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What elevates Palahniuk's best novels (e.g., Fight Club) above their shocking premises is his ability to find humanity in deeply grotesque characters. But such generosity of spirit is not evident in his latest, which charts the trials of a group of aspiring writers brought together for a three-month writer's retreat in an abandoned theater. The novel intersperses the writers' poems and short stories with tales of the indignities they heap upon themselves after deciding to turn their lives into a "true-life horror story with a happy ending." They lock themselves in the theater, reasoning that once they're found, they'll all become rich and famous. They raise the stakes of their story by first depriving themselves of phones, and then of food and electricity; eventually they cut off their own fingers, toes and unmentionables before they start dying off and eating each other. Palahniuk tells his story with such blithe disregard for these characters that it's hard not to wish he had dispensed with the novel altogether and published, instead, the 23 short stories that pop up throughout the book. For instance, "Obsolete," about a young girl about to commit state-mandated suicide, and "Slumming," about rich couples who pretend to be homeless, play so deftly with expectations and have an emotional core so surprising that they consistently, powerfully transcend their macabre premises to showcase the heart beating beneath the horrors.
內容簡介
Haunted is a novel made up of twenty-three horrifying, hilarious, and stomach-churning stories. They're told by people who have answered an ad for a writer's retreat and unwittingly joined a "Survivor"-like scenario where the host withholds heat, power, and food. As the storytellers grow more desperate, their tales become more extreme, and they ruthlessly plot to make themselves the hero of the reality show that will surely be made from their plight. This is one of the most disturbing and outrageous books you'll ever read, one that could only come from the mind of Chuck Palahniuk.
作者簡介
Chuck Palahniuk's six novels are the bestselling Diary, Choke, Lullaby, Fight Club--which was made into a film by director David Fincher--Survivor, and Invisible Monsters. He is also the author of a profile of Portland, Fugitives and Refugees, and the nonfiction collection Stranger Than Fiction. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.
精彩書評
"Reading a Palahniuk novel is like getting zipped inside a boxer's heavy bag while the author goes to work on you, pounding you until there is nothing left but a big bag of bones and blood and pain."
——The Miami Herald
"To Palahniuk's credit, there is something here to appall almost every sensibility. The author has a singular knack for coming up with inventive new ways to shock and degrade."
——The New York Post
"Frequently entertaining [and] often appalling... There are paragraphs here-entire pages, in fact-that are as disgusting as anything I've ever read. Truly vivid and harrowing (and often quite funny)."
——Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Summer reading for people who like their lit doused in bodily fluids... Haunted has an anarchic sensibility that hurdles over the top."
——Time Out New York
"Chuck Palahniuk is one of the most intriguing writers of our time. [Haunted ] is a blend of stories that are among the most horrifying, stomach-churning and mind-blowing tales ever encountered."
——Tucson Citizen
"Chuck Palahniuk's rightful place is among literary giants. He combines the masculinity of Ernest Hemingway, the satirical bent of Juvenal and the attitude of Lenny Bruce."
——Greensboro News & Record
"To Palahniuk's credit, there is something here to appall almost every sensibility. The author has a singular knack for coming up with inventive new ways to shock and degrade."
——New York Post
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使古浪不敢對視,但是古浪知道這是自己生死的關頭,極力地平靜著心情,細聽哈門陀所言,心中暗思對策。 哈門陀又道:“可是這麼多日子下來,沒有一些要領,他們幾乎全懷疑你!” 說到這裏,他的語氣更強瞭,古浪心弦為之一震。 他連忙接口道:“真奇怪!不知我有什麼使他們懷疑之處,沿途他們好幾次要置我於死!” 哈門陀麵上沒有一絲錶情,說道:“如果我不是你的師父,我也會懷疑你呢!” 古浪聞言又是一驚,他與哈門陀相處過一段時期,深知哈門陀的性情,在這種情況下,自己是無論如何,也得大膽錶明一下的。 於是,他硬著頭皮說道:“師父,我孤身一人,自‘達木寺’至此,師父一路暗護著,除瞭簡單行李外,彆無長物,師父可先搜我身,然後隨我迴店去搜行李,若有任何可疑之物,我願受極刑!” 古浪說瞭這一篇話,也可說是大膽已極,但是他知道,如果不這麼錶示,是很難消除哈門陀的疑心的。 哈門陀果然笑瞭起來,說道:“這是什麼話,我豈會懷疑你?” 古浪的心這時纔放瞭下來,忖道:“好險!萬
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Haunted: A NovelHaunted: A Novel
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內容就不說瞭,紙質較一般外文書好很多等麵的夜光效果,配閤書內容看效果加倍
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palahniuk除瞭fight club以外最好的一本
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熒光的封麵,恰剋的邪典小說非常精彩。
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熒光的封麵,恰剋的邪典小說非常精彩。
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重口味名作的英文原版,值得一試的好書
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內容就不說瞭,紙質較一般外文書好很多等麵的夜光效果,配閤書內容看效果加倍