Think adolescence is hell? You have no idea... Welcome to Dante's Inferno, by way of The Breakfast Club, from the mind of American fiction's most brilliant troublemaker."Death, like life, is what you make out of it." So says Madison, the whip-tongued 11-year-old narrator of Damned, Chuck Palahniuk's subversive homage to the young adult genre. Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas while her parents are off touting their new film projects and adopting more orphans. Over the holidays she dies of a marijuana overdose--and the next thing she knows, she's in Hell.This is the afterlife as only Chuck Palahniuk could imagine it: a twisted inferno inspired by both the most extreme and mundane of human evils, where The English Patient plays on repeat and roaming demons devour sinners limb by limb. However, underneath Madison's sad teenager affect there is still a child struggling to accept not only the events of her dysfunctional life, but also the truth about her death.For Madison, though, a more immediate source of comfort lies in the motley crew of young sinners she meets during her first days in Hell. With the help of Archer, Babette, Leonard, and Patterson, she learns to navigate Hell--and discovers that she'd rather be mortal and deluded and stupid with those she loves than perfect and alone.
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Damned
von Chuck Palahniuk
Think adolescence is hell? You have no idea... Welcome to Dante's Inferno, by way of The Breakfast Club, from the mind of American fiction's most brilliant troublemaker."Death, like life, is what you make out of it." So says Madison, the whip-tongued 11-year-old narrator of Damned, Chuck Palahniuk's subversive homage to the young adult genre. Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas while her parents are off touting their new film projects and adopting more orphans. Over the holidays she dies of a marijuana overdose--and the next thing she knows, she's in Hell.This is the afterlife as only Chuck Palahniuk could imagine it: a twisted inferno inspired by both the most extreme and mundane of human evils, where The English Patient plays on repeat and roaming demons devour sinners limb by limb. However, underneath Madison's sad teenager affect there is still a child struggling to accept not only the events of her dysfunctional life, but also the truth about her death.For Madison, though, a more immediate source of comfort lies in the motley crew of young sinners she meets during her first days in Hell. With the help of Archer, Babette, Leonard, and Patterson, she learns to navigate Hell--and discovers that she'd rather be mortal and deluded and stupid with those she loves than perfect and alone.
Aktuelle Rezensionen(1)
Rezension von Denise NI got this book because it seemed interesting and because duh, Chuck Palaniuk. It revolves around 13yo Madison who recently just died due to a Marijuana overdose. She gets stuck in hell with a crowd like that of The Breakfast Club and a imaginative and different description of hell. The book is witty and has some humor to it. I never got scared of hell because of the satire. An example here would be the Ocean of Semen. There are also some lines that are funny yet somewhat makes you really wonder if there is some truth to it like the part where they say most of the internet’s business is conjured up in hell. It’s kind of true when you think about the nasty things that happen online. You have the use of the telemarketer (not applicable in the Philippines but true for other countries). Each chapter starts with a message to Satan (and that part makes me uncomfortable being a kid raised in a Christian school). The book does pose a question in my mind of “What does it really take for someone to end up in Heaven or Hell?” While we see many depictions of hell here, it also shows that hell is tailored to what hell is according to that person. I wasn’t really fond of the way the book started in the first few chapters. Characterization of a 13 year old female seemed a bit off and cringe-y. It felt so slow and then it changes direction midway through the book. I wasn’t sure what the book was focusing on. It kept changing course along the way and when I get to the ending I’m like….whatttt?