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                                    What elevates Palahniuk's best novels (e.g., Fight Club) above their shocking premises is his ability to find humanity in deeply grotesque characters. But such generosity of spirit is not evident in his latest, which charts the trials of a group of aspiring writers brought together for a three-month writer's retreat in an abandoned theater. The novel intersperses the writers' poems and short stories with tales of the indignities they heap upon themselves after deciding to turn their lives into a "true-life horror story with a happy ending." They lock themselves in the theater, reasoning that once they're found, they'll all become rich and famous. They raise the stakes of their story by first depriving themselves of phones, and then of food and electricity; eventually they cut off their own fingers, toes and unmentionables before they start dying off and eating each other. Palahniuk tells his story with such blithe disregard for these characters that it's hard not to wish he had dispensed with the novel altogether and published, instead, the 23 short stories that pop up throughout the book. For instance, "Obsolete," about a young girl about to commit state-mandated suicide, and "Slumming," about rich couples who pretend to be homeless, play so deftly with expectations and have an emotional core so surprising that they consistently, powerfully transcend their macabre premises to showcase the heart beating beneath the horrors.                 内容简介
   Haunted is a novel made up of twenty-three horrifying, hilarious, and stomach-churning stories. They're told by people who have answered an ad for a writer's retreat and unwittingly joined a "Survivor"-like scenario where the host withholds heat, power, and food. As the storytellers grow more desperate, their tales become more extreme, and they ruthlessly plot to make themselves the hero of the reality show that will surely be made from their plight. This is one of the most disturbing and outrageous books you'll ever read, one that could only come from the mind of Chuck Palahniuk.     作者简介
   Chuck Palahniuk's six novels are the bestselling Diary, Choke, Lullaby, Fight Club--which was made into a film by director David Fincher--Survivor, and Invisible Monsters. He is also the author of a profile of Portland, Fugitives and Refugees, and the nonfiction collection Stranger Than Fiction. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.     精彩书评
   "Reading a Palahniuk novel is like getting zipped inside a boxer's heavy bag while the author goes to work on you, pounding you until there is nothing left but a big bag of bones and blood and pain." 
——The Miami Herald
"To Palahniuk's credit, there is something here to appall almost every sensibility. The author has a singular knack for coming up with inventive new ways to shock and degrade."
——The New York Post
"Frequently entertaining [and] often appalling... There are paragraphs here-entire pages, in fact-that are as disgusting as anything I've ever read. Truly vivid and harrowing (and often quite funny)."
——Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Summer reading for people who like their lit doused in bodily fluids... Haunted has an anarchic sensibility that hurdles over the top."
——Time Out New York 
"Chuck Palahniuk is one of the most intriguing writers of our time. [Haunted ] is a blend of stories that are among the most horrifying, stomach-churning and mind-blowing tales ever encountered." 
——Tucson Citizen
"Chuck Palahniuk's rightful place is among literary giants. He combines the masculinity of Ernest Hemingway, the satirical bent of Juvenal and the attitude of Lenny Bruce." 
——Greensboro News & Record 
"To Palahniuk's credit, there is something here to appall almost every sensibility. The author has a singular knack for coming up with inventive new ways to shock and degrade." 
——New York Post   
				
				
				
					遗落的航程:一艘幽灵船的绝唱  类型: 历史悬疑/海上冒险  核心主题: 失去的文明、历史的重构、个体在宏大灾难面前的求生挣扎与道德抉择  字数预估: 约1500字  ---  引言:  在时间的迷雾深处,有些故事被海水无情地吞噬,只留下冰冷的传说与锈迹斑斑的残骸。本书并非聚焦于鬼魂徘徊的走廊,亦非围绕着被诅咒的庄园,而是将场景拉向了浩瀚、无边、且比任何古堡都更令人心悸的公海上。这是一部关于一艘失踪已久的探险船的史诗,一趟深入人类知识边界的探寻,以及在极端环境下,人性如何被分解与重塑的深刻描摹。  第一部分:消失的坐标  故事始于1923年的伦敦,一个科学与迷信交织的时代。彼时,对地球深处和未知的海洋的探索仍是驱动探险家们前行的终极动力。  主角伊莱亚斯·范德比尔特,一位天赋异禀但声名狼藉的海洋地理学家,坚信在南大西洋深处,存在着一片尚未被现代地图标记的“静默海域”。他声称,那里保存着一个前哥伦布时期(Pre-Columbian)文明的证据,一个可能比古埃及更古老、掌握着非凡航海技术的文化。  范德比尔特集结了一支由精英科学家、经验丰富的船员和几位怀揣不同目的的资助人组成的团队,登上了他精心改装的破冰探险船——“奥德赛号”(The Odyssey)。这艘船的名字本身就预示着漫长而充满磨难的旅程。  船上的气氛从一开始就潜藏着不安。资助人之一,来自德国的工业巨头卡尔·冯·里希特,他资助的真正目的并非科学,而是追逐传说中那片海域蕴藏的稀有矿产。船长西蒙·霍尔,一个恪守旧日海军信条的老派人物,对范德比尔特的“异端”理论嗤之以鼻,他只相信罗盘和海图,不信模糊的星象学。  “奥德赛号”起航了。最初的航行是顺遂的,他们穿过风暴带,抵达了位于南纬40度、西经20度的“已知世界的尽头”。然而,当他们进入范德比尔特所指引的坐标时,一切都变了。  指南针开始疯狂旋转,无线电信号被一种低沉的、无法识别的频率干扰。天气没有突变,但空气中弥漫着一种令人窒息的沉重感,仿佛海洋本身正在屏住呼吸。船员们开始报告怪异的现象:深海的回声探测仪捕捉到巨大、规则的结构体在水下移动,但它们不像是自然形成的冰山或礁石。  第二部分:静默海域的法则  进入“静默海域”后,“奥德赛号”遭遇了前所未有的挑战。他们发现自己被困在一个由异常洋流和终年不散的浓雾构成的迷宫中。  范德比尔特的研究笔记开始出现疯狂的涂鸦,他坚信他们已经进入了一个被时间遗忘的物理空间。他根据古老文献的残片,推断出这片海域的洋流是人为操控的,目的是为了保护海域中心——“镜湖”。  随着船只的深入,船员们的精神状态急剧恶化。不是因为饥饿或缺水,而是源于“深度焦虑”——一种对无限空间的恐惧被放大到极致的心理崩溃。他们开始看到水下有光线的闪烁,形状像是巨大的、沉睡的建筑物的轮廓。  在一次例行深潜作业中,他们发现了第一个确凿的证据:一块由一种从未被地球科学界记录的、类似黑曜石的物质构成的石碑。石碑上雕刻的文字,被船上的语言学家破译出寥寥数语:“我们选择了沉没,以求永恒的宁静。”  冯·里希特为了争夺石碑和控制权,与范德比尔特爆发了致命冲突。船上的秩序开始瓦解,船员们分裂成忠于科学探索的“理想主义者”和只关心财富与生存的“实用主义者”。  第三部分:知识的重量与代价  “奥德赛号”最终没有找到传说中的黄金或失落的城市,他们找到的,是远比物质财富更沉重的东西:一个无法被现代文明接受的真相。  范德比尔特发现,“镜湖”并非一个地理位置,而是一个巨大的、处于休眠状态的信息储存库。这片海域的异常现象,是这个古老文明为了阻止其知识被误用而设置的防御系统。  在最后的几章中,故事聚焦于船上幸存的几人,他们必须做出一个决定:是冒着被这片海域彻底吞噬的风险,将这些颠覆性的知识带回现代世界,还是像那些古人一样,选择让秘密永远沉睡。  船长霍尔,这位曾经最顽固的怀疑论者,在目睹了海洋深处那非人类的智慧后,他的世界观彻底崩塌。他必须在履行保护船员的职责和守护一个可能毁灭现有文明的秘密之间做出选择。  故事的高潮不是海难,而是对“发现”本身的伦理拷问。当“奥德赛号”在一次罕见的洋流逆转中,奇迹般地脱离了“静默海域”的控制时,他们带回来的只有残破的设备、被恐惧扭曲的记忆,以及一块他们不敢再直视的、能够揭示宇宙秩序的碎片。  尾声:沉默的归来  “奥德赛号”的残骸最终被一艘渔船发现,船上仅有三人幸存,他们被送回文明社会。他们对这次航行的叙述,被官方定性为集体幻觉与恶性营养不良导致的神经错乱。范德比尔特失踪,里希特被判定死亡。  本书以档案的碎片、幸存者的精神分析报告以及打捞上来的、无法辨认的残骸记录收尾。它留给读者一个悬而未决的问题:那些沉默的海域下,究竟埋藏着什么,是值得人类冒着自我毁灭的风险去探索的终极奥秘,还是一份只有遗忘才能守护的和平契约?  《遗落的航程》是一部探讨人类探索欲望的界限,以及某些知识是否注定应该被历史遗弃的深刻作品。它将带领读者进行一场精神上而非地理上的远航,去面对比深海更广阔的,人心的幽暗与光芒。