Palahniuk Takes Us to Hell

Nephele · Sun Nov 13, 2011 5:04 am

For those familiar with Chuck Palahniuk's novels (probably Fight Club will be familiar to most people, if not through the novel then through the movie), Palahniuk has written a new one which sounds especially appealing to goth tastes.

Described as "a very funny coming-of-age (after-you’re-dead) novel," the title of the book is Damned, and here is a brief except of a description, from The Washington Post:

Quote:

Madison [the 13-year-old female protagonist who has probably died of a drug overdose] wakes in a moldy cell surrounded by fetid candy (do not eat the gummy bears), stalked by giant demons looking to chew off skulls (they grow back, painfully) and introduced to a crew of teen-movie archetype hell-mates ready to help Maddie negotiate seas of insects, fields of nail clippings and broken glass, and a dandruff desert.

But that’s merely the terrain. The details are truly hellish: The only movies to ever play in Hades are “The English Patient” and “The Piano.” Internet is dial-up. Printers are all dot-matrix. There are only two jobs: Internet porn and those telephone solicitors who call during dinnertime. The smell, while awful, is “nowhere near as bad as Naples in the summertime during a garbage strike.”

Full article here.

I'm a huge Palahniuk fan, so I'll be reading this one. (My favorite Palahniuk novel was Choke).

-- Nephele

Palahniuk Takes Us to Hell

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