Wow, I did not expect the first answer to be what I was going to pick, but I agree with @essieness, Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk was god-awful. I also loved the Fight Club movie and I would not be adverse to reading something else by him, but here’s the thing about that book. I’m not squeamish, I’m not “turned off” by shock value, none of that bothers me. But essentially, I did not get the motivations of the characters (and don’t just say they were driven to it by a force inside the house). Essentially, the whole book was a series of one person or group of people fucks themselves over royally, then another person or group of persons tries to outdo the first group, and it just escalates. There was no reason for any of this to occur, not laid out and not something you could read between the lines. It took an amazing leap of faith to understand the motivations of these people, one so large that I simply couldn’t do it. It just seemed poorly crafted, like saying, it happened because I SAY it happened. I can willingly suspend disbelief, but there’s got to be SOME motivation behind the actions of the characters. This book was pointless, an exercise in shock value for the sake of shock value…at least someone like Marilyn Manson has something to say when he dresses up in a Nazi uniform and wipes his ass on the American flag. This book was like Bob put a fork in his eye, so Melinda put a fork in each eye, then not to be outdone, Francine grabbed all 3 forks with eyeballs still attached, shoved them up her snatch and fed them to Frank. I mean, WTF? No character development, nothing, just a bunch of random masochists, not worth your time.