Brilliant satire and savagely funny, Survivor offers much to admire. Palahniuk displays a swiftian gift for satire, as well as a knack for crafting mesmerizing sentences that loom with stark, prickly prose and repetitive rhythms * San Francisco Chronicle * Survivor comes bowling forth out of the same dark corner of the mind as Fight Club... Like its predecessor, it is a terminal novel, a novel that applies the firing-squad principle to extort tortured eloquence from its doomed narrator * Esquire * Immensely entertaining...an extremly funny account of an outsider stuck inside America * Independent on Sunday * Maybe our generation has found its Don DeLillo * Bret Easton Ellis * A comedy of horrors, a pantomimic romp through America's obsession with secrets and confessions * Arena *