ππππ(5/5) The gritty, gory classics from the golden age of Palahniuk continue to satisfy in unprecedented ways... A culling song is a spell which sends the listener off into the blissful embrace of death. Intended to be sung to the sick, wounded, elderly or starving as they lay dying in order to save them from suffering, the culling song passed out of human memory for many years until it was translated and printed in a children's book of bedtime songs and rhymes. Now a journalist on the case of a sudden outbreak of sudden infant death syndrome must team up with a witch and two hippies as they criss-cross the country in an effort to destroy every copy of the songbook. As with any piece of information we shouldn't have heard in the first place, the culling song worms its way into the journalist's mind. Will he learn to control his thoughts, or come to kill each and every living thing which happens to come across his path and cause him the slightest annoyance? Lullaby is a dream-like sojourn into a world where words hold dynamic power, information can spread and propogate itself like a virus, and listening to the wrong song can literally kill. It asks the questions of warfare which have been with the human race since the dawn of our history: Do we only love what we control? Do we really have choices, or is the incessant stream of advertisements, propganda, religion, politics and media which bombards us daily making our decisions for us? And, would the world be a better place without us? #bookstagram #booksireadin2017 #readinglist2017 #bookrecommendation @ChuckPalahniuk #ChuckPalahniuk #lullaby #_bookshelf2017_
