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A review by b4gack
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk

challenging
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
After the dizzying first tale, I kind of dragged myself through this absurdly dark, gross, and somewhat uneven book. It was one of the hardest hard reads I’ve had. Just completely depraved in a way that’s not entertaining and tenuously artistic. Some of the stories are thrilling and compelling. Others feel plain-old vulgar and boring. The interspersed Writer’s Workshop sections were sometimes too misery porn to be engaging. It’s cool that they use a first-person POV. Anyhow, 60% of the way through this I started something else, figuring there was no shot I’d get to the end. I picked at it for another month or so between other things. What finally got me over the finish line, surprisingly, was that I felt like I needed a palette cleanser from the heart wrenching first chunk of Crying in H-Mart. 
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