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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.
Series
2 primary booksDamned is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2011 with contributions by Chuck Palahniuk.
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I love this. The first part of the book was quite annoying, I didn't really feel for the main character while she was rambling on. But she kinda grew on me and the book got better and better. Really thought-provoking and if whatever is in this is true, I'm damned for eternity on so many levels....
This definitely isn't as good as Palahniuk's earlier books, but all-in-all, not bad.
Quick synopsis: A 13 year old girl dies and is accidentally sent to hell instead of heaven. While there she embraces her new home for eternity, builds an army of followers, and sets out to overthrow satan.
The book was okay, but not nearly as entertaining as Chuck Palahniuk's other books.