After
reading Dan Brown’s Inferno I had to
read Dante’s Divine Comedy: I got through Inferno and half way through
the second section, Purgatorio, but then Stalled out.
I am not
sure why I picked up the book Damned
by Chuck Palahniuk, but it turned out to be a parody of Dante’s Inferno. Except, instead of a Pilgrim, the traveler
through Hell it is a dead, thirteen-year-old, precocious girl.
The travel
is spiced with sexual innuendos and some outright outrageous sexually specific scenes
(not pedophilia.) There are demons,
and rivers and lakes containing various bodily fluids. Not a read for the squeamish.
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| The travelers |
A strange
book. It has hooked me. I will
read the sequel: Doomed.
the Ol'Buzzard
