

Plus: Check out Book Beast, for more news on hot titles and authors and excerpts from the latest books.Ĭhuck Palahniuk’s previous novels are the bestselling Rant, Haunted, Lullaby, Diary, Choke -which was made into a 2008 film by director Clark Gregg, starring Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston- Survivor, Invisible Monsters, and Fight Club, which was made into a film by director David Fincher. Of course, there’s redemption, but not before a ton of laughs.

The dream falls apart as he sprouts breasts he can’t conceal inside his skimpy Spandex costume, then suffers high colonics in order to pass mandatory drug tests. After a dark childhood, steroids launch the author into a new life as a national celebrity built from mountains of chemically enhanced muscle. Clark formerly played the character “Nitro” on the television series American Gladiators, and if you read only one book on vacation this year, this has to be it. "There's redemption, but not before a ton of laughs."

Gladiator: A True Story of 'Roids, Rage and Redemptionby Dan Clark aka Nitro
