Talk:Diary (novel)

message: First of all, the book doesn't take the form of a "coma diary". At least, that's not the impression that I got. Am I way off?
Second of all, part of the every-four-generations-plot involved forcing corporations to scrub their names from the island, leaving the inhabitants in peace for a while.
Also, "lured by old jewelry"? Really? I know it's tough to explain it in a brief summary, but that's just poorly written. --Chacharu (talk) 00:23, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I really enjoyed the book.  It's boring for the first few chapters because you don't really get what's going on, but it gets increasingly better throughout the remainder of the novel.  It's one of those stories that provides more questions even as it answers old ones. Jeff Silvers 01:27, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

text: I also enjoyed the book very much. The entire book is summed up to make complete sense by the letter to the author on the very last page. I would recommend Diary to anybody who enjoyed good literature, which obviously does not include the first anonymous poster. 35.11.242.130 21:13, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

text: And even so, this is not place for opinion, more a place to discuss the edition of the article in question. If you didn't like the book, become famous, write a review, and we will probably include it in the article. If you did liked the book, same thing goes. 205.211.221.52 (talk) 01:19, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

text: I just finished it. While I had a hard time hanging on at first, the payoff at the end -- as with all of Palahniuk's pieces -- was worth it. I enjoyed it. --Chacharu (talk) 00:20, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot summary... 

message: This book blows. The plot is boring, and the writing is pretentious. Read it as if you were watching an episode of Mystery Science Theatre 3000, and remember to laugh often. Or do something else entirely instead.
:I really enjoyed the book.  It's boring for the first few chapters because you don't really get what's going on, but it gets increasingly better throughout the remainder of the novel.  It's one of those stories that provides more questions even as it answers old ones. Jeff Silvers 01:27, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I also enjoyed the book very much. The entire book is summed up to make complete sense by the letter to the author on the very last page. I would recommend Diary to anybody who enjoyed good literature, which obviously does not include the first anonymous poster. 35.11.242.130 21:13, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

text: And even so, this is not place for opinion, more a place to discuss the edition of the article in question. If you didn't like the book, become famous, write a review, and we will probably include it in the article. If you did liked the book, same thing goes. 205.211.221.52 (talk) 01:19, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

text: I just finished it. While I had a hard time hanging on at first, the payoff at the end -- as with all of Palahniuk's pieces -- was worth it. I enjoyed it. --Chacharu (talk) 00:20, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Bad Book 

message: Needs to be neutralized. Satchfan 07:40, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, especially the huge "Acclaim" section.  That either needs to be removed or tempered with a "Criticisms" section. Jeff Silvers 20:47, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I removed it.-- ¢² Connor K.   22:51, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article reads like an ad 

message: Could someone fix up the plot summary? It explains nothing about the conspiracy of the Islanders to become rich as well as drive away the summer people, and rather gives an extremely inaccurate one-sentence explanation of the ending. It's already marked for spoilers, so why not sum up what really happened? - 69.253.55.143 22:37, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it's not likely that anyone will add a spoiler warning—and if one editor does, another editor will come along and remove it. The concensus seems to be that plot summary = spoilers, and that people are intelligent enough that adding an additional spoiler tag is unnecessary. Which makes sense to me: If you don't want to know what happens, you shouldn't be reading a plot summary in the first place. --ShelfSkewed Talk 15:05, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The first paragraph of this article is copied directly off of the description on the back of the book.  This may be a copyright infringement.  I would recommend someone fix that.  To 129.237.90.54, by even allowing themselves to look at the art, knowing well in advance that they'd be mesmerized by it, they were knowingly causing their own deaths.  As for your analysis that the jewelry was not magical, that is correct.  Allixpeeke 04:37, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

text: Okay, I altered the first paragraph.  I may add a section on characters as well.  Allixpeeke 04:47, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot Summary