I read...
"Survivor" by Chuck Palahniuk (the guy who penned Fight Club)

Didn't love it, didn't hate it. The whole book is like a parody. Hyper symbolic. But his sentences and passages are really smart. Like each and every one is mocking. Well I think I just prefer lushness.

It makes me think of Fight Club, the film. The thing I really didn't like about the film was the narration, because it was so sharp and scathing. I actually thought that the narration would work fine in a book but it's just too much when spoken outloud.

So I can totally see that this Palahniuk guy is sort of a genius with words but I dunno, I will never like mean-spiritedness, hostility, mockery, etc.