Whether engaging in loopy humor or sorting through the haunting detritus of his own life, Palahniuk writes rigorously, getting the tone just right in each piece.
Palahniuk has always had an eye for both the ridiculous and the sublime, and never has it been more evident than in “Damned”...His Hell strikes an unsettling balance between horror and absurdity.
I really like Victor Mancini as a character, but I have a hard time caring about the situations in which he’s placed. He presents everything he does in this larger-than-life way, and it’s getting to the point where his narrative is just too grand…
...the release offers today’s crop of young urban hipsters an opportunity to connect with the voices of a previous decade.
Palahniuk offers in spare, straightforward prose a harrowing and hilarious glimpse into the future of civilization.
When a book kicks off with a teenager getting his intestine sucked out by an intake valve as he's masturbating at the bottom of a swimming pool...well, there's really nowhere to go from there, ya know?
While Palahniuk’s fans will surely be pleased, the books reads like a YA novel from hell whose threadbare premise only sporadically entertains.