Lullaby

Chuck Palahniuk

Jul 2003 · Sold by Anchor

About this ebook

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of the New York Times bestseller Choke and the cult classic Fight Club, a cunningly plotted novel about the ultimate verbal weapon, one that reinvents the apocalyptic thriller for our times. 

"A harrowing and hilarious glimpse into the future of civilization.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Ever heard of a culling song? It’s a lullaby sung in Africa to give a painless death to the old or infirm. The lyrics of a culling song kill, whether spoken or even just thought. You can find one on page 27 of Poems and Rhymes from Around the World, an anthology that is sitting on the shelves of libraries across the country, waiting to be picked up by unsuspecting readers.

Reporter Carl Streator discovers the song’s lethal nature while researching Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, and before he knows it, he’s reciting the poem to anyone who bothers him. As the body count rises, Streator glimpses the potential catastrophe if someone truly malicious finds out about the song. The only answer is to find and destroy every copy of the book in the country. Accompanied by a shady real-estate agent, her Wiccan assistant, and the assistant’s truly annoying ecoterrorist boyfriend, Streator begins a desperate cross-country quest to put the culling song to rest.

Ratings and reviews

This book took on a very supernatural tone and made it Palahniuk style. Sadly I can't speak too much on it as almost every page contains a clue to a twist or plot device later on. Well crafted to say the least, one of my favorites.

I hated Palahniuk's book "Choke." I think he has a bad habit for throwing in too many twists at the end, but in the book "Lullaby" I think the twists fit and it kept me interested the entire time.

While this book may be fictitious it is in my opinion the best book in the history of books. I've read it twice and would read it again and again. If you can read..read it. The truth is undeniable.

About the author

CHUCK PALAHNIUK is the author of fourteen novels—Beautiful You, Doomed, Damned, Tell-All, Pygmy, Snuff, Rant, Haunted, Diary, Lullaby, Choke, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, and Fight Club—which have sold more than five million copies altogether in the United States. He is also the author of Fugitives and Refugees, published as part of the Crown Journey Series, and the nonfiction collection Stranger Than Fiction. He lives in the Pacific Northwest. Visit him on the web at chuckpalahniuk.net.