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Still, the novel showcases the author's powers of description, character development and attention-getting dialogue handily enough to give this dark meditation on addiction a distinctive and humorous twist. Victor is even more pathetic than Palahniuk's previous antiheroes, in that the world he creates for himself (a carnivalesque mГ©lange of theme park, geriatric ward and asylum) is actually more horrific than the one he seeks to escape. This has a profound effect on Victor, who is stunned by the possibility that there may be some good in him after all. Marshall, who shows him his mother's diary it describes her self-impregnation by a holy relic she believes to be the foreskin of Jesus. This becomes challenging when Victor is seduced by a strange hospital worker calling herself Dr.

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Victor supports his mother, who is in the hospital, stricken with Alzheimer's she is wasting away, and despite the misery she put him through in childhood (revealed in an increasingly horrific series of flashbacks), he wants to be a good boy and take care of her. During the working day, he is trapped in a 1734 colonial theme park, where the entire self-medicated staff blearily endures abusive school tours while hiding out from the world. Writer Chuck Palahniuk is perhaps most-often recognized for Fight Club more than he is for his works of horror, but one in particular is.

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Movie adaptations of Chuck Palahniuk's works of horror are long overdue, especially the impressively horrifying stories in the 2005 novel Haunted. Cruising sex-addict meetings for action, Victor enjoys bathroom trysts with nymphomaniacs on short prison furloughs, focused on maximizing his sexual highs. The Chuck Palahniuk Book That Would Be A Perfect Horror Movie. I personally loved Haunted, and thought that it was an interesting take on the human want to magnify pain and suffering to gain sympathy. Like previous Palahniuk protagonists, Victor Mancini is young and prematurely cynical, a med school dropout whose eerily detached narration of the banal horrors of everyday existence gives way to a numbed account of nihilistic carnage. Although Ive read reviews that claim that Haunted is entirely unrealistic and stupid, I dont think that Palahniuk is attempting to create something realistic in his story of a writers retreat gone bad. Before each story is a poem written about a character in the book, then the story is written by that character and each story is followed by a chapter in the main narrative.

Palahniuk ( Fight Club Invisible Monsters) once again demonstrates his faith in the credo that before things get better, they must get much, much worse. Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a collection of 23 short stories.

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