Official Synopsis For 'Damned,' The New Novel
Courtesy of Random House, comes the official synopsis of Chuck Palahniuk's upcoming novel Damned. What little we know about the book previously, told us that a young girl dies and goes to hell, and that Chuck was very influenced by the Young Adult novels of Judy Blume, while writing it. Now, we have this official synopsis that was recently posted at RandomHouse.com:
“Are you there, Satan? It’s me, Madison,” declares the whip-tongued eleven-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.
Damned drops on October 18, 2011.
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She was never dead. And the whole time she's been living a homeless life on the streets of Portland and all the weird creatures she meets are just wacky Portand hobos!
Chuck's the shit, i like all his books. But why are you people getting so worked up over someone not sharing your opinions?
I can't imagine how traveling across hell would look like...or feel like.
I, for one, cannot wait for Damned to be released. Palahniuk keeps it simple but wholly submerges the reader into his satirical yet extremely relevant insight of society and the people in it. All the while entertaining. I'm glad no one's insulted Invisible Monsters, that, in my opinion at least, is his best.
Interesting to see how people butt heads so easily. Oh well, everyone's entitled to their opinion.
As Homer Simpson once said "...filter out the crap and leaves you something that you can fit in your front pocket."
Seriously, when I saw the pocketbook prints of "Pygmy", "Diary", "Snuff", "Rant", and "Tell-All" I thought "Wow, they're too thin." But, man, they maybe thin but they're an excellent fucking read.
It goes to show don't judge a book...by it's thickness of pages.
i'm with you..... that part throws me a little.... but i dig the mountain of toenails thing or whatever.... it'll be good...
i hope
i didn't ever give snuff a chance....
but haunted, i thought, was a pretty good read
damned doesn't look like TOO much of a turd...
i just really hope the marijuana overdose thing has a little depth to it and isn't the result of a lack of research, haha
by the way you guys are uproariously hilarious....
clever comments
,Tone
Right! Thats insane. Now im really interested.
All this talk about Pygmy.. Made me go 'WTF is everyone's problem with Pygmy?.. I remember really liking that book when I read it... Then I remembered that oh yeah it's written in the narrators own broken English.." my point is, that aspect was so secondary for me that I completely forgot about it..I only remembered reading a great book.... Funny that that seemed to twist some people's brain into a knot and they couldn't deal with it... Were you not able to read a clockwork orange either? Did it give you a pain in the gulliver?
I died from an overdose too, but mine was with mezcaline (peyote) My uncle made me chew 10 heads of the cactus when i was 10 years old.
Then i went to hell and met Mictecacíhuatl the mother of all deads, she told me that everything that we saw soon will disrepair then she resurrected me with psylocibine (Magic Mushrooms from Toluca) to post this here.
Personally, I am absolutely LOVING Damned. I'm on page 179 and I do not want it to end. But of course, I feel that way about all of Chuck's books that I read. Madison is actually thirteen, I have no idea why it says eleven. That really confused me xD But honestly, no matter how skeptical about it you may be, just give it a chance. It's not at all what I expected, and I love that. It really makes you think, as well.
I say just read it. You never know what could happen.