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3.4 AVERAGE
3.4 AVERAGE
I think about this book 50% of the times I get into a pool
Probabilmente non è stato il libro migliore per approcciarmi a Palahniuk. Disgusto a parte, trovo che alcune storie siano semplicemente inconcludenti, senza una morale o una spiegazione al perché quel particolare personaggio si sia ritrovato a fuggire per rifugiarsi al ritiro per scrittori. Riconosco il significato generale del romanzo e ciò che vuole trasmettere, ma le assurdità raccontate e un debole filo conduttore mi hanno impedito di prenderlo sul serio. Alla fine delle quattrocento pagine tutto ciò che mi è rimasto di questa lettura è stata una grande confusione e un pizzico di repulsione.
Voglio dare a Palahniuk un'altra possibilità e spero vada meglio, ma se dovessi giudicare solo da questo libro probabilmente non mi azzarderei mai più a leggere qualcosa di suo.
Voglio dare a Palahniuk un'altra possibilità e spero vada meglio, ma se dovessi giudicare solo da questo libro probabilmente non mi azzarderei mai più a leggere qualcosa di suo.
DNF'ed at the first writer's story. I should've DNFed sooner given one female character's description is only how big her breasts are and a character remarks that Anne Frank didn't have it so bad…
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Sexism, Violence, Injury/Injury detail
3.5 stars - I had a lot of fun reading this book. Palahniuk's work has become a bit of a guilty pleasure for me. Not too much substance, but the violence and gore is entertaining.
Haunted essentially follows a group of people who go on a three month writer's retreat. During this retreat, they're supposed to spend months perfecting their own short stories. The book is set up to be a chapter of plot, a poem about one of the writers, and then that writer's story. It's a pretty interesting idea, but it falls flat when you realize that each story is written in Palahniuk's easily recognizable voice.
This book is a lot better if you know that it was originally meant to be a collection of short stories. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this book came to be when Palahniuk wanted to publish a book of short stories, but his publisher said that short story collections don't sell as well as novels. So, in an attempt to get his stories published, Palahniuk constructed a narrative around the stories he had already written. This is a pretty cool idea, and I think knowing this beforehand changed my expectations of the book.
Like I said, I had a lot of fun reading this, and if you're a Palahniuk fan I'd recommend checking it out. My favorite short stories are probably Speaking Bitterness and Something's Got to Give. I also thought Mrs. Clark's storyline was interesting.
Haunted essentially follows a group of people who go on a three month writer's retreat. During this retreat, they're supposed to spend months perfecting their own short stories. The book is set up to be a chapter of plot, a poem about one of the writers, and then that writer's story. It's a pretty interesting idea, but it falls flat when you realize that each story is written in Palahniuk's easily recognizable voice.
This book is a lot better if you know that it was originally meant to be a collection of short stories. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this book came to be when Palahniuk wanted to publish a book of short stories, but his publisher said that short story collections don't sell as well as novels. So, in an attempt to get his stories published, Palahniuk constructed a narrative around the stories he had already written. This is a pretty cool idea, and I think knowing this beforehand changed my expectations of the book.
Like I said, I had a lot of fun reading this, and if you're a Palahniuk fan I'd recommend checking it out. My favorite short stories are probably Speaking Bitterness and Something's Got to Give. I also thought Mrs. Clark's storyline was interesting.
This book was incredibly dark and disturbing but written well.
very very good but kinda hard to read so not for beginner readers/ people who don’t read that much/ and plus it’s disturbing so if u don’t like that kinda stuff then stay farrrr away.
I was about halfway through this terrifying book before I realized the cover glows in the dark. Rolled over in the middle of the night and nearly sh*t the bed.
I finished it just to finish it; nothing really kept me wanting to know what was going to come next.