# Anybody reading Palahniuk's "Damned"? (boxed spoilers)

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**Created:** [October 24, 2011, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-reading-palahniuks-damned-boxed-spoilers/600649 "2011-10-24T17:33:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2011, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-reading-palahniuks-damned-boxed-spoilers/600649/1 "2011-10-24T17:33:21Z")

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Just finished it this weekend, and I liked it quite a bit. I thought it was his best in many years. Things that particularly amused me:

1. Hell’s economy runs on candy.
2. The damned get to go out among the living once a year (on Halloween)–I particularly thought this was funny given that they have to get new candy _somewhere_.
3. All the little girls dressed up in Madison Spencer costumes (strips of Hello Kitty condoms draped around their necks).
4. She could no longer use Hitler’s mustache as a power object because Tiger Stripe ate it! 😃
5. Satan.
6. Madison Desert Flower Rosa Parks Coyote Trickster Spencer.
7. Did her parents remind anyone else of Brad and Angelina and their endless adoption of third-world kids?

I didn’t realize until I read one of the reviews that it’s the beginning of a trilogy. That makes the ending make more sense. I’m looking forward to the next one!

Anyone else like it, hate it, etc.?

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**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-reading-palahniuks-damned-boxed-spoilers/600649/2 "2011-10-25T14:44:41Z")

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Nobody? Hrm. Either we don’t have any Palahniuk fans around here or else they haven’t gotten around to reading it yet. Bumping to see which it is. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-reading-palahniuks-damned-boxed-spoilers/600649/3 "2011-10-25T14:52:36Z")

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Palahniuk fan here, but I started to lose interest in him with “Lullaby”. God, does the guy repeat himself.

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**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-reading-palahniuks-damned-boxed-spoilers/600649/4 "2011-10-25T15:13:01Z")

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You might give this a try–it’s still Chuck, but it’s way better than his last few. (I absolutely hated Snuff, didn’t much like Tell-All or Rant, and was lukewarm about Pygmy, but I keep hoping he’ll get the magic back one of these days. I think he might have hit it with this one. It’s no Fight Club, but it’s a fun read.)

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**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-reading-palahniuks-damned-boxed-spoilers/600649/5 "2011-10-25T16:51:30Z")

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I’m waiting until it’s been reviewed more. I’m done being fooled into thinking a book will be good just because Palahniuk wrote it. His last few offerings have sucked so bad that I’m a lot more cautious now.