Every chapter of “Damned” begins with a satirical spin on Ms. Palahniuk told one interviewer that he was reading Judy Blume books. But he shows new signs of life in “Damned,” a book full of tastelessly hilarious gallows humor about a teenage girl in hell.
These books have been skimpy and tired enough to suggest that this “Fight Club” author has had all the fight drained out of him. His lurid recent efforts, from “Snuff” (pornography) to “Tell-All” (movie-star gossip) to “Pygmy” (broken English from teenage foreign terrorists), have tried the patience of even his most die-hard fans.
By any definition of the word “decency” it’s been a long time since Chuck Palahniuk wrote a decent book.
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