Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
Damned
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
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. From the Hardcover edition.
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
blurb
JGadz11
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image

✨today‘s used book haul✨

blurb
BeeMagical
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image

Thrrrrift hauuuul!!👏🏻🙌🏻👌🏼👹

Found my Dark Tower II ! Can‘t believe so quickly either!👏🏻

StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego Some great reads there! 2y
Reggie Awwww Nightmares and Dreamscapes! That book totally started my love of horror short stories. Crouch End is my favorite from there. And The Bees! That book is crazy. So much action. Enjoy! 2y
BeeMagical @Reggie I thought there would be some Reggie books in this haul for sure!🙌🏻 I‘m really looking forward to The Bees!! & of course my new King collection😍 2y
BeeMagical @StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego I just can‘t help myself!😂 2y
28 likes4 comments
review
wanderinglynn
Damned (Damned #1) | Chuck Palahniuk
post image
Bailedbailed

The lack of an overarching plot, the repetitive “Are you there Satan” (a la Judy Blume‘s Margaret), the weird obsession with The Breakfast Club and the attempt to create a damned version in hell, and a 13yo female MC who sounds more like a middle aged white man attempting to imagine what a 13yo girl might sound like all did me in. DFN at 25%.

LeahBergen Yikes. 😬 2y
72 likes1 comment
review
Shemac77
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image
Pickpick

Always an enjoyable ride with Palahniuk.

blurb
Shemac77
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image

Time for some Palahniuk. He‘s always good for a horrified laugh.

kspenmoll The color of the tulip is beautiful! We can‘t grow them; voles love their bulbs! (edited) 3y
Shemac77 @kspenmoll Isn‘t it gorgeous? It‘s my sisters and the only one that colour. There‘s a faint hint of yellow around the edges and the pink is very unique. 3y
29 likes1 stack add2 comments
review
vanexana
Dannazione | Chuck Palahniuk
Pickpick

Assurdi

blurb
Addison_Reads
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image

#OppositeDay Day 7, #Up @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @TheKidUpstairs

When I was younger, a Sunday school teacher used to always tell us to be good little boys and girls or we'd end up "down there" which is what I first thought of with this prompt. I'm still not sure why she didn't just use the word Hell.

I actually enjoyed this book when I read it, so if you want to take a literary trip "down there" give it a read. ?

TheKidUpstairs Well played! 3y
29 likes1 comment
review
ElleSkel
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image
Pickpick

This one is so fun. Gross, but fun. I definitely prefer the book over the audio. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#Booked2021 ‘mustache on the cover‘
#BookSpin #booksandbooze

JamieArc Cute glasses!!! 3y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3y
ElleSkel @JamieArc Thanks! I couldn‘t help throwing them in the shot🤓📚🍺 3y
Kris10H My favourite Palahniuck of all time is still Invisible Monsters. It's out there, but also still a strangely accurate reflection of societal standards. 3y
44 likes4 comments
quote
ElleSkel
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image

“Too, I yearn to tell her that-if she loves reading books-she‘s going to adore being dead. Reading most books feels exactly like you‘re a dead body. It is all so ... finished.“📚☠️

Well alright.
#booked2021

review
magyklyXdelish
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image
Bailedbailed

I tried. However I spent a week trying to advance a single chapter and at some point you have to tap out. This clearly wasn‘t a book for me, which is unfortunate since it started great but just ended up boring me. I did buy this one though so there‘s a good chance I might pick it up again one day.

28 likes1 stack add
blurb
magyklyXdelish
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image

Finally caught up on #LitsyLove ❤️

Plus a special thank you for @cwarnier for hosting the #SummerBookmarkSwap

Finally back on track. I‘m still incredibly stressed about the coming fall with my husband being a teacher, but I‘m trying not to think about it so much.

Today has been pretty mellow. Here‘s hoping I can finally finish this stupid book and move on to something else 🙄😂

Happy Monday everyone 🌻

blurb
faelinwolf
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image

I saw a green stick bug on my #audiowalk today! 😀

Lindy Handsome! 4y
15 likes1 comment
review
jbushspies
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image
Pickpick

I loved this book. It was definitely out of sorts from what I normally read. I would have to describe it as light and funny, yet it addressed important modern issues from the perspective of an above average intelligence teenager.

quote
GatheringBooks
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image
review
LeticiaToraci
Damned (Damned #1) | Chuck Palahniuk
post image
Pickpick

This was originally funny and occasionally disgusting. 😁

blurb
Clwojick
Damned (Damned #1) | Chuck Palahniuk
post image

“Are you there Satan? It‘s me, Madison.”

So far, I am absolutely loving this book. I have no idea how I have never read any of his books before now... especially considering I‘ve have 4 of them on my bookshelf for years 😅#NewToYou #Palahniuk #MayMadness

@TheReadingMermaid @RadicalReader

HeathHof This is what got me hooked on Chuck P. ! Doomed is good too! 5y
ElizaMarie Been meaning to read this one 5y
vivastory I highly highly recommend his book 5y
Mandoul Havent read this one yet, but really enjoyed a few of his earlier books. Totally agree about Rant, which was my fav. 5y
105 likes5 stack adds4 comments
blurb
gradcat
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image

#MayMovieMagic

(Day 7 - #RedRightHand)

*The lyrics to this song always make me think of Palahniuk‘s novel “Damned.” There‘s Maddie, the 13-year-old telemarketer, calling from Hell, surveying the old and infirm. But—what lo—they fall in love with our Maddie, which prompts them to cash in their chips ahead of their expiration dates so they can join her army in Hell, confronting such baddies as Hitler, Vlad the Impaler, Catherine de Medici, etc.

Cinfhen How crazzy !! palahnuik is such a polarizing writer 🙃gotta admire him- original! 5y
RohitSawant What a premise! 5y
gradcat @Cinfhen @rohit-sawant He has ups & downs in his writing. This one is part one of a supposed trilogy, but so far we only have the second one... 5y
74 likes2 stack adds3 comments
blurb
readordierachel
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image

I DNF'd this tale narrated by a 13-year-old girl who ends up in Hell. Interesting idea, but I hated the execution of this #highwaytohell.

#maymoviemagic
@Cinfhen @rohit-sawant

Patchshank I didn't like it much either. I wasn't able to finish it. 5y
readordierachel @Patchshank I remember liking some early Palahniuk back in the day, but this was just not my cup of tea 5y
merelybookish I have no desire to read Palahniuk and posts like this remind me why! 😉 5y
See All 16 Comments
RohitSawant I haven't read anything by him yet. Love this cover, though! 5y
Reagan I think Snuff was the last one I finished. Lullaby was so great. 5y
Cinfhen One Palahnuik was enough for me 🙄 5y
Cinfhen But good choice for prompt!! 5y
Reggie Me and you both. This book was the last time I bought a Palahniuk until Fight Club last month. 5y
gradcat He is very difficult to swallow, but I like a few things he‘s done. I can easily understand why people don‘t like him, though—not everyone‘s cup of tea 🍵! 5y
readordierachel @merelybookish I used to dig him, but I've changed so much as a reader in the last 2 decades 🙃 5y
readordierachel @rohit-sawant I do, too! 5y
readordierachel @Reagan-reads I might have to check that one out someday. Just the premise of Snuff was too much for me 🙈 5y
readordierachel @Cinfhen Funny enough I've never read Fight Club, but I don't think I want to tbh... 5y
readordierachel @Reggie It's just so unsavory, and not in a fun way! 5y
readordierachel @gradcat Yes, I can totally see (and respect) that there is an audience for his work. Just not me anymore, I guess! Although I remember liking Survivor and Invisible Monsters way back in the day. 5y
ephemeralwaltz I DNF'd this too!!! 5y
74 likes2 stack adds16 comments
blurb
madamereadsalot1
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image

📚 - Damned

🎬 - The Gate

🎶 - Devil in Jersey City, Coheed & Cambria

#manicmonday @JoScho

JoScho 🖤😈🖤 5y
22 likes1 comment
blurb
madamereadsalot1
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image
blurb
ephemeralwaltz
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image

#31bookpics | Day 21 (playing catch-up!)

This was a #DNF for me. I tried to read this a few years ago and I'm not even going to try to find an excuse for bailing. Ugh. I've enjoyed a few Palahniuk novels but this just was a big "no" from me.

@howjessreads

Jadams89 I felt the same way. I just couldn‘t finish it. 5y
ephemeralwaltz @Jadams1776 nice to see I'm not alone! I've been scrolling through the posts on Litsy and I'd never seen a book on here that so many people had bailed on or panned!😂 5y
50 likes2 comments
review
teenangstlives
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image
Panpan

Unreadable. I feel as interesting as the plot is the execution of this was horrible. I can't imagine anyone enjoying this. Nothing to do with the writing style either because I loved Choke by him. This was scattered, repetitive and seemed like something he puked up to meet his deadline. I'm shocked this was even published.

review
Jadams89
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image
Bailedbailed

The obsession with bodily fluids was a bit too much for me. This is ridiculous- I‘m moving on.

j9brown I bailed on a different book of his (Diary maybe?) for the same reason! 6y
32 likes1 comment
quote
heylaurenmack
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk

True, Jane Eyre is an eternal, ageless character, but no matter how many times you read that damned book, she always gets married to gross, burn-victim Rochester. Reread that Bronte book all you want but Jane Eyre‘s never going to get gender reassignment surgery or train to become a kickass ninja assassin. And it‘s pathetic she believes she‘s real. Jane‘s just ink stamped on a page, but she really, truly thinks she‘s a living-alive person.

review
Chellebearss
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image
Mehso-so

Madison Spencer is 13 years old when she wakes up one day and finds herself in Hell. She speaks to Satan and discusses her life before death when she was living with her celebrity parents. “Are you there, Satan? It‘s me, Madison,”
It's a little cheesy but I found it entertaining. It's first in a proposed trilogy but I didn't enjoy it enough to seek out the others.
“My parents meant well, but the road to Hell is paved with publicity stunts.” 3.5🌟

26 likes1 stack add1 comment
review
Dogearedcopy
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image
Panpan

🎧 Palahniuk skewers lest coast liberalism and its inherent hypocrisy in this satire featuring a 13-yo who dies after smoking too much mj and finds herself in Hell. While by no means family-friendly listening, there‘s not much of the author‘s trademark shock content and there are some tiresome and repetitive word/phrase usages. Audiobook narrator sounds like a 13-yo, but mispronunciations and awkward delivery “damn” this production.

BethFishReads Crap. But he‘s hit or miss for me 6y
23 likes1 comment
blurb
Dogearedcopy
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image

🎧 Pulling this backlist title from my TBL queue and starting it tonight! I‘m prepared for rough/crude scenes and satirical humor in this story about a 13-yo who dies and goes to hell. So yeah, just your standard run-of-the-mill Palahniuk 😜

27 likes1 stack add
review
DarcysMom
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image
Pickpick

🌟🌟🌟🌟
#audiobook
#overdrive

MidnightBookGirl I've tried a few times with this book but it's too gross. But I did like the snark. 6y
Gezemice Sounds like my kind of book. Stacked! 6y
DarcysMom @MidnightBookGirl I think listening to the book made it easier to get through the gross stuff. If I had been looking at the descriptions... blergh! 6y
BookwormM Great review stacked 6y
70 likes6 stack adds4 comments
blurb
DarcysMom
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image
blurb
DarcysMom
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image
quote
DarcysMom
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image

70 likes1 stack add
blurb
DarcysMom
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image
TricksyTails Ooh this is a fun one! 6y
DarcysMom @TricksyTails I am about 30 minutes in and enjoying Madison's teenage attitude tremendously. I have laughed loudly multiple times - including at a red light, where I startled the person in the car next to me. 😂🤣 6y
TricksyTails 😂 There are many more of those moments! Hope you‘re not easily embarrassed in public! 😂 6y
DarcysMom @TricksyTails Not even a little bit. I have been out on #audiowalks where In have laughed like a crazy person and cried like my heart was breaking. No shame. 6y
TricksyTails YES! Same! 🙌🙌🙌 No shame!!! ♥️♥️♥️ 6y
74 likes2 stack adds5 comments
quote
SincerelyWinona
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk

“In a world where people say you're lazy for not shaving your legs, then being dead seems like the ultimate character flaw.”

review
Victoriahoperose
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image
Pickpick

This was a fun book. I think a lot of people didn‘t like it because it was so heavy in the satire genre, more so than any of his other books. He makes reference to Johnathan Swift who is one of the great writers of satire in this and it makes it evident of how the sarcasm is supposed to be heavy to make its point, similar to Swift‘s “A Modest Proposal”. Definitely over the top, but it wouldn‘t be Palahniuk if it weren‘t.

12 likes1 stack add
review
shahn77
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image
Pickpick

I have been a long time fan of Chuck Palahniuk. Some of his earlier books are among my all-time favorites(Survivor, Diary, Invisible Monsters, Choke, Lullaby). He lost me somewhere around Haunted and Pygmy. This audiobook was available from the library this week so I gave it a shot. It wasn't as great as his earlier stuff, but I enjoyed it and look forward to the sequel!

blurb
dariazeoli
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image

13-year old Madison finds herself in hell. Not the #afterlife any of us expect. (Alternate title: Hell Is for Children?)

Damned is the first in what was supposed to be a trilogy, but I'm not sure if the 3rd book is ever coming out.

#junetunz

Cinfhen 🙀🙀 7y
britt_brooke That cover is 🔥🔥🔥! 7y
34 likes2 comments
review
EmiisBooks
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
Pickpick

Review continued...
The plot is a bit out there, but if you try to just focus on the main character's development it is a fun read.
I found this book interesting and funny! Maybe something is wrong with me, but I was told it was a fun read!

review
EmiisBooks
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
Pickpick

⭐️⭐️⭐️
This book was a hell of a read (pun intended)!
I enjoyed the character development. Some people might not like how the main character is 13 years old, but I think it's okay.
There is a Breakfast Club type thing going on, but it's only surrounding the main character and nothing like what we know as the Breakfast Club.
I LOVED Chuck's version of how Hell is and how you can be "Damned" to it!
‼️WARNING-Might be too crude for some readers‼️

7 likes1 stack add
blurb
EmiisBooks
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk

Something before I write my review on this book.

Some advice, don't read the summary of what the story is about. You will be disappointed if you go into reading this if you think it's just like the breakfast club, but in Hell. I'll spoil it for you; it's not.
It is a crude book, so it might not be for everyone.
Also at chapter 28 page 184, things escalate quickly!

blurb
EmiisBooks
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk

This booking isn't what I was expecting, but I want to know how this will end!

Not bailing this time!

blurb
EmiisBooks
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
This post contains spoilers
show me

Interesting view on Hell!

Candy and sweets are currency and there's an ocean of sperm, bugs, and hills of clipped toenails/ fingernails!

blurb
EmiisBooks
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image

My brother recommended this book to me.

He says it's basically like the Breakfast Club but in Hell.
He also says it's funny, so I guess I'll see if this book can turn my mood around from the previous horrid book I read!

review
Audiobookhead
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image
Mehso-so

This okish... that's all I got

review
Azrael
Dannazione | Chuck Palahniuk
post image
Mehso-so
quote
Ceveneth
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image

"Therefore, when we neglect to fear such a brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless."

4 likes1 stack add
quote
Ceveneth
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image

Finally! The words I've been searching for to describe my state of mind!

quote
Ceveneth
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image

"Hell is very much like Florida in that the resident bug life never dies."

blurb
Gregman6
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image

My current read and some new books.

review
Crystalblu
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image
Pickpick

Fun! Tolken type descriptions of hell. I approve!

BookBoggart I have the second book "doomed" chilling in my book bag right now. I was both in love and thoroughly grossed out by his version of hell. You definately know when you are reading a Palahniuk book. :) 8y
7 likes1 stack add1 comment
review
JasonArnopp
Damned | Chuck Palahniuk
post image
Pickpick

What a splendid piece of work this is. Chuck delivers his own personal vision of Hell via a dead 13-year-old girl, which you just know is going to be fun. Disturbing, clever, funny, all that good stuff.

JasonArnopp Looking forward to reading the sequel, Doomed, too. 8y
jessicarenee I listened to the audio books of both and loved it! :) 8y
51 likes21 stack adds2 comments