Finished: Lullaby (Palahniuk). Verrry disturbing, but verrry good! I'd never read a Chuck Palahniuk book before, but I knew he was the author of Fight Club. Having seen Fight Club the movie, I didn't want to read that book. So...I picked Lullaby, which was part thriller, part moralizing, part disturbing, and wholly entertaining! It is about a reporter who is supposed to be doing a story about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome...why do babies die unexpectedly? In reality, he thinks he already knows why. There is a poem in an old lullaby book called a culling song which in ancient times was read to terminal people as they were dying...it helped speed the process and aided in a peaceful death. The reporter unknowingly read this poem to his infant daughter and his wife twenty years before, and they were dead by the next morning. In current times, he recites the poem to his newspaper editor (who he's not very fond of) to test his theory...and the next morning the editor is dead! He realizes what power can come from being able to kill whoever you want at any time. Or, the horror of the poem floating out in society being read to untold number of children in schools, etc. He discovers a realtor who also accidentally killed her child twenty years before, who knows about the culling song. There are only 500 copies of the book in the U.S. They go on the road, together with two other characters, in hopes of destroying the rest of the books. At least that's his hope...the realtor wants to find the original source of the book in hopes there is a reverse spell. She wants to bring her baby back, who she's kept alive (I think in a cryogenic facility??) Anyway, the other two characters have their own plans as well....and another former friend of the reporter's who figures it out and uses the culling spell for his own creepy devices. Lullaby kept me turning the pages once again, with several twisty surprises at the end. It reminded me alot of a good Dean Koontz book. :-) I may read some more Palahniuk down the road!