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Haunted

By Chuck Palahniuk

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| Hardcover | 9780385509480

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"Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: Twenty-three of them, to be precise. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you'll ever encounter--sometimes all at once. They are told by people who have answered an ad headlined "Writers' RetreContinue

"Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: Twenty-three of them, to be precise. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you'll ever encounter--sometimes all at once. They are told by people who have answered an ad headlined "Writers' Retreat: Abandon Your Life for Three Months," and who are led to believe that here they will leave behind all the distractions of "real life" that are keeping them from creating the masterpiece that is in them. But "here" turns out to be a cavernous and ornate old theater where they are utterly isolated from the outside world--and where heat and power and, most important, food are in increasingly short supply. And the more desperate the circumstances become, the more extreme the stories they tell--and the more devious their machinations become to make themselves the hero of the inevitable play/movie/nonfiction blockbuster that will surely be made from their plight.
"Haunted is on one level a satire of reality television--"The Real World meets "Alive. It draws from a great literary tradition--"The Canterbury Tales, "The Decameron, the English storytellers in the Villa Diodati who produced, among other works, "Frankenstein--to tell an utterly contemporary tale of people desperate that their story be told at any cost. Appallingly entertaining, "Haunted is Chuck Palahniuk at his finest--which means his most extreme and his most provocative. [예스24 제공]

Critics

  • Beating a retreat

    Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk (404pp, Jonathan Cape, £12.99) After earlier novels such as Fight Club and Diary, it doesn't seem likely that anyone would pick up a book by Chuck Palahniuk incautiously, but even so the incautious should be warned. This mo ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Haunted By Chuck Palahniuk

    Evil lurks in Palahniuk's story collectionThe buzz about Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk's new collection of linked short stories, Haunted, is the type that will either scare you off immediately or have you scratching at bookshop doors to get in th ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Wed, 15 Sep 2010

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  • 2 people find this helpful

    Much more than you would expect

    While Palahniuk's books typically contain a lot more than meets the eye, I found this to be especially true of Haunted. While some of the stories may shock you (or even cause you to feel a little lightheaded, nauseous, or faint--believe me when I say you should always sit down while reading this boo ... (continue)

    While Palahniuk's books typically contain a lot more than meets the eye, I found this to be especially true of Haunted. While some of the stories may shock you (or even cause you to feel a little lightheaded, nauseous, or faint--believe me when I say you should always sit down while reading this book), the brutal and gruesome nature of many of them explores human identity and nature, our presumptions about and expectations of life and what lies ahead, and above all, our desperate and unspoken desire for pain and suffering and a villain upon which to blame it. Deftly written, in true Palahniuk fashion.

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    Chezmerelda said on Aug 3, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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    Funny, disgusting, thought-provoking - Palahniuk is a twisted genius!

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    Jon Randy said on Jul 19, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • Chuck Palahniuk doesn't try to provide just a set of haunting stories here but a method of haunting you, with a series of disturbing tales which will always come back to get you at horrifying points of time. Weaving together each of these stories, is an overall plot about a group of writers trapped ... (continue)

    Chuck Palahniuk doesn't try to provide just a set of haunting stories here but a method of haunting you, with a series of disturbing tales which will always come back to get you at horrifying points of time. Weaving together each of these stories, is an overall plot about a group of writers trapped in a retreat. This is definitely not recommend for anyone of a weak disposition, but if you're made of sterner stuff, enjoy! I certainly did.

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    AkiraNone said on Mar 3, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • Simultaneously disturbing and tantalizing, Palahniuk creates characters that make you cringe and wonder at their disturbing lives.

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    oleander said on Mar 2, 2011 | Add your feedback

  • Homo Homini Lupus

    "Man is a wolf to [his fellow] man", the frame story tells this, that we're the only villains in our story, although we desperately try to stand as the victimes and heroes...
    I enjoyed all short stories in this book, as the cover says "by turns nauseating, darkly funny and brutally graphic", but it ... (continue)

    "Man is a wolf to [his fellow] man", the frame story tells this, that we're the only villains in our story, although we desperately try to stand as the victimes and heroes...
    I enjoyed all short stories in this book, as the cover says "by turns nauseating, darkly funny and brutally graphic", but it still took me a month to get through the entire book, meaning that I was not honestly looking forward to read more from it.

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    Micol said on Jan 25, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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