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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Information, he knew, was the most valuable commodity that existed in the new century. Perhaps it would serve them equally well in 1977. He quickly located the laptop bag and set it on the floor beneath the window sill. Moving to the laptop, he loaded Website Extractor, a research tool capable of autonomously downloading huge amount of data from the Web, and programmed it to find everything it could relating to Carthage circa ‘75 to ‘81.

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