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Haunted
by: Chuck Palahniuk

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780099458371
ISBN: 0099458373
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: May 04, 2006
Publisher: Vintage
Studio: Vintage
Sales Rank: 6078

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Best Palahniuk book ever!
I have read all his books and this is without a doubt my favorite. Palahniuk shows off what he is really good at - short storys. Everyone of which is in their own right haunting, deeply disturbing, and unforgettable. The ties that make up the whole are also just as well crafted, drawing you into a sense of paralysis and paranoia that is unrivaled by any other book that i have read. I finished it over a year ago but it has never fully left my mind. If you like Palahniuk and haven't read this then do it now.

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- short stories brilliant!
I have to be honest, the short stories are superb, however the content between the shorts gave me the impression of some bad B movie, all sat round...one with a tape recorder...one with a video camera...but them it gets deeply...deeply twisted and I loved it!!!

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- Not his best effort
I've read most of CP's books to date, and enjoyed most. This is not one of his good ones.
There are some gems, some images and short stories that stay with you but the frame story sucks, the characters all have the same voices and the overall plot does not deliver. It would have been a better book in the short story format instead of this half baked idea to collect them together.
If you're a fan, you'll read it anyway, if you're not try one of his other books.

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- Sticks with you
Palahniuk goes a long way to drive home a simple point. The point being that we don't need fictional monsters to scare us; Frankenstein, Dracula, Bloody Mary... they all pale in comparison to what you and I are capable of. This is the premise he sets early on, and then he proceeds to drive home his point with one disturbing story after another.

And while most of the stories were well executed, I couldn't help feeling manipulated. Like Palahniuk was so intent on making his point that he abandoned all sense of finesse in favor of blunt force trauma. Gone was the tightly controlled, sophisticated rage of his past work, and in its place was a kind of unleashed, unfocused fury.

That said, I'd still recommend this offering ... Read More:

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- What went wrong?
While I still recommend 'Fight Club' to my friends for an excellent, stylized read, I was extremely disappointed by 'Haunted'
As a fan of Chuck's writing style and over all quirky content, I expected great things from 'Haunted' having read and enjoyed everything else he has ever written. I could not have been more wrong! Chuck appears to have sold out to shock tactics, producing a thoroughly gorey and plotless novel! I forced myself to finish it, hoping it would get better but I was sadly wrong!
'Snuff' will have to be back to the old Chuck to get me back on board. Something tells me it won't be!

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