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Damned

By: Chuck Palahniuk
Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
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“Are you there, Satan? It’s me, Madison,” declares the whip-tongued 13-year-old narrator of Damned, Chuck Palahniuk’s subversive new work of fiction.

The daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, while her parents are off touting their new projects and adopting more orphans. She dies over the holiday of a mari­juana overdose - and the next thing she knows, she’s in Hell.

Madison shares her cell with a motley crew of young sinners that is almost too good to be true: a cheerleader, a jock, a nerd, and a punk rocker, united by fate to form the six-feet-under version of everyone’s favorite detention movie. Madison and her pals trek across the Dandruff Desert and climb the treacherous Mountain of Toenail Clippings to confront Satan in his citadel. All the popcorn balls and wax lips that serve as the currency of Hell won’t buy them off.

This is the afterlife as only Chuck Palahniuk could imagine it: a twisted inferno where The English Patient plays on end­less repeat, roaming demons devour sinners limb by limb, and the damned interrupt your dinner from their sweltering call center to hard-sell you Hell. He makes eternal torment, well, simply divine.

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I am a diehard Chuck Palahniuk fan and this book did not disappoint. It’s graphic, gross, and fantastically written

Disgusting and Fantastic

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If you like Palahniuk, you'll like this. It's gross and weird and heart warming. The reader, Sophie Amoss, was the cherry on top.

Great voice acting. Deliciously bizarre story.

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The sheer volume of pronunciation errors took away any enjoyment to be had from this otherwise engaging book. It’s almost like they were done intentionally since there were so many and many of the words were relatively common. It was very disappointing.

Unbelievable Pronunciation Errors

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I liked the story. This author is always so creative but the narrator made it so entertaining and deserves a lot of credit.

Love the narration

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The plot seemed interesting but it was so strange. “Hey Satan, it’s me, Madison.” You never escape this sentence. It is as the beginning of every chapter. And I have never hated my name more! 😅

Ok so the story’s Madison is a deceased 13-year old, but she didn’t have a traditional upbringing… she was exposed to drugs and sexual actions at a young age, and her parents were oblivious celebrity hippies! While that is not always a bad thing, it also exposed her to bad people.

Madison is in Hell, literally, due to her actions in life. You go on a journey with her and a crew reminiscent of “The Breakfast Club” and are supposed to feel a connection throughout different parts of Hell.

Well, hell, I didn’t connect but some parts were fun to read but also some parts just felt too perverted (almost). I couldn’t get past some things which leads me to this rating.

13-Year-Old in Hell

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