Doomed Author: Chuck Palahniuk | Language: English | ISBN:
B00CCPIJ6I | Format: PDF
Doomed Description
Madison Spencer, the liveliest and snarkiest dead girl in the universe, continues the afterlife adventure begun in Chuck Palahniuk’s bestseller Damned. Just as that novel brought us a brilliant Hell that only he could imagine, Doomed is a dark and twisted apocalyptic vision from this provocative storyteller.The bestselling
Damned chronicled Madison’s journey across the unspeakable (and
reallygross) landscape of the afterlife to confront the Devil himself. But her story isn’t over yet. In a series of electronic dispatches from the Great Beyond,
Doomed describes the ultimate showdown between Good and Evil.
After a Halloween ritual gone awry, Madison finds herself trapped in Purgatory—or, as mortals like you and I know it, Earth. She can see and hear every detail of the world she left behind, yet she’s invisible to everyone who’s still alive. Not only do people look right through her, they
walk right through her as well. The upside is that, no longer subject to physical limitations, she can pass through doors and walls. Her first stop is her parents’ luxurious apartment, where she encounters the ghost of her long-deceased grandmother. For Madison, the encounter triggers memories of the awful summer she spent upstate with Nana Minnie and her grandfather, Papadaddy. As she revisits the painful truth of what transpired over those months (including a disturbing and finally fatal meeting in a rest stop’s fetid men’s room, in which . . . well, never mind), her saga of eternal damnation takes on a new and sinister meaning. Satan has had Madison in his sights from the very beginning: through her and her narcissistic celebrity parents, he plans to engineer an era of eternal damnation. For
everyone.
Once again, our unconventional but plucky heroine must face her fears and gather her wits for the battle of a lifetime. Dante Alighieri, watch your back; Chuck Palahniuk is gaining on you.
- File Size: 1186 KB
- Print Length: 338 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0385677243
- Publisher: Doubleday (October 8, 2013)
- Sold by: Random House LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00CCPIJ6I
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
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I loved Damned. I read it in three days. Each and every scene of Palahniuk's Hell kept me turning pages, and Madison, although quirky, turned out to be a character that I enjoyed and even semi-cared about.
Now, take everything there is to love about Damned, and burn it.
In Damend, Chuck pushed the narrative to its absolute limit. The thirteen year old girl Madison was very clever, very intelligent, but she was still a thirteen year old girl. She narrated the story like a spoiled thirteen year old girl, had sexual tension like a thirteen year old girl, even told embarassing stories like a thirteen year old girl. She was, for lack of a better word, semi-believable.
In Doomed, Chuck pushes the narrative over the edge. Madison no longer narrates like a thirteen year old girl. Instead, she feels like a female Chuck Palahniuk standing on a soap box, pulling out all his tricks in his literary bag. The narrative is so bogged down in B.S. that it's unbearable to read. And, It's also very, very, very, very, very repetitive.
In Damned, Chuck made the story exciting with imagery, monsters, and clever parallels between the living and the dead. The comedy was top notch. Down and dirty, but funny.
In Doomed, Chuck traps Madison back on earth, and fills the pages with B.S. back story that only has a few interesting paragraphs. The comedy is sub-par, and in need of a good swift kick in the pants.
Honestly, I expected way more from Palahniuk than this heeping pile of useless paper. It seems most of his novels are very entertaining to read, and rarely do I find myself dreading to finish them. Doomed, however, falls into the latter category. As of right now I'm 155 pages in and can't wait for this to be over.
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