Since this book is comprised of short stories by different writers that Chuck Palahniuk chose himself, I was expecting a lot more out of this. Most of these stories, I did not care for at all. Some of the plots were creative, but I just didn't care. What makes it worse is that some of the stories seemed to just be written for the sake of being over-the-top disgusting. I'm a huge fan of Palahniuk, but I really felt like these writers were all trying to emulate his style - and they missed their mark. I read this quickly just to get it over with.