Damned

Name: Damned
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
ISBN: 9781705041215

Author: Chuck Palahniuk

Narrator: Sophie Amoss

Unabridged: 7 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/12/2021

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

From the author of Fight Club, comes a dark, hilarious, and brilliant satire about adolescence, Hell, and the Devil.

Madison is the thirteen-year-old daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire. Abandoned at her Swiss boarding school for Christmas, she dies over the holiday, presumably of a marijuana overdose. The last thing she remembers is getting into a town car and falling asleep. Then she’s waking up in Hell. Literally.

Madison soon finds herself sharing a cell with a motley crew of young sinners: a cheerleader, a jock, a nerd, and a punk rocker, all united by their doomed fate, like a Breakfast Club of the damned. Together they form an odd coalition and march across the unspeakable landscape of Hell—full of used diapers, dandruff, WiFi blackout spots, evil historical figures, and one horrific call center—to confront the Devil himself.

“Brilliant. … Palahniuk’s descriptions of hell are inspired, crafted with great comic flair. … A winning and funny book.”—The Washington Post

About Chuck Palahniuk

Chuck Palahniuk worked as a diesel mechanic for a trucking company before he became an author. He has published a number of novels, including Invisible Monsters, Survivor, Choke, and Fight Club, which was made into a movie directed by David Fincher. He also wrote the nonfiction works Fugitives and Refugees and Stranger Than Fiction. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Baba on January 26, 2022

This fantasy horror (or maybe horror fantasy?), is a Palahniuk masterclass. Thirteen year old Madison, daughter of mega celebrity parents finds herself dead and consigned to Hell! Wow now that an interesting kick-off point; that notwithstanding, Madison goes on a journey, to, dare I say it, find her......more

Goodreads review by Kemper on January 29, 2012

If a thirteen year old dead girl in Hell stops a rampaging Godzilla-sized demon by sexually pleasuring it, would you consider that necrophilia, bestiality or kiddie porn? I’m not sure either, but these are the kind of questions that can come up when you read a Chuck Palahniuk novel. Madison is the v......more

Goodreads review by Lena on February 03, 2024

I don't know why Palahniuk hates The English Patient so much, but all this mentions of it being used as a torture tool in hell made me want to rewatch it - I don't remember this movie being that bad 😂 But seriously, it was very satiric, ironic, sarcastic etc, but I couldn't appreciate it due to disgu......more

Goodreads review by Megs ♥ on February 17, 2012

Damned is another book I loved from Chuck Palahniuk. Each chapter starts: “Are you there, Satan? It’s me, Madison,” by a girl so emotionally needy she craves attention from the devil himself. Madison is thirteen, and very smart. She's the daughter of a narcissistic actress, and a billionaire father.......more

Goodreads review by David on December 28, 2015

Palahniuk shows more sympathy for the Devil than for liberals in this book. Which is not to say that this reads like an axe-grinding conservative polemic (I have no idea what Palahniuk's politics are), but the targets of his satire in Damned are Hell and Hollywood, and he makes Hell seem like the le......more