Chuck, the author, rattles off a bunch of news terms, describes really douche baggy people, and then the girl who's annoying who waited to be on this news show gets bumped off because they're out of time, and it ends with her being in love with the douche who bumped her off the show even thought there was no build up between the characters, it was just Chuck talking about terminology in live TV. There's a really boring story about a girl who is about to be on the news. If you like more traditional horror - steer totally clear of this piece of trash.Ĭouldn't finish it because it got really boring really fast. If you like that stuff in your movies (like slasher flicks), then go for it. It's not a bad plot, but apparently the 'horror' genre means cannibalism, hacked off limbs, animals consuming human parts and other just disgusting scenes. During the course of the book, there are flashback stories where each of the characters reflects on their past history. It turns out to be a bit of a con or trick and the guy who organizes this event, locks himself and the writers into some old abandoned theater building in a totally unknown location, with no view of the outside, no ability to escape and a limited supply of food. PLOT SUMMARY: The plot without giving away anything is about a guy who gets a group of aspiring writers to agree to isolate themselves from society for the sake of nurturing their budding literary talents. To be fair, Clive Barker gets very graphic in his stuff, but the difference is he still tries to creep out the reader and there is the usual supernatural elements involved. I do enjoy the horror genre (hence the reason I bought the novel in the first place) and like the usual authors like Stephen King, Clive Barker, Lovecraft and various misc authors who contribute to horror story collections, but I don't care for this type of horror. Maybe the novel picked up from there - but personally by that point - I could care less. DISCLAIMER: I only made it half way through and just gave up when the characters started hacking off their limbs - seriously.

While I'll admit the characters, style and the structure was cleverly written (along with the plot initially), I think the author wasn't so much interested in scaring (or creeping out) the reader as making them simply nauseous.

This was a vile and disgusting read and quite frankly, I hate this book.

Chuck palahniuk haunted audiobook