Doomed

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss

Welcome to Purgatory. Chuck Palahniuk style.

After a botched Halloween ritual, Madison Spencer, the snarkiest dead girl in the universe, finds herself trapped in Purgatory, otherwise known as Earth. The upside: She is no longer subject to physical limitations (she can pass through doors and walls). The downside: Well, she’s still dead.

Her first stop is her parents’ luxurious apartment, where she runs into her grandmother’s ghost. For Madison, the encounter triggers memories of the awful summer she spent upstate. As she revisits the painful truth of what transpired over those months, her saga of eternal damnation takes on a new and sinister meaning. And as it turns out, Madison and her parents have always been key elements of Satan’s master plan — Doomsday.

©2013 Chuck Palahniuk (P)2021 Recorded Books

this book has some really unique characters.

the beginning felt like a bit of a slog, maybe want as polished as the rest of the story.

Not great, but not terrible

Not my favorite of his books. The language left a bit to be desired, but I have to remember that it was written as a 13 year old girl. Damned was much better at keeping pace and interest, I still look forward to the final installment.

One of chucks most disturbing and hilarious chapters

Well performed and an extremely hilarious and dark story. Overall feels a bit to long and losses focus. But when it hits it hits hard. Highly recommend.

very grotesque

very good book as dark and crazy as it may be. definitely different but good to listen to!

good disturbing read!

it's twisted just keep with it, told in so many directions you're going to need to pay attention

Chuck has written better…

The story was okay, but takes a side quest to a summer in Madison’s youth that drags on too long. And the recording is rife with sentences cut off in the middle, repeated words and other editing issues. Generally underwhelmed.

enjoyed thoroughly

I have read many of Chuck's books, and this one is at the top story wise. would definitely recommend

Terrible work from an otherwise fantastic author.

Too much baby talk from main character, fat kid troupes were too often/not funny, overall the absolute WORST Palahniuk book ever. Love the writer hated this book🤦😮‍💨🥺

Control-Alt-Disappointing

Spoiler Free Review. I REALLY wanted to like this as it is the second of a divine comedy trilogy. I earnestly enjoyed Damned. I am a conflicted optimist. So Damned worked for me. This story is supposed to be a version Purgatory. So it's a retelling of all of the antihero Madisons predead sins and defining moments. There are nearly a 100 chapters in this book. It's so staccatoed that it is distracting. The author makes some of the scenes incredibly grotesque that it's laughable and slapstick yet not entertaining it just feels repetitive. As a reader, I am not sinking into the story. I found that I was constantly having to corral my thoughts and suspend my disbelief. when the story got too "dumb" I had to stop and say to myself this place Madison is in is supposed to be not hell and not heaven and those are the lenses the reader should be absorbing the book. This book was just eh and kept imbibing it hoping that the end would find redemption. FAUX SPOILER ALERT. It control-alt-fails.

Definitely not my favorite of Palahniuk

I don’t know if listening to it instead of reading it had that much to do with it. I was hoping for more at the end. I didn’t care for the way the narrator impersonated mens voices, so that didn’t help. Also got sick of hearing a 13 year olds terms for male genitalia real quick. I love Palahniuk, but this one was too gross and not thrilling enough.