Doomed Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
B00EKQKYX8 | Format: EPUB
Doomed Description
Madison Spencer, the liveliest, snarkiest dead girl in the universe, continues the adventures in the afterlife begun in Damned. Having somewhat reluctantly escaped from hell, she now wanders the purgatory that is Earth as a ghostly spirit, seeking her do-gooding celebrity parents, fighting the malign control of Satan, recounting the disgracefully funny encounter with her grandfather in a fetid highway rest stop in upstate New York when she - oh, never mind - and climaxing in a rendezvous with destiny on the new, totally plastic continent in the Pacific called, not at all accidentally, Madlantis.
Dante Alighieri, watch your back. Chuck Palahniuk is gaining on you.
- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 9 hours and 35 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
- Audible.com Release Date: October 8, 2013
- Whispersync for Voice: Ready
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00EKQKYX8
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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