You know when you read a book all the way through, and you don’t dislike it, but you finish it with a vague feeling of disgruntlement, as if there was something better you could have done with your time? That’s how I feel about the book I just finished. (Chuck Palahniuk’s Damned, if you’re curious.)

What’s worse, I can’t decide if I should pick up the sequel from the library or not. On the one hand, I’m irritated that there was no resolution to Damned. It literally ended “to be continued…” On the other hand, going by reviews on GoodReads, it sounds like the sequel is more of the same, and chances are I will probably finish that book with the same feeling as right now, plus the added irritation that I was silly enough to waste time on it when I should have known better.

I need to find someone who reads Palahniuk and ask if this is representative of his work. If it is, I can cross him off my to-read list permanently.