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Doomed
Written by Chuck Palahniuk
Narrated by Sophie Amoss
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About this audiobook
Welcome to Purgatory. Chuck Palahniuk style.
After a botched Halloween ritual, Madison Spencer, the snarkiest dead girl in the universe, finds herself trapped in Purgatory, otherwise known as Earth. The upside: she is no longer subject to physical limitations (she can pass through doors and walls). The downside: well, she’s still dead.
Her first stop is her parents’ luxurious apartment, where she runs into her grandmother’s ghost. For Madison, the encounter triggers memories of the awful summer she spent upstate. As she revisits the painful truth of what transpired over those months, her saga of eternal damnation takes
on a new and sinister meaning. And as it turns out, Madison and her parents have always been key elements of Satan’s master plan—Doomsday.
“With his love of contemporary fairy tales that are gritty and dirty rather than pretty, Palahniuk is the likeliest inheritor of Vonnegut’s place in American writing.”—San Francisco Chronicle
After a botched Halloween ritual, Madison Spencer, the snarkiest dead girl in the universe, finds herself trapped in Purgatory, otherwise known as Earth. The upside: she is no longer subject to physical limitations (she can pass through doors and walls). The downside: well, she’s still dead.
Her first stop is her parents’ luxurious apartment, where she runs into her grandmother’s ghost. For Madison, the encounter triggers memories of the awful summer she spent upstate. As she revisits the painful truth of what transpired over those months, her saga of eternal damnation takes
on a new and sinister meaning. And as it turns out, Madison and her parents have always been key elements of Satan’s master plan—Doomsday.
“With his love of contemporary fairy tales that are gritty and dirty rather than pretty, Palahniuk is the likeliest inheritor of Vonnegut’s place in American writing.”—San Francisco Chronicle
Author
Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk's novels are the bestselling Fight Club, which was made into a film by director David Fincher, Diary, Lullaby, Survivor, Haunted, and Invisible Monsters. Portions of Choke have appeared in Playboy, and Palahniuk's nonfiction work has been published by Gear, Black Book, The Stranger, and the Los Angeles Times. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Normally love palahniuk, but this one felt forced and very surface level
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Madison is back and this time she's a ghost. She's got unfinished business on earth now and she's worried about her do-gooder parents who seem intent on sending the whole world to hell. They started a cult in Madison's name and even built a massive island out of discard plastic refuse in the middle of the Pacific ocean. If our intrepid heroine isn't timely about her return it could, in fact, be Armageddon. This book was pretty entertaining, but for a long-time reader of Palahniuk like myself, it all sounds a bit familiar. I'm not sure if he's intentionally repeating himself or just fleshing out ideas he's had before, but this book seemed to lack a certain originality. Still, it's not as bad as some of his other later novels. I enjoyed this bizarre tale and our juvenile narrator. I'm even looking forward to the next one. Curious to see where it all goes.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I don't know if the narrator mispronounced words because she was trying to make the point that Madison thinks she is smarter than she really is, or if she just didn't bother to check words she didn't know.
The story sucked. The characters were all unsympathetic. And it isn't finished. This is part of a series and there is more to come of this torture porn grotesquery. I'm sorry I wasted time and money on it. I'm done with this author. - Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Chuck, I love ya, but I wish I could Ctrl Alt Unread this one.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5At times deeply disturbing and discomfitting, at others a cynical whirlwind of teen angst. While Palahniuk is compared to Vonegut, Ifind he reminds me much more of a darker Tom Robbins. Very well written, beautifully paced, but be prepared for moments that make your skin crawl.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The dead young girl continues to describe her experiences in a blog/diary form. The dead girl has accidentally started a religion as a joke and is trying to correct this error.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I much preferred Damned. I didn't care for the set up of this, of how all the chapters with Madison started off as "tweets" Also, the other chapters, those dealing with the "mock" Madison, I found those hard to read, they seemed to just run together. Here's hoping it all comes together in the final installment.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Chuck Palahniuk has done it again. I didn't want this book to end, and can't wait for the next one! As far as the writing goes, Chuck is a walking Master Class in the art of voice. There are so many authors out now where you could rip a page out of one of their books and you would have no idea who wrote it. Not with Chuck. His writing is so distinctive you could tell Chuck's work down to the paragraph. And I think that's a huge accomplishment. Madison Spencer had me laughing out loud through the entire book.
Bravo, Mr. Palahniuk. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Having read Palahniuk before, I was eager to consume more of his works. This one did not fail me either. I just can't express enough how much I love his bleak view of the world. His dark, yet humorous, outlook on capitalism, religion, and pretty much everything else in the Western World makes me roll with laughter. Also, his disgusting descriptions of events in his works satiate my desire for the horror genre. Doomed does all of these things...and leaves me wanting nothing but more. Thank goodness this is only part two in a series!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The second book in Palahniuk's Damned trilogy. I actually liked it more than Damned; that one was crazier and more shamelessly grotesque, with Madison traversing Hell with her new friends, whereas in this one she's stuck in Purgatory (drifting around on Earth as a ghost) watching the consequences of her accidental phone call to her grieving parents in the first novel. It was still mad, and occasionally disjointed, but it felt a bit more grounded than the last book, which helped.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Doomed continues a few months after the events of Damned with 13 year old chubby Madison Spencer breaking her curfew on Halloween night and having to spend the whole year on Earth. Doomed delves more into Madison's backstory, mostly of her eleventh year. That's when she was banished to stay with her grandparents after creeping her parents out with her fake diary entries of gross bestiality.
In the present, Madison discovers there is a new religion throughout the world: Boorism. People can be just as crude, rude, and downright nasty to one another on the mistaken belief that they will be going to heaven. People everywhere are shouting "Hail Maddy!" Boorism was started by her parents because of a well-intentioned but poorly executed attempt to make hercparents feel better about Madison's death. Also, because she wanted them to be damned together.
While all of this is happening, The Devil is taunting her and the people she thought were her friends seem to be only cogs in the Hell machine. But Madison discovers she might hold a bigger purpose than just being The Devil's puppet.
I liked Doomed more than Damned but only by a smidge. I enjoyed the backstory, really how everything was interconnected and that it seemed that Madison's grandmother, mother, and herself had no free will. Everything was a machination from Hell. That was interesting because nothing happened by coincidence.
I am so glad Palahniuk wasn't as gross and disgusting as he was in Damned. I was very grateful for that. I mean the whole incident with the grandfather in the bathroom was ridiculous beyond belief and gross but I could deal.
Madison got annoying as time went on. She seemed spoiled and I grew tired of her and ctrl-alt-insert random emotion here. I am not sure if I'm going to like the Endgame to this trilogy. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Plot: a young girl narrates from beyond the grave via the internet while unintentionally starting a cult that results in most of humanity damned to hell and nearly causing Armageddon.This is not a review that should reflect on the author or his other books, as I am a huge fan of his. That being said, this was not my favorite book. The girl, writing about her life from ages 11-13, from the view point of a 13 year old, was just not a believable character for me. I understand she was raised in Swiss boarding schools, loved to read, and was well traveled, but I still felt some of it was a stretch, vocabulary and knowledge- wise. A part I had a big problem with was a bathroom scene in which a man stuck his penis through a glory hole and she basically smashed it off with a book. Here were my problems with that scene:-she was raised by parents who were avid nudists, yet failed to recognize a penis and mistook it for dog crap (?)-the belt buckle, boots, and truck were well described, yet she failed to recognize the man as her grandfather who she was living with at the timeAfter trying to get over that, which was referenced many times as a pretty integral scene, there was the ending. It was very disappointing, in my opinion. It was left open as "The End?" but if there was a sequel, I don't think I would read it. That being said, Invisible Monsters was a great read, and Choke was also very enjoyable! So, if this is your first time reading Chuck, I would suggest picking another. If not, go ahead and give it a try. If you already love him, it won't keep you from moving on to the next of his books :)