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3.23 AVERAGE
3.23 AVERAGE
I don't feel like like Chuck has written a 'great' book since Rant. Style over substance has become more apparent in his last 5 books or so. Damned is less guilty of this trend but it still dips into the 'this is how the narrator writes, isn't it cute and fun'?
Who am I kidding? I'll still read Doomed.
Who am I kidding? I'll still read Doomed.
I live for this kind of shit. Normal books don’t satisfy my needs for stuff like this. If you don’t like this kind of stuff, I respect your opinion, but personally, I LIVE FOR THIS SHIT.
Smart, funny and clever. A bit repetitive at times, and at 250 pages, it's probably about 15 percent longer than it needed to be. A good, quick read.
dark
funny
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Try again later... not in the the right mindset
As a Reader McReadkins, I have experienced thousands of novels, and so I have come to believe “the sweetest fruit has not yet hit the ground.” Meaning: I’m always expecting that the best books are ones I haven’t yet read… they may even be the ones not yet written. So I’m always super-excited when I start a new book, so full of promise. Also, I frequently find myself expecting an author to walk near the path he or she walked before, because so many of them do. It’s exactly why many of my reviews end with words like “and so, dear reader, I vow to venture forth to my local library this very minute – even if it means a journey across hell’s own river of scalding blood – and reserve other books by this wonderful author person.” Sometimes that prejudices me against an author, too: “Ewww! No more novels from Writer vonYuckWrite.”
Fight Club is the only other book I have read by Chuck Palahniuk, so I really wasn’t expecting such a fantasy adventure tale here. The epic quest of a erudite young girl (13 years old, which is the most powerful and awkward age to ever live or die through) was not my expectation because I didn’t trouble myself to read any synopsis of the book. (Yes, I know what “eurudite” means. I may be lazy enough to read books without first reading *about* them, but I did, at one point, stuff a useful brain into my cranium.) I’ve been very pleased with this tale of the adventures of a dead girl as she explains about her life – or, death I guess – in hell and her efforts to make friends and improve the place.
I think my favorite passages, however, are the ones where she talks about how the living are prejudiced against the dead, and how none of us living folks remember that death is inevitable. We fool ourselves that there is no death coming for us, too, as long as we include proper bran and aerobics in our lives. And she keeps poking at us with a reminder.
Even if the words were overly repetitive at times, I was favorably impressed with this novel and all its Breakfast Club references. Right now I’m on the Internet reserving a Jet Ski so I can cross the lake of tepid bile and get myself to the library posthaste so I can enjoy another book by this fine author.
Fight Club is the only other book I have read by Chuck Palahniuk, so I really wasn’t expecting such a fantasy adventure tale here. The epic quest of a erudite young girl (13 years old, which is the most powerful and awkward age to ever live or die through) was not my expectation because I didn’t trouble myself to read any synopsis of the book. (Yes, I know what “eurudite” means. I may be lazy enough to read books without first reading *about* them, but I did, at one point, stuff a useful brain into my cranium.) I’ve been very pleased with this tale of the adventures of a dead girl as she explains about her life – or, death I guess – in hell and her efforts to make friends and improve the place.
I think my favorite passages, however, are the ones where she talks about how the living are prejudiced against the dead, and how none of us living folks remember that death is inevitable. We fool ourselves that there is no death coming for us, too, as long as we include proper bran and aerobics in our lives. And she keeps poking at us with a reminder.
Even if the words were overly repetitive at times, I was favorably impressed with this novel and all its Breakfast Club references. Right now I’m on the Internet reserving a Jet Ski so I can cross the lake of tepid bile and get myself to the library posthaste so I can enjoy another book by this fine author.
adventurous
dark
funny
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Incredibly bizarre book where "Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret" meets "The Breakfast Club" meets all the poor little rich girl books ever written, and of course, they're in Hell. That being said, it was quite entertaining, with young Madison (who died trying to impress the latest third-world adoptee of her supercouple celebrity parents) trying to find her way as she adjusts to her new existence.
Ugh, I hate 'to be continued' endings!!! I was kind of ambivalent about this book at first - it didn't really seem to be going anywhere for maybe even the first half. But I got more into the story as the book went on, and by the end I was really wanting to see what would happen next, which is why the 'to be continued' bit irks me. Hopefully it won't be too long before the next book comes out! At least there's reason to believe that there actually WILL be a sequel.
My fifth and final Palahniuk book. I haven't liked a single one thus far, including Fight Club (despite the movie being one of my all time favorites.) So I'm good. If you like gross out humor and absurdity for the sake of itself, have fun. For me, getting through this was a chore.