Damned, Chuck Palahniuk
Damned, Chuck Palahniuk
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Damned

Author: Chuck Palahniuk

Narrator: Tai Sammons

Unabridged: 7 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/18/2011

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

Are you there, Satan? Its me, Madison, declares the whiptongued thirteenyearold narrator of Damned, Chuck Palahniuks subversive new work of fiction. The daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, while her parents are off touting their new projects and adopting more orphans. She dies over the holiday of a marijuana overdoseand the next thing she knows, shes in Hell. Madison shares her cell with a motley crew of young sinners that is almost too good to be true: a cheerleader, a jock, a nerd, and a punk rocker, united by fate to form the sixfeetunder version of everyones favorite detention movie. Madison and her pals trek across the Dandruff Desert and climb the treacherous Mountain of Toenail Clippings to confront Satan in his citadel. All the popcorn balls and wax lips that serve as the currency of Hell wont buy them off. This is the afterlife as only Chuck Palahniuk could imagine it: a twisted inferno where The English Patient plays on endless repeat, roaming demons devour sinners limb by limb, and the damned interrupt your dinner from their sweltering call center to hardsell you Hell. He makes eternal torment, well, simply divine.

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