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Haunted

Written by: Chuck Palahniuk
Narrated by: Scott Brick, Marc Cashman, Erik Davies, Kimberly Farr
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Publisher's Summary

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: 23 of them, to be precise. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you'll ever encounter, sometimes all at once. 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. 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. 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.

Haunted is on one level a satire of reality television: The Real World meets Alive. 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. Appallingly entertaining, Haunted is Chuck Palahniuk at his finest, which means his most extreme and his most provocative.

©2005 Chuck Palahniuk (P)2005 Random House, Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House, Inc.

What the critics say

"[The stories] consistently, powerfully transcend their macabre premises to showcase the heart beating beneath the horrors." (Publishers Weekly)

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Look pass the gore

I find these stories to be dark but surprisingly insightful. The prose is a bit too gritty for me. In some stories it works great. In some others it gets a bit mono-tone.

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I can't stop thinking about these stories...

5 Stars. An anthology of truly disturbing and cleverly written short stories that add so much depth and intrigue to a Haunting tale. The switch off between narrators give each character their own individual aura and it works....
I'll be telling these for a while... the camera behind the camera behind the camera.

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Not for timid readers.

This is Chuck Palahniuk unbridled. True to his style, this book is shocking and not for the timid reader. If you're interested in CP and are considering this one as your first read ... don't. Get your feet wet with another title of his.

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Guilty, macabre humor.

Chuck weaves together stories of trauma, horror and tragedy together to create a startlingly philosophical read.

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Honestly, I hate this book

I thought it was so boring and forgettable, I don't even think I could tell you a single thing that happens in this book aside from maybe a few things from the "Guts" section

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yeah, there's some gore, but nothing scary

yeah, there's some gore, but nothing scary. it just didn't hold up as a complete book, even if it's short stories. some were ok.

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Snoozfest

I found the Narrators in the books to be extremely annoying and felt the book as a whole was boring.

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