I did. I didn't even bother flipping through the new one: Snuff. Please. Visualize me "fainting".