Appallingly entertaining, Haunted is Chuck Palahniuk at his finest-which means his most extreme and his most provocative. At a 2005 appearance in Miami, Florida, during the Haunted tour, Palahniuk commented that Haunted represented the last of a 'horror trilogy' (including Lullaby and Diary). 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. In the afterword of the latest edition of 'Haunted', Palahniuk reported that 'Guts' had been responsible for 73 fainting events. Haunted is on one level a satire of reality television- The Real World meets Alive. There, two men fight 'as long as they have to. Fight Club’s estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden, an enigmatic young man who holds secret after-hours boxing matches in the basements of bars. 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. Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist in this, his first book. 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. They are told by the people who have all answered an ad headlined Artists Retreat: Abandon your. Haunted is a novel made up of stories: twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales youll ever encounter. 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. 3.6 (103,726 ratings by Goodreads) Paperback. Rant takes the form of a (fictional) oral history of Buster.
Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you’ll ever encounter-sometimes all at once. RANT An Oral Biography of Buster Casey Chuck Palahniuk Doubleday On-sale date: ISBN: 978-7-4 24.95 ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Chuck Palahniuk is the bestselling author of seven novels: Haunted, Lullaby, Fight Clubwhich was made into a film by director David Fincher Diary, Survivor, Invisible, Monsters, and Choke. From the author of Fight Club, the classic portrait of the damaged contemporary male psyche, now comes this novel about the apocalyptic marketing possibilities of female pleasure. The stories are told by people who have all answered an ad headlined Artists Retreat: Abandon your life.
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: Twenty-three of them, to be precise. Haunted is a novel made up of stories: twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales youll ever encounter.