The place depicted also makes some sense, especially in the Great Ocean of Wasted Sperm, Vast Abyss of Insects, and Shit Lake. His version of hell somehow makes sense, for I can imagine where telemarketers and sex webcams come from. Palahniuk paints a very vivid description of the place, making it truly disgusting and revolting, yet somehow making it sound like not-such-a-bad-place-either.

The flashbacks work quite well to compound Maddie lack of interest in life they complement her philosophy towards hell.

Maddie grows over the chapters that take place on both hell and earth. Her perspective towards life as a quasi-celebrity and a pre-pubescent dead girl is interesting to read, and it works great in the picaresque nature of the narrative. Her voices comes across as snarky and witty, but as time goes on, we find out that she’s quite naïve and stupid, which isn’t really surprising considering the fact that she’s only 13. She comes across as a snarky, pre-teen, chubby girl who is the daughter of a movie star and a billionaire. The very first thing I truly liked about the book was Maddie Spencer. I found the book refreshing if a somewhat muddled. Damned is no exception-in fact, it’s almost an archetypal Palahniuk work. Chuck Palahniuk is known for writing novels that conjure gritty images, develop strong but unreliable narrators, and offer some form of commentary on life.

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