Corey reviewed Doomed by Chuck Palahniuk
Review of 'Doomed' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
It’s not that his novels haven’t all dealt with unpleasant people; it’s that his novels have increasingly become unpleasant. Absent is Palahniuk’s wicked humour, replaced with snarkiness galore. Gore replaces wit. Body odours take the place of characterization. His ideas are still solid — particularly a bizarre world-wide religious uprising that encourages obscenities and filth in place of civility, a religion that recalls the Vonnegutian tinge of his earlier works — but he can’t seal the deal. It’s all surface, no depth. It’s a shtick, not a novel.
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