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Do you remember that one classmate you had that would try so hard to shock you by telling you his shitty made up stories that were for some reason always filled with gore and sex? Yeah, Chuck Palahnuik is pretty much that angsty 13-year-old judging by this book, except that he's actually an adult and not a child. That being said, I don't see why anyone above the age of 13 can like this for reasons other than "it's gross dude".
I don't like calling books before I've finished them but it's a rare occasion that a book is so obviously shit that after reading 100 pages you know what the rest 250 will be. In that regard, Chuck Palahniuk really has written a masterpiece with his "Haunted", a masterpiece of shittiness.
I really don't have to explain myself, I'm not against grotesque or edgy themes but when the grotesque parts are solely there for the shock value and the edgy themes are shoved down your throat then no thank you. The whole gimmick of the short stories being tied together with an over-arching story is interesting yet soo poorly fucking done that it's not even funny. A story is supposed to at least interest you and I'm personally more interested in the day-to-day lives of chipmunks than in this drivel. There are some boring and shitty poems before some of the stories but the stories are the main shining point of this book, a shining point of shit. The first story, "Guts", is what you could expect a 13-year-old to write. It's grotesqueness because "Lol it's gross". That's pretty much the theme of this whole book, there's no substance, only Chuck Palahniuk describing grotesque events with no finesse at all. Honestly, I like Fight Club as a movie, maybe I'll enjoy it as a book but "Haunted"... well, let's just say I've seen /b/ threads with more literary merit than this boring trainwreck, and that's really saying something.
I don't like calling books before I've finished them but it's a rare occasion that a book is so obviously shit that after reading 100 pages you know what the rest 250 will be. In that regard, Chuck Palahniuk really has written a masterpiece with his "Haunted", a masterpiece of shittiness.
I really don't have to explain myself, I'm not against grotesque or edgy themes but when the grotesque parts are solely there for the shock value and the edgy themes are shoved down your throat then no thank you. The whole gimmick of the short stories being tied together with an over-arching story is interesting yet soo poorly fucking done that it's not even funny. A story is supposed to at least interest you and I'm personally more interested in the day-to-day lives of chipmunks than in this drivel. There are some boring and shitty poems before some of the stories but the stories are the main shining point of this book, a shining point of shit. The first story, "Guts", is what you could expect a 13-year-old to write. It's grotesqueness because "Lol it's gross". That's pretty much the theme of this whole book, there's no substance, only Chuck Palahniuk describing grotesque events with no finesse at all. Honestly, I like Fight Club as a movie, maybe I'll enjoy it as a book but "Haunted"... well, let's just say I've seen /b/ threads with more literary merit than this boring trainwreck, and that's really saying something.