Instead, try Invisible Monsters.Ĭurrently Reading: Moments With Baxterby Melissa Joseph. If you have not read any of his books before though, I would not recommend starting with this one. If you are already a fan of Palahniuk, then I’d say: read it. I must admit, I was a little bit disappointed with this one, though I did enjoy it for the most part.Īll in all, I’d say be prepared for a disturbing read! It is not recommended for the faint of heart. I adore his novel Invisible Monsters, and would highly recommend checking that one out if you are interested in his work. If you have not read Palahniuk before, I wouldn’t recommend this being your first. This book is intense and disturbing, but an interesting read. While the short stories were fascinating (I particularly enjoyed “The Nightmare Box”), it disrupted the flow of the main story. It wasn’t as gripping as some of his others, and that may be a result of the character’s short stories intersplicing so often into the main story. However, something about this book just didn’t completely click with me. With that said, I think the format of the book was interesting and the writing was brilliant. It is provocative, bizarre and unusual, as Palahniuk almost always is. The book is shocking, grotesque, and extremely unique. The premise of this story is absolutely fascinating.
They appear to be locked up and victimized, but we soon discover they are really prisoners of themselves. They ruin the food and break the heater, all in hopes of being discovered by the outside world, and then becoming famous by having movies and shows created about their experience. Some of them begin dying, and cutting off their own fingers and toes. All of these stories are disturbing and unusual, brilliant and shocking.Īs for the main story… as time goes on, the people are increasingly growing more disturbed and insane. Whittier.Įach chapter of this story is followed by a free verse poem about one of the people, then some sort of story about their life that they are telling the rest of the group. None of the characters knew what to expect, they just boarded a bus and wound up at an old abandoned theater, at this retreat, run by an elderly man named Mr. The larger story is this: a group of people responded to an ad for a “writer’s retreat” in which they would abandon their lives for three months and create their masterpiece. The book is made up of 23 short stories inside of one larger story.
Haunted is quite complex, so I’ll do my best to describe it. I think Palahniuk is completely brilliant and I very much admire him I’m not completely sure how I feel about this one though.
This book is certainly both of those things. Last night I finished up Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk, who is known for his offbeat and sometimes disturbing stories.
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