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...
I am so confused as to how to rate this book. It was at turns fascinating, disgusting, and really really annoying. But I confess, in the 4 days since I finished it, I can't stop thinking about it. That alone makes it worth the 3 star rating.
Why can't I just like Chuck Palahniuk? This was okay, but even though the ending was supposed to leave me hanging, I just said "Eh, that's done" and moved on. I don't like his style, his stories or even his book covers.Main thing I was annoyed by in this book: the way the main character had to add...
As I read this novel, I couldn’t help but compare it to my experience reading Lullaby a few summers ago. Lullaby was my first Palahniuk novel and I remember sitting poolside with my paperback and feeling that thrilling buzz of reading something new and different. Lullaby was grotesque and absurd, bu...
I tried hard to like this book, I really did. I loved the Fight Club. I thought it was brilliant. And while this book proved a clever idea, I couldn’t bring myself to love (or even hate) Madison (the tale’s hero). And that is where the story fails for me. It’s an interesting novel to read but I...
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