Haunted

I just finished reading this great work of fiction, best thing to do on the christmas days... I KNOW YOU CANT READ! I MAKE IT SHORT!

This book is by far not the best thing Chuck Palahniuk created, I would put it rather at the bad end of his work, but it's still worth a read and has it's moments. Really does hard.
All in all this is a collection of short stories, held together by a rather conceptual background story about a writer's retreat the grande bouffe way. Madness all around me, I feel it in my toes... or not, beacause toes and fingers get hacked of by the rate of 2 per page. Cruel.
That's also the overall characteristic of the stories, cruel. Cruel and genious. Palahniuk does what he does best and that is to show how unbelievably fucked up our world is, and how his charcters cope with that in their unconventional and exemplaric way. So far nothing new, but like most authors he can concentrate his ideas better than in the longer novels. The novels are better, but here, every story kicks your nuts hard and some, like "guts", "Speaking bitterness" or "exodus" even stay with you for various reasons.



If you really like to read his best stuff, read "Rant", "Invisible monster", "Choke" and "Fight Club". Then read his other novels. Then read "Haunted".
You won't be disappointed.