Doomed

Ya know... I'm not really sure what was happening. At like any point of this book. I loved the first, Damned, though at times it was slow (interestingly enough those points were where chuck fanned his extravagant vocabulary and provocative sexual innuendos). The first this was bearable, this Doomed left me feeling just that. I had ended up listening audiobook style which left me even more wtf???? than I was just reading. Real disappointed. I'm a big fan of Chuck's work, loooooved Invisible Monsters (read 2x which never happens) but this was a sad excuse for a sequel. Makes me wanna throw him in the streets like, SHAME ! SHAME ! SHAME ! (GOT crowd style)

The end picked up some steam, but for most of this novel it just dragged on and on, seemingly disjointed. At some points I think our dear Chuck forgot what book he was writing, or at least what direction he wanted to go.

While it did take me a while to get into this book, and (as sad as I am to say it) I do feel that Palahniuk is relying on his same old tropes, I did think that was interesting and well done. A unique continuity of Damned, for sure. Still not sure how I feel about it's epistolary style, though.

I read about half of this book before giving up. Too gross, too stupid, too unreadable. Sad, too, because Chuck Palahniuk is one of my favorite authors. I'm very disappointed in this “effort.”