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Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk

20 reviews

penne_lane's review

challenging dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Is suffering the meaning of life? Read this book, and you still won't know the answer. But you sure will have thought about it a lot. Dark, existential, disturbing, absurdist, and extremely graphic; I actually really enjoyed this book as a whole. This is the first one of his books I've ever read. His writing style is extremely evocative, and I was hooked right from the beginning, even though the pace was fairly slow. Reading this felt like watching a giant, intricate and beautiful puzzle come together, only to realize it's an image of some guy mooning you. But in a good way? Hard to explain, but worth the experience if you can stomach it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Child death, Animal death, Rape, Violence, Toxic relationship, Gore, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Body horror, Sexual assault, Cannibalism, Adult/minor relationship, Self harm, and Confinement

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Abortion

sinisterbeard's review against another edition

dark funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

What a bunch of morons.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Classism, Genocide, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Transphobia, Vomit, Eating disorder, Mass/school shootings, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Excrement, Gaslighting, Racism, Addiction, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Violence, Abandonment, Deadnaming, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Miscarriage

Just like, all the content warnings.

mandi_lea's review

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child death, Transphobia, Torture, Death, Gore, Blood, Sexual assault, Chronic illness, Pregnancy, Self harm, Sexual violence, Classism, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Cannibalism, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Murder, Sexual content, Alcohol, Confinement, and Violence

spookycece13's review

adventurous challenging dark funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I know that a lot of people don't love this book as much as his others, but it's one of my favorites alongside Choke and Snuff. We follow 7 characters telling their stories along with the people they are, well....staying with. Things get dark and crazy very fast and there's a couple of twists that I personally didn't expect. If you're new to Chuck Palahniuk or even if you already love his writing and you like  dark, disgusting things, and commentaries on society, I highly recommend this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Body shaming, Murder, Violence, Body horror, Self harm, Confinement, Kidnapping, Torture, Cursing, Gore, and Transphobia

Moderate: Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, and Pregnancy

I was going to add pedophilia in the warnings but wasn't sure if I should so, here's a warning for possible pedophilia. In one of the stories a character buys sex dolls (not knowing that's what they were)that are supposed to look like children. They are VERY detailed and it's mentioned her coworkers use them to get off as well as put makeup, tattoos and Piercings on them. This, understandably, bothers the main character so she more or less fixes the issue. So that, my friends, is why I added the warning.

hailey_horror's review

dark funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Cannibalism, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Genocide, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Hate crime, Classism, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Body horror, Kidnapping, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Vomit, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Body shaming, Self harm, Torture, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, and Alcoholism

korolevakotykiv's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Transphobia, Body shaming, Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Cannibalism, Self harm, and Child death

gress's review

challenging dark funny mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Kidnapping, Torture, Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Abandonment, Death, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Murder, Self harm, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Animal death, Transphobia, Excrement, Miscarriage, Rape, Death of parent, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Chronic illness, Car accident, Terminal illness, Grief, and Infidelity

Entire story that misgenders a woman (whether they are trans or not is up to interpretation)

and leads to SA/rape of that woman

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franzys_whip's review

Bored. Saint Gut-Free's story was the only one that was even remotely "gut-churning," the rest of them were easily tolerated. Messed-up? Sure. But overall they weren't bad enough to keep me interested.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Death, Emotional abuse, Murder, Violence, Drug use, Gore, Blood, Classism, Excrement, Body horror, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Alcohol, Animal death, Cursing, and Gun violence

Minor: Incest

wrenjuniper's review

I think that Chuck Palahniuk reels you in with the first story and then it goes downhill from there. At first I thought it was really boring, didn't really understand where it was going, and then I got to Coras story. 
Personally, I don't think you can write about something like that for a grossed out reaction. It comes off as insensitive and slightly concerning. Gore has a limit and I think that limit is kids. Don't write about kids dude, that's super weird.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Body horror, Pedophilia, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

hunkydory's review

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Drug use, Kidnapping, Suicidal thoughts, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Violence, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Drug abuse, Sexism, Suicide, Child death, Confinement, Blood, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Medical content, Body horror, Medical trauma, Murder, Child abuse, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Adult/minor relationship, and Animal death

Moderate: Xenophobia, Pregnancy, Vomit, and Animal cruelty