As a Salon reader, I was surprised by the viciousness of this attack and the one-sidedness of the response letters they chose to publish after the review. There seems to be an overwhelming feeling by the reviewer that Palahniuk's novels are for male-geek-loners. As a female[geek]socializer, I'm offended and puzzled by this viewpoint, as I am by the inability of the reviewer to get beyond the literal when it comes to "mistakes" in these wonderfully bizarre works.