Damned
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780385671101 (0385671105)
ASIN: 0385671105
Publish date: 2011-10-18
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Dear God, I want to go to Hell, ‘kay? Thanks bunches! Damned is the first book I’ve enjoyed from Palahniuk since… Diary, I think. His first four or five novels were fantastic, and then we received such disasters as Tell Tale, Snuff, and Pygmy (The latter was written entirely in phonetic English....
These opening lines sold me on Damned: “If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.” Damned combines two books that I love: American Gods and Fight Club. One book shows how qu...
Madison Spencer is 13, dead, in Hell and a basket case. She’s surrounded by a brain, an athlete, a princess and a criminal. Sound familiar? Yeah, it’s the “Damned” version of The Breakfast Club. Written as a series of “Are you there Satan? It’s me, Maddy” diary-type entries, once again I fell ha...
Are you there, Chuck Palahniuk? It's me, Steve. I just finished reading Damned, and I've got to tell you, it was terrible. This is the third novel of yours that I've gone through, and I'm starting to get the feeling that whatever spark of brilliance I saw in Fight Club was not presaging a coming ...
Thirteen-year-old Madison finds herself in hell after dying from a "marijuana overdose." But really, Chuck P's version of hell isn't so bad. Instead of eternal torture it's more like eternal mild irritation, but this even can be overcome with the right attitude.There's nothing shocking in Damned. Th...
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