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Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted
KharBevNor:
You Americans and your crazy stuff I've never heard of. ALTHOUGH, now I remember where I heard the name from, does 'Guts' involve a swimming pool cleaner?
Shock writing can be fun. I enjoy Iain Banks horror, especially The Wasp Factory. Some awful, awful, awful moments. Animal mutilation, congenitally deformed babies, maggots and the whole thing is written from the perspective of a totally deranged teenaged serial killer (although he claims that killing people is 'a phase he grew out of')
The double twist ending is also grotesquely bizarre.
Trollstormur:
Yea, khar. that's the same story.
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: Trollstormur ---I don't remember that one offhand. which one's that?
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Which, Baglady's? Baglady's is the one where the rich people go slumming and start winding up dead. Of course, I hadn't read Sister Vigilante's yet; now that was disquieting.
Lullaby, if that's what you were referring to, is the novel where the guy learns this African culling song, which was a chant used to calm people's souls to send them to the afterlife. Yes, a bunch of people wind up dead. Voila.
Trollstormur:
I was referring to baglady's. No, that one wasn't so bad, you just wait for Countess Frostbite's story. I still shiver a little thinking about that story.
Jude:
--- Quote from: Johnny C ---Whatever you do, though, don't read Lullaby. It just kind of sits there and tries to shock you on occasion.
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I was going to say, that's the only work of his I've read, and it put me off ever reading anything else by him.
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