What you don't understand, you can make mean anything.

  Chuck Palahniuk's twisted imagination came to life yet again in his novel, Diary. He writes of a woman who is destined to save Waytansea Island with her artistic talent. This woman, Misty Wilmot, is writing a "coma diary," so that when her husband gets out of his suicide induced coma, he will know everything that has happened. And it's been a lot.
  All-in-all I didn't think this book quite matched up with all of Palahniuk's previous books. Most of his other books are very action-packed with a lot of unseen twists and turns. This book, however, didn't have very many twists, just a few slightly surprising bits here and there. For example, every so often Misty would find notes left behind by the women whose lives supposedly mirrored hers. These notes were pretty eerie, but were never very scary or surprising.
  One of the most memorable quotes from this novel is "what you don't understand you can make mean anything" (Palahniuk 1720-21). It really explains how I feel about the book in general. I was very confused reading it, and most of what he said I just downright didn't understand. I was confused on what was happening, on who was who, and even his descriptions in this book were confusing to envision.
  One part I really like about this book, however, was when Misty explained how she felt about a situation. Instead of coming out and just saying, "I'm feeling really betrayed right now," Misty would say things like "Just for the record, the weather today is partly suspicious with chances of betrayal" (Palahniuk 725). I think this is very unique and clever, and it really portrays Palahniuk's strange mind and clever way of thinking.
  Although I didn't really understand the book, it wasn't too terrible. Once I got past the sting of the original dullness, it became a pretty good story. It has a pretty clever and original plot, and the characters are pretty relatable. Misty, the "author", has a lot of problems that she doesn't quite know how to deal with, so she turns to drinking and complaining. She is very relatable, because she doesn't ever solve her problems completely, and her main way of dealing with things is to write them out in her diary. Most of us don't do much to solve our problems either, other than complaining.
  There were a few really neat things that I noticed as I was reading that really show how clever Palahniuk really is. The most notable is the name of the island, Waytansea. As I was reading, I just kind of skipped over this and never thought of how it was said. But when I was looking back at important parts, I was trying to spell it, and I ended up sounding it out. It's already spelled out, though. Way-Tan-Sea. Say it out loud: "Wait and See". I think Palahnuik did this because Misty was never quite sure what was going to happen to her, in fact, none of the island inhabitants knew exactly what was going to happen, so they all just had to "wait and see". It also goes along with how I was feeling about the book in the beginning. Palahniuk knew that it started off dull, but he let you know that all you had to do was put a little time into it, and it would become something spectacular. Everyone just needs to "wait and see".