Haunted

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Content: 17 individuals participate in a secret writing course which takes place in an abandoned theater where they are locked-in for three months. Though they live under harmless conditions at first, they decide to torture themselves in order to sell their story as soon as the experiment is over.
The story alternates between the frame story and a short story by one of the participants.

The atmosphere in the theater is well described. The reader can constantly suffer with the participants and feel the solitude and the frowst of the location. But that is also the reason why I missed some tension from time to time. The short stories on the other hand were always a pleasure to read because they are so different (not only the topics but also their genres) but still have the special style that I expect from something that was written by Chuck Palahniuk. I'm sure that I wont read the whole book again in the next years but I may have a look at some of the short stories again from time to time.

This was the second book by Chuck Palahnkiuk that I have read and it definetely whet my appetite for his other writings.