Haunted (Unabridged) Haunted (Unabridged)

Haunted (Unabridged‪)‬

    • 4.1 • 35 Ratings
    • $14.99

    • $14.99

Publisher Description

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: Twenty-three of them, to be precise. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you’ll ever encounter—sometimes all at once. 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. 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. 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.

Haunted is on one level a satire of reality television—The Real World meets Alive. 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. Appallingly entertaining, Haunted is Chuck Palahniuk at his finest—which means his most extreme and his most provocative.

GENRE
Fiction
NARRATOR
VN
Various Narrators
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
13:52
hr min
RELEASED
2005
May 10
PUBLISHER
Random House Audio
SIZE
687
MB

Customer Reviews

chjiuy ,

Meh

I don’t understand the hype. It wasn’t scary nor was it disturbing. Lol

Delina83 ,

Boring

This book is more disturbing than scary. A collection of stories that confuse true horror with disturbing and revolting concepts. Didn’t really enjoy it at all and could’ve loved and died happier had I not chose to read it. I don’t understand the hype behind this book.

galloway35 ,

One massive flaw.

The short backstories are cool and all but a total void exists in place of the story. The main story is just so entirely boring and forgettable. I think he just wanted an excuse to publish all the messed up shorts, which is fine (some of them are interesting) but do not take the bait. There is no central plot.

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