After finally reading the much-talked-about Fight Club, with which I was disappointed, I swore I’d never read another Chuck Palahniuk book. I’m glad I didn’t keep that promise. Damned is actually, well, damned good! This novel follows the exploits of 13-year-old Madison Spencer’s trip to hell after a Marijuana overdose, and all she encounters in that fiery region. The story is a Breakfast Club of sorts, as Maddy (the chubby outcast) meets Babette (the cheerleader,) Patterson (the jock,) Leonard (the nerd,) and Archer (the punk.) The story, told in first-person and alternating flashbacks to Maddy’s life with her current adventure, is satire at it’s best. At times funny, touching, and caustic, it’s a hell of a good read.

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The wolf crept around the side of the marketplace, sniffing the wind. There were men and women everywhere, many different races, in various states of health. There were fat ones, thin ones, old ones, and young ones, all equally slow but also equally cunning. He would have to tread carefully if he wanted to survive this dangerous encounter with the humans.

— Memories of a Ghost, chapter 16