Hello  everybody!
I  am  the  Astronauta  from  the  channel
and  blog  "Astronauta  e  Andarilho".
And  I'm  here  today
to  tell  a  book  review.
The  chosen  book  was  "Survivor".
This  book  was  written
by  the  same  author
of  the  "Fight  Club".
Chuck  Palahniuk.
I  don't  know
if  I'm  saying  right.
But,  that's  how
I  see  people  speaking.
This  is  the  second
book  of  him  that  I'm  reading.
First  it  was  "Fight
Club",  then  "Survivor"
and  now,  I'm  reading  "Damned".
This  one  here.
I'm  already  in  his
third  book.  I'm  finishing  it.
By  my  Kindle  bar,\I'm
at  79%  of  the  book.
There's  18  minutes  left.
One  of  my  favorite
things  of  Kindle  is  this  read  bar.
I  didn't  finished  it  today,
I  was  going  to  make
the  two  reviews  together,  but
I  was  with  headache
at  my  way  back  home.
Starting  up,
Survivors  tells  the
story  of  Tender  Branson.
What  a  name,  right?
At  first,  you  can't
understand  who  he  is.
What's  he  doing,
he  looks  like
a  modern  slave.
And  one  of  the
things  that  calls  the  attention
He  receives
phone  calls  at  home.
Calls  from  people
asking  for  help,
people  that  are
about  to  suicide.
And  depending  of  his
humor,  tell  them  to  go  ahead.
No,  that's  not  normal.
The  story  is  very  confused,
you  can't  tell  exactly  when  it
happen,  but  appears  to  be  nowadays.
I'm  at  his  third  book,
and  make  a
lot  of  social  critcs.
Mostly  to  the  American  lifestyle.
The  American  dream  of
consumption,  realization
and  everything  else.
So,  Tender's  history
goes  with  you  discovering  how
he  ended  up  at  a  family's  house
where  each  minute  of  his
life  for  the  25,  30  years  ahead,
the  rest  of  his  life
are  already  recorded
saying  what  he's  gonna  do.
He  speaks  with  the
intercom,  never  see  his  bosses
and  need  to
teach  them   etiquette ,  how  to  eat
each  food  that  he  prepares
in  that  dinner  which  the  rich  bosses
will  have  along  with
their  rich  friends.
It's  a  very  crazy  book
but  you  can  see  at  the  same  time
how  he  likes  to  make
that  social  view
of  consumption  and  stuff.
The  book's  very
interesting.  I  liked  a  lot  of  it.
It  begins  when  Tender
kidnaps  an  airplane
and  tell  everybody  to  go  away.
He's  telling  his  story
to  the  black  box  of  the  plane.
He  describes  how  he  get  there
after  all,  he  wants  that
the  black  box,  actually  it's  orange
can  continue  his  story
because  no  one  else  would  know.
Until  then,  you  think  he's  no  one.
Resuming,  he's  in  a
religion  called  "Creedish".
He's  a  believer.
I  don't  know  if  it's  the  translation
is  purposed  to  be  closer  to  us,
I  don't  know  what  it  was.
But,  he's  a  believer  as  we  know
believer  is  the  one
that  believes  in  "God's  words".
He's  from  the  Creedish
Curch  and  as  the
book  goes  on,  you  can
see  all  the  structure.
and  how  they  are  mad,  fanatics.
The  house  of  the  family  that
he  works  for  is  very  wealthy.
So,  there's  rooms  and  more  rooms,
and  everything  is
programmed,  so
they  call  him  at  the  intercom,
knowing  he  can't  pick  up,
screw  him  if  he'll  do.
He  can't  do  that.
I  don't  know
how  to  picture  him.
There's  one  thing...
I  guess...
Folks,  this  is  a   spoiler  alert .
His  family  suicides.
10  years  ago,
they  killed  themselves.
Actually,  everybody  of
his  village  commited  suicide.
Because  of  the  Creedish.
They  believed  that  when
the  Apocalypses  come,
they  would  have  to...
kill  themselves  to
go  straight  to  God's  lap.
He  was  one  of  the  survivors
that's  where  came
the  name  of  the  book,
you  think
what  you  want.
The  book's  full  of  hard  critics
to  the  beauty  pattern
there's  a  part  when  he
appears  in  the  television,
he  has  to  change  everything.
He's  just  a  scruffy  ugly  guy
with  a  horrible  haircut
a  little  bit  old,  and  he  goes
trough  a  major  transformation.
He  tells  about  how
Don't  "Meow",  Zelda.
Come  here  you!
Come!
Come  to  show  in  Youtube!
This  is  Zelda.
This  cute
little  thing.
Bipolar,  misbehaved,
go  away
go,  you  beauty  stinky  thing.
Stinky!  Soon,  I'll  open
the  door.
She's  biting  me,  folks.
Fucking  cute  thing.
You  can't  see,
but  she's  biting  me!
You  little...
Go.
He  tells  all  that
and  one  of  the  most
cool  things  are  the  stars.
Movie,  television  folks,  media  people.
Spoiler  Alert.
He  finds  a  girl,
that  is  a  redhead,  if  I'm
not  mistaken,  very  Caucasian
and  she  has  dreams
about  the  future.
So,  she  knows  when  a
natural  disaster  is  going  to  happen.
The  most  interesting
is  that  her  brother
committed  suicide.
and  he  has  the  same  thing.
He  killed  himself  because,
you  remember
Tender  picked  up  calls
from  desperated  people...
Her  brother  was  one  of  those.
They  met  at  the  graveyard
because  Tender,  after
helps  killing  those  people
like,  put  a  gun  in  their  head
and  ask  them  to  shoot,
he  went  to  the  graveyard,
he  read  the  obituary  of  the  day,
how  many  people  he  manipulated.
And  went  to  the  cemetery
to  see  those  people
in  the  coffin,  dead.
See  what  happens.
And  that's  where  he
found  this  guy's  sister.
The  story  goes  on  very  nicely.
The  author's  style  is  shocking
mainly  for  the  ones  that
are  used  to  a  descriptive  narrative.
There's  a  lot  of
reasoning  cuts,  I  don't
know  if  there's  a
specific  name  for  that,
but  he  does  it  a  lot.
The  same  thing  he
did  at  "Fight  Club".
He  does  it  at  "Survival"
he  does  it  at  "Damned"
I  belive  that  all  his
books  follows  that  pattern.
So,  for  example
Tender  is  very  good  at
housework.  He  was  raised  for  that.
The,  he's  telling
something  and  cuts  to  "Ask  me
how  to  cover  a
bullet  hole  on  the  wall".
You  become  a  bit
confused,  think  he's  a  bit  lunatic.
End  he  aswers  "With
toothpaste  and  something  else.
and  he  struggles
and  came  with  a  question:
"Ask  me  how  to  do  something"
and  3  lines  of  that.
The,  it  goes  to
be  continuing.
A  very  dynamic
thing  and  I  wasn't  used  to.
I  was  used  to
the  last  book  i  read
that  is  "Ready  Player  One".
Which  has  a
review  at  our  channel
In  the  information  box.
And  not  only  "Ready  Player  One",
but  all  my  previous  readings  were
very  descriptive,
and  this  one  is  not.
He  goes  on  and  you
seen,  it's  already  happening.
It's  not  tiresome  or  monotonous.
Therefore,  it's  a  book
you  read  very  quick.
And  the  critics  are
not  disguised.  They're  very
hard.
Wants  to  show  how
much  the  Relligion  manipulates
control  the  people,
mainly  in  the
"sex"  category.
That's  a  taboo  for  him,
another  weapon  of  the
Religion  to  control  people.
For  the  people
to  feel  weak.
He  quotes  a  lot
of  stuff  form  the  bible.
I  couldn't  check  all
but,  I  checked  on  two
Luke  something...
and  it  really  was  that.
So,  he  uses  all  that
religion  bullshit
Shut  up  Zelda.
And  you  think
"God,  how  could
someone  do  that?"
"How  could  someone
think  such  thing?"
When  he  starts  to
tell  what  did  he  family,
what  the  people  that  went
to  the  outside  world  saw.
And  he  justifies  lots
of  that  bullshit
with  quotes
from  the  bible.
So,  if  you're  a  religious  people,
I  suggest  you  to  don't  read  it.
Because  there's
some  heavy  critics.
And  if  you  are  in  deed
someone  convinced
read  too.
All  the  way,
read  it.  The
book's  good.
The  writer  too.
It's  fast.
I  don't  know  folks,  the
book's  so  rich  in  the  critics
but  I'm  afraid  to  give
lots  of  spoilers,  you  know?
Because  it's  not  descriptive
there's  not
much  I  can  say
except  that
he's  in  America.
This  was  another
book  review.
With  Chuck  Palahniuk.
And  soon,  we'll  have
another  review  of
this  good  book  "Damned".
Just  to  give  a  mini-spoiler
of  the  next  video,
It's  a  13-year-old  girl  that  went
to  the  hell  because  of
a  marijuana  overdose.
No,  there's  no
marijuana  overdose.
But  the  hell  is
a  very  ugly  thing.
Here,  yes,  he
describes  the  environment,
I  have  to  say  that
he's  very  good,
and  keep  writing
books  for  us.
I'm  almost  finishing  "Damned"
and  I'll  start  "Doomed".
I  guess  that's  the  name.
If  you  want
hints  of  anything
For  example,  the  Kindle,
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that  I  won  from
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from  the  most  wonderful
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