Damned

De: Chuck Palahniuk

Narrado por: Sophie Amoss

“Are you there, Satan? It’s me, Madison,” declares the whip-tongued 13-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.

©2011 Chuck Palahniuk (P)2021 Recorded Books

Disgusting and Fantastic

I am a diehard Chuck Palahniuk fan and this book did not disappoint. It’s graphic, gross, and fantastically written

Delightful

One of Chuck's best and a must read/listen if you are a fan of his

Pronunciation:There’s an app for that

Story is great as per expected from Palahniuk. Narrator needs to double check pronunciation before moving forward with text! Distracted the hell out of me (no pun intended).

Great voice acting. Deliciously bizarre story.

If you like Palahniuk, you'll like this. It's gross and weird and heart warming. The reader, Sophie Amoss, was the cherry on top.

something good for once

i loved this story way more than i should. great story telling and imagination. extremely intelligent 13 year old in hell, living her best, hilarious life.

Writing was great.

Performance was ok. Wish it was a bit more engaging. Overall a great listen, Will listen to Doomed next!

Palahniuk Does It Again

The Breakfast Club, in Hell.

Such a brilliant book, with witty writing that'll likely fly over most people's heads. This is another absolute masterpiece by Chuck.

Great book

I recommend this book, Palahniuk is funny yet makes biting comments on us as a society. I like this performer, she is clear in her speech yet shows emotion in her reading.

2 1/2 hours in

If the sad blue girl from inside out were to do the narrative of a dead 13 year old girl trapped in hell it would sound like this.

Big fan of Chuck Palahnuik Survivor being one of my favorites. This book just did not pull me along. If she would have said “yes I know the word…” one more time I don’t think I could have held in the scream of annoyance.

there is no plot, deserves negative stars

This book has absolutely no plot at all. It's just rambling judgements, some of which are actually racist and clearly shows the author's superiority complex. I kept waiting for some sort of plot that was never found. This book sounded so promising before I hit play. Very rarely can I not finish a book.