Haunted chuck palahniuk audiobook tracklist
This is about a few accidents having to do with masterbation and according to the author, they are true stories from three men that he met while researching for another book. I actually didn’t think it was all that gross but I also love gory horror movies. It’s been said that while the author has read this story aloud people have actually fainted. This one is apparently the best known from this anthology but I had never heard of it before.
HAUNTED CHUCK PALAHNIUK AUDIOBOOK TRACKLIST HOW TO
I’m not really sure how to go about this review because it’s not like anything I have ever read before so I think I’m just going to list the stories, give a short thought on it and my rating.ġ. They also plan to blame everything on Mr. The writers decide that the more they suffer, the more money they will get so they begin to increase their suffering by self mutilation and cannibalism. Whittier, who runs the retreat and his assistant, Mrs. They sabotage their food and electricity and then have to survive starvation, cold, and darkness. They live in harmless conditions, but then decide that it would make for a better story if there was suffering and they could become rich when they are rescued. They will have enough food and water for their stay as well as bedrooms, bathrooms, electricity, and a washer and dryer. This retreat takes place in an abandoned theater. 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.Īll of the characters are people that are going on a three month writing retreat where they are expected to write a masterpiece, and they all go by nicknames that have to do with the stories that they write. Appallingly entertaining, Haunted is Chuck Palahniuk at his finest-which means his most extreme and his most provocative.Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a collection of 23 short stories. It draws from a great literary tradition-The Canterbury Tales, The Decameron, the English storytellers in the Villa Diodati who produced, among other works, Frankenstein-to tell an utterly contemporary tale of people desperate that their story be told at any cost. Haunted is on one level a satire of reality television-The Real World meets Alive. And the more desperate the circumstances become, the more extreme the stories they tell-and the more devious their machinations become to make themselves the hero of the inevitable play/movie/nonfiction blockbuster that will surely be made from their plight. But “here” turns out to be a cavernous and ornate old theater where they are utterly isolated from the outside world-and where heat and power and, most important, food are in increasingly short supply. They are told by people who have answered an ad headlined “Writers’ Retreat: Abandon Your Life for Three Months,” and who are led to believe that here they will leave behind all the distractions of “real life” that are keeping them from creating the masterpiece that is in them. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you’ll ever encounter-sometimes all at once. Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: Twenty-three of them, to be precise.